OK, we’re definitely taking this with a grain of salt here.
Taylor Swift and Blake Lively have been friends a really long time. Tay is godmother to one of Blake’s kids for crying out loud! Could there really be bad blood??
We’re well aware there are those who think Taylor is distancing herself from her bestie amid the Justin Baldoni business. We’ve heard a lot of the speculation out there, much of which we’ve also heard from our sources is overblown. Yes, Blake isn’t necessarily winning the tug-of-war for the public’s favor right now. More seem to believe the director’s version of what happened on the set of It Ends With Us — largely due to the receipts he’s dropping. But their bond is so strong! We mean, Tay is still taking Blake to the Super Bowl… isn’t she??
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Well, a new TMZ report says different. Their “well-connected source close to Taylor” tells them the Blank Space singer is none too happy with the fact she’s gotten wrapped up in this controversy — all because Blake wanted to use her name.
For those who haven’t been following the legal drama, Justin claimed Blake invited him over for a meeting about some script pages she’d taken a pass at. It was at her NYC penthouse apartment where her husband Ryan Reynolds could also let him know her pages were good. Oh, and while Justin was there, Taylor freakin’ Swift happened to drop by, just in time to tell him how much she LOVED Blake’s dialogue, too. He felt the whole thing was a setup, a suspicion which was only enflamed when Blake wrote him a vaguely threatening text message referring to her powerful show business friends as “monsters” and “dragons” from Game Of Thrones:
“If you ever get around to watching Game of Thrones, you’ll appreciate that I’m Khaleesi, and like her, I happen to have a few dragons. For better or worse, but usually for better. Because my dragons also protect those I fight for. So really we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. You will too, I can promise you.”
WILD, right? Like, who talks like that IRL??
OK, so TMZ‘s insider says Taylor had no idea she was helping Blake out with some meeting. The pop star was just asked to come over to a friend’s house — at a specific time — for a hangout and showed up. Nothing weird. But in retrospect it does kind of look like her BFF used her, knowing she’d gush about her talent. Since that’s what friends do. The insider says all Tay really said was how excited she was to see the movie because of that Blake told her. But her presence was still… a lot, as we’ve seen in many videos of folks meeting her for the first time.
The source also says Tay came right at the end of the meeting, so the overlap could have been a coincidence. But they claim Taylor no longer believes that — but rather thinks her friend did use her star power to intimidate the director.
We suppose the email is what sent Tay over the edge here. The source says she found it so “weird” and confusing that Blake would refer to her as her “dragon”:
“It’s weird to say that about a friend.”
No kidding! But there’s more…
This insider says Taylor has now learned Blake has been using her name for a long time now, including telling another actress that Taylor “cast her.” WHAT??
Innerestingly another source corroborated this with the outlet — especially the dragon part, saying Taylor was NOT happy about being referred to as her pet/weapon/threat. But this one assured that Blake has already apologized, and they had an honest convo and a good cry — and they’ve gotten past it already. Because that’s what friends do, too.
So when a Blake source told them she is confident the relationship is “not strained” — well, both can be true. Hence our willingness to see this fight claim as a possibility. Because we do NOT think these two are estranged, not at all.
What do YOU think, Perezcious readers? Do y’all buy that Tay got mad about the dragon email? And that they’ve already gotten over it?
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