Swift and Lively have been best friends for years. Swift wrote songs using Lively and Ryan Reynolds’s children’s names. Lively became an Eras Tour regular and supported Swift at football games when the singer began dating Travis Kelce. And their regularly-scheduled girls’ nights fed our celebrity friendship dreams for quite some time.

Justin Baldoni legal battle, an alleged email from August 2024 shows publicists mentioning "major concern" about Lively's "activating" pal Taylor Swift's passionate fan base.