Blake Vigorous Calls Out Justin Baldoni’s New Transfer Aimed At Taylor Swift

In a brand new submitting, the actress argued that her “It Ends With Us” co-star waited too lengthy to make this transfer, noting that he failed to take action throughout the earlier months and that the alleged timing of the deposition falls after the shut of discovery.

Justin Baldoni and Blake Vigorous are at the moment embroiled in a sexual harassment lawsuit, which Vigorous filed in opposition to Baldoni following their work collectively on the movie.

Lower than 24 hours after Justin Baldoni’s staff filed paperwork claiming Taylor Swift had agreed to take a seat for a deposition, Blake Vigorous fired again with a response, urging the court docket to grant the actor any extra time to depose the singer.

In her personal submitting on September 12, Vigorous’s authorized staff argued that Baldoni had delayed too lengthy in looking for the deposition, declaring that “discovery has been ongoing for greater than six months.”

They additional claimed Baldoni’s legal professionals didn’t attain out to Swift’s representatives till earlier this week, and even when she had agreed, the proposed dates of October 20–25 fall outdoors the court docket’s discovery deadline.

“At any level over the previous six months, [Baldoni’s team] might have observed a deposition, served a subpoena, and negotiated an agreeable time and place for this deposition. However they didn’t,” learn the submitting, per Us Weekly.

It additional learn, “Now,  lengthy after dates and areas for all different celebration and third-party witnesses have been negotiated and agreed to [they have] come to this Courtroom and demand the proper to take this deposition — and this deposition alone — greater than three weeks after the shut of reality discovery and ten days after the events are resulting from alternate knowledgeable stories.”

In her submitting, Vigorous additionally blasted Baldoni, arguing that his push for a deposition at this stage confirmed a “lack of diligence” and a disregard for Swift’s “privateness and schedule.”

She additional claimed that the actor supposed to make use of the deposition to create a “media spectacle on this matter,” seemingly referencing how Baldoni and his staff dragged Swift into the lawsuit by repeatedly mentioning her in court docket paperwork and issuing a subpoena to depose her months earlier than however later withdrawing it.

“Such a displaying could be anticipated for any deposition occurring after the shut of discovery, particularly so for a 3rd celebration, however is much more related for this third celebration, whom [Baldoni’s team] have constantly sought to make use of to generate a media spectacle on this matter,” the submitting additionally learn.

Swift’s lawyer has since slammed the declare from Baldoni’s camp that she has agreed to be deposed in his ongoing authorized feud together with her former pal, Vigorous.

In response to the Day by day Mail, the lawyer famous that the singer will solely take part if compelled by regulation to take action, stressing that she has no “materials function” within the former co-stars’ court docket case.

A letter from Swift’s authorized staff learn partly: “Additional, my shopper didn’t comply with a deposition, but when she is compelled right into a deposition, we suggested (after first listening to in regards to the deposition simply three days in the past) that her schedule would accommodate the time required in the course of the week of October 20 if the events have been capable of work out their disputes.”

Forward of the trial in Could 2026, Baldoni’s protection has been struggling some losses, with one of many newest being a choose’s resolution to chop Vigorous’s deposition from the court docket docket, per Deadline.

“The Wayfarer Events’ attachment of all the, practically 300-page deposition—after citing solely two pages of it within the Letter—served no correct litigation function and as an alternative seems to have been supposed to burden Vigorous (and consequently, the Courtroom) and to ask public hypothesis and scandal,” stated Choose Lewis Liman, refrencing Baldoni and his fellow defendants that make up the Wayfarer Events.

Liman had made the order in response to Vigorous’s movement to maintain her deposition sealed, wherein he additionally claimed that the Wayfarer Events failed to indicate all the deposition was related to their case, nor might they.

He added, The conclusion is inescapable that the Wayfarer Events filed gratuitous quantities of irrelevant pages in order that, if Vigorous moved for continued sealing of the irrelevant pages, the Wayfarer Events might then use Vigorous’s response for their very own public-relations functions.”