Blake Lively allegedly threatened to leak embarrassing private texts from bestie Taylor Swift unless the pop star agreed to publicly back the actress in her feud with co-star Justin Baldoni, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal.

The explosive revelation appears in a legal letter filed Wednesday by Baldoni’s lawyers, in response to Lively’s request to quash their subpoena to the singer.

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The court filing alleges that the Gossip Girl alum had tried to pressure Swift, 35, to issue a public statement in support of her and urged her to delete text messages between them during her escalating legal battle with Baldoni, 41.

The latest twist sheds further light on the collapse of Lively and Swift’s once-close friendship – which has gone cold amid the actress’s high-stakes lawsuit involving the actor.

Since then, both Swift and Lively have been subpoenaed for communications about the case, despite the superstar’s attempts to distance herself from the furor.

In the letter to the judge obtained by DailyMail.com, Baldoni’s legal team, led by Bryan Freedman, hit back at Lively’s ‘wrong’ claims that the proposed subpoena to Swift ‘seeks irrelevant documents’.

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Blake Lively allegedly threatened bestie Taylor Swift with the release of embarrassing text messages if she failed to release a public statement in support of her, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal

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Lively allegedly demanded Swift, whose hit song is featured on the soundtrack of It Ends With Us, to publicly side with her in her ongoing feud with co-star Justin Baldoni, according to a legal letter

Freedman argued that it aims to obtain information ‘relating to witness tampering and evidence spoliation’ – specifically that Lively had attempted ‘coerce’ Swift into publicly siding with her.

According to the letter, Baldoni’s attorneys received information that ‘(i) Ms. Lively requested that Taylor Swift delete their text messages’ – which, according to inside sources, may have contained details from over a decade of friendship, relationships, and private confidences.

It also claims Lively’s lawyer Michael Gottlieb had contacted Swift’s attorney and demanded ‘that Ms. Swift release a statement of support for Ms. Lively, intimating that, if Ms. Swift refused to do so, private text messages of a personal nature in Ms. Lively’s possession would be released’.

In response, Swift’s reps purportedly addressed Lively’s ‘inappropriate and apparently extortionate threats in at least one written communication’ sent to Gottlieb, according to Freedman.

‘It is those communications that [Baldoni’s team] seeks to obtain by way of subpoena, as they would evidence an attempt to intimidate and coerce a percipient witness in this litigation’, the letter states.

Swift, whose hit song ‘My Tears Ricochet’ was featured on the soundtrack of the 2024 film It Ends With Us, was pulled into the rollercoaster saga earlier this year when Baldoni filed a $400million countersuit accusing Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds of defamation.

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The bombshell revelation sheds further light on the collapse of Lively and Swift’s friendship – which has gone cold amid the actress’s ongoing legal battle with Baldoni

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Lively and Swift’s friendship soured after the popstar got dragged into the actress’s lawsuit against Baldoni, her co-star and director in the It Ends With Us movie adaptation of the popular Colleen Hoover novel

Explosives text messages from Baldoni’s complaint revealed Lively had referred to the superstar singer and her husband, as ‘my dragons’ in a bid to intimidate him over ill-fated flick It Ends With Us.

Since then, Swift has reportedly been trying to distance herself from the scandal as well as her friendship with Lively.

Those efforts have included icing Lively out of her inner circle while boyfriend Travis Kelce has unfollowed Reynolds on Instagram.

The new revelation marks yet another bombshell twist in a case that has dragged in multiple A-listers and resulted in some legal zingers – among them Lively’s dragon claim.

The mom-of-four has also been accused of failing to read the novel on which the movie is based until well after filming started and forcing Baldoni and his family to sit in the basement during the premiere due to her refusal to be in the same room as him.

On top of that, some of her allegations have begun to look dubious such as the claim that Baldoni had nuzzled her neck and told her ‘you smell so good’ during a dancing scene.

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Last week, DailyMail.com learned that Swift was left devastated when she was subpoenaed as a witness in the case between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni

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Up until this year, the two had been close friends, with Swift being the godmother to Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s three eldest children: James, Inez, and Betty

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Taylor is reportedly furious about being dragged into the case and has not been photographed with Lively for months. The two girlfriends had been pictured on double dates with their respective partners, Travis Kelce and Ryan Reynolds (seen in October) in the months leading up to the drama

Although the mom-of-four claimed it had been filmed with microphones off, DailyMail.com obtained raw footage that showed the sound was on and that the conversation had instead been about the scent of Lively’s fake tan.

Attention has now turned to who else could be subpoenaed in the case, with Reynolds odds-on to have his communications scrutinized by Baldoni’s team.

Last week, speculation arose around Swift and Reynolds’ friend Hugh Jackman with reports saying that they too are facing a legal grilling.

Swift is reportedly furious over being dragged into the case and has not been photographed with Lively for months.

Last week, her boyfriend Travis Kelce unfollowed Reynolds – who is currently celebrating his soccer team Wrexham’s promotion to the English Football League Championship – in yet another sign that relations between the two couples have cooled.

Although Kelce is unlikely to be slapped with a subpoena, one person who has already got one is publicist Stephanie Jones who is also being sued by Baldoni after she allegedly turned over a phone belonging to his publicist and her former employee, Jennifer Abel.

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Swift – pictured with Blake in January 2024 – was dragged into the mix earlier this year, when Baldoni filed a countersuit accusing Lively and her husband Ryan Reynolds of defamation

The messages on the phone between Abel and crisis PR Melissa Nathan were later used as the basis for Lively’s claims of a smear campaign, although Baldoni’s team hit back saying the texts were selectively edited and released the conversations in full.

Jones denied handing over the texts as a favor, arguing in court papers that she turned the device over only after receiving a subpoena last October.

But her claims led to fresh embarrassment for Lively after DailyMail.com revealed the subpoena had arisen from a ‘sham’ lawsuit filed by her company Vanzan against anonymous Does 1-10 which was dropped before the 37-year-old’s sex assault case was filed.