In private messages now exposed in court, Blake Lively paints a portrait of an artist pushed to the edge. She describes stepping in to rewrite, restructure, and effectively direct It Ends With Us herself, as chaos on set left her feeling abandoned and unsafe. Turning to Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, she wasn’t chasing clout; she was asking fellow survivors of Hollywood battles to help her salvage something honest from an experience she says “nearly killed” her.
Her outreach to Taylor Swift revealed a different wound: the fear that speaking about her own crisis had made her emotionally distant from a close friend. Swift’s reply—loving but candid—underscored how stress can warp even the safest relationships. Now, with Lively’s harassment lawsuit against Justin Baldoni heading to trial in May 2026, those emails and texts are no longer just cries for help. They’re evidence, testimony, and a raw record of what it costs to fight back in public.