The Brett Cooper Show
Taylor Swift's Text Prove Blake Lively is Mean and a Liar 🎶 | Episode 122
22 Jan 2026
Chapter 1: What recent texts involving Taylor Swift and Blake Lively have surfaced?
Manipulation, inflated egos, smear campaigns, and deception. Welcome to another day in Hollywood. This has been such an entertaining week. This week is just chock full of stories that are coming over from 2024, 2025, stories that I cannot believe we are still discussing in 2026. You people involved, you should be embarrassed, but also, as you guys know, I'm not complaining.
I am, in fact, enjoying myself. Thank you for giving me content as a distraction from the world. Anyway, I really cannot believe that we are still talking about a movie that really was not that great. Like Sony, you wanted publicity, you wanted the movie to do well. We are still talking about it ends with us over a year and a half later.
Because more evidence from this buffet of lawsuits between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni just keeps pouring out. And the most recent drop of court documents just continue to prove that Blake Lively and all of her friends are mean and liars and all they are
Okay, driving into that, if you want to see ad-free versions of these episodes, if you want behind the scenes content and farm vlogs and travel vlogs, all of that can be found at my subscription site, Cooper Confidential. Go check it out at cooperconfidential.com. All right, so let's just dive into this. Let's rewind a little bit. Let's go back to August of 2024.
when we began this journey together. That was a whole other YouTube channel ago. It ends with us starring Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni was in theaters.
Blake Lively on social media was getting run through because of her promotion of her new Blake Lively haircare line, basically trying to pull off a Timu Barbenheimer with her husband's movie doing this floral girly pop promotion about a domestic violence movie. Then you have Justin Baldoni, the lead actor and the director who is nowhere to be found. in all of this press.
He's not at the premiere, which actually we learn later on, he was in the basement of the premiere, not allowed out, but he's on his own. He's not partaking in the florals and the silliness, and he's promoting this movie by bringing awareness to domestic violence and trying to shed light on survivors and what this story means to them. And the internet picked up tension.
They weren't happy with the way that Blake Lively was promoting the film, they obviously saw that Justin Baldoni was not there, and the internet sleuths dove in.
So now let's fast forward to December of 2024 when a bombshell New York Times article drops detailing this alleged smear campaign by Justin Baldoni against Blake Lively, how she endured sexual harassment on this set, and that when she brought it to light and tried to address it with Justin Baldoni and his team, his team, his PR team, they turned the internet against her.
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Chapter 2: How did Blake Lively's promotional tactics backfire during the film's release?
She is now slinging all of these attacks on how awful Justin Baldoni was to work with when executives at Sony are calling you a terrorist. But guys, there is more. Ange was not the only Sony executive who voiced their complaints. This is from the new filings from Baldoni's team. Quote, Sony executives privately observed that the negative publicity around Lively was driven by her own conduct.
So this is as the movie is rolling out. Executive VP and Chief Communications Officer wrote, she orchestrated all of this drama in a totally unsavvy and amateur way, basically threatened Sony, and now is mad that it backfired on her. So even they know, she is mad that it backfired on her.
So she has reason then to go out to the press, to go into the courts, to try to stir up something, allegedly, allegedly, to make sure that she still ends up on top. Sony's CEO even observed that although Lively didn't deserve the backlash, she did bring it on herself by refusing to listen to advice and by selling her products, AKA her haircare line. Sony president then said she did it to herself.
If she just let him come to the premiere or didn't make all of the cast unfollow him or kick him off the movie, listen to that, didn't make the cast unfollow him, kick him off of the movie, and did what everyone else has done in show business for time and memorial, which is to protect the show, then none of the sleuthing would have happened. The hair sale at the same time was epic level stupid.
She wouldn't listen. She knows better. So Sony themselves is saying that she was a problem, that she was turning people against Baldoni, that she allegedly went so far as asking them to unfollow him.
That she was the reason that Justin Baldoni, on his own production that he owns the rights to, that he started working on years ago, that he wrote and directed and starred in, the reason why he was in the basement at his own movie's premiere, even they knew. That's damning. Like, that is so incredibly damning.
Now, to be fair, I also want to say, Sony was also not thrilled with Baldoni, because concerns had been raised on the set, but it wasn't because of sexual harassment. It wasn't because he was some kind of pervert. The Sony exec in question said, it fell into the category of unprepared, indecisive, and inexperienced. That that is what they were told about Baldoni.
And then the opposing counsel asks, those are the only issues that you recall her raising to you at any time regarding Mr. Baldoni? And then she says she had other criticisms. And then they go, okay, well, what were they? And she says it was too loose on the set. What else? He was too sensitive. Too sensitive? Yes. Anything else? I'm sure, but I can't recall the specificity of that.
So he was too loose, that could be, you know, that's vague, that could mean a lot of different things, but he was unprepared, indecisive, inexperienced, too sensitive, but not a predator, not a pervert. They said that that and anything else that was brought up that they can't really remember, that that was not enough for them to step in. that none of it was enough for them to call in HR.
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Chapter 3: What allegations have emerged regarding Justin Baldoni's treatment of Blake Lively?
She was not just a white knight trying to save the other women from this awful director. She was allegedly actively trying to take it over. And the story was different every single time she told it. For example, take this email that she sent to a playwright friend in July of 2024, before the movie came out.
This friend is asking for advice, notes on a script that she had sent Blake, and she responds with the excuse, I was filming one movie, and then when the studio took the film from the director of the movie I was in post on and asked me to take it over, so I have been re-editing the entire film. I brought on my own composer, the whole team had to redo everything.
I just finished the final sound mix in LA yesterday, flying back now to do final color time this week, and then I'm out from under this. This movie comes out in a month. It's diving into the press. She's saying she's hoping that she can come up for air after all of that. Well, that's not the story. That Sony has told.
It seems more like, you know, the words I would use are bullied and strong-armed and that maybe Sony just didn't care. They just wanted it all to end with us buying tickets to the movie and shutting up so that they did not have to deal with this like high school drama that they felt was going on on this set.
Anyway, to further back this up, less than 10 days after the premiere, she and Colleen Hoover, who was the writer of the book series, were joking over text about doing the adaptation for one of the other books. That Baldoni and his production company had the option and have the rights for. She knows that. And this is what happened.
In this text thread, they start off by mocking Justin Baldoni's viral proposal video that he made for his wife many years ago, like before he was even like a director or anything like that. He was on Jane the Virgin. This beautiful proposal that he did for his wife, Emily, went viral. And they start talking about that. And they send it to a mutual friend of theirs.
This is Colleen, a friend, and Blake in this group chat. And Colleen says, this video is going to be mine and Blake's inspiration for It Starts With Us. And then the friend responds, he's a sociopath. And Blake says, actually, and a narcissist. Justin Baldoni, as an individual, he might not be everyone's cup of tea. You know, he is very mushy-gushy.
You see that through his social media, the projects that he does, the way that he speaks, the proposal video, how he is with his wife. You know, he is a feminist ally. He had a feminist podcast. He's very spiritual. He has a man bun. Maybe he's like really into himself, but let's face it, Most of Hollywood is all of those things, especially the directors. The directors are very into themselves.
So are you, Blake. Anyway, that alone, his personality, it does not mean that you have the grounds to allegedly steal a project that he and his company has paid for, that they have the options for, and yet Blake and Colleen are preemptively talking about what they will do with this next film when they allegedly take it over. But guys, it didn't even end there.
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Chapter 4: What role did Taylor Swift play in the unfolding drama between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni?
Now those were just some of the friends that we know she spoke to thanks to this court filing. We also know that Hugh Jackman was literally there supporting her, working on Deadpool Wolverine with Ryan. He was at the premiere.
She had Bradley, who is dating her friend Gigi Hadid, come to this like friends and family screening that she had trying to convince Sony that everyone loved her version of the film instead of Justin. So that's how he was involved. But we're still missing the biggest dragon of all.
And it's why Brian Freeman, who's Justin Baldoni's attorney, fought so hard to get these depositions, to get these subpoenas done. It was Taylor Swift. It was the mother of all dragons. None of these industry friends are bigger than Taylor Swift, who, as you all know, has been so adamant over the last year and a half that she was not involved.
In fact, she even went so far as to claim that she was a victim of this lawfare and that she began to distance herself from Blake. One article reads, as per Rob Shutter's Shutter Scoop report, Taylor Swift and Blake Lively, quote, haven't spoken in nearly a year. A source explained, Taylor feels betrayed. Blake knows that she crossed a line by getting Taylor involved in all of this.
A Hollywood insider added that the musician felt used when her name appeared in legal documents. And then these rumors and sources aside, her actual spokesperson said that Baldoni's move to depose the singer is intended to, quote, draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case.
The rep, who noted that the only connection the singer has with the film is permitting the use of my tears ricochet in the film and in the trailer, added that Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie. She was not involved in any casting or creative decisions. She did not score the film. She never saw an edit or made any notes on the film.
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Chapter 5: How did Blake Lively attempt to take control of the film production?
All right, now briefly back to Taylor Swift and that statement. There are a few lies there that I should remind you of. First, that she was not involved in any casting when we know for a fact that she helped pick the actress who played young Blake. The young actress confirmed this, as did Justin. She told me Taylor Swift helped her get the role, like signed off on her audition.
Well, I had brought in, I was casting and I had actually brought in and showed her casting tape to Blake and Taylor and they were both like, yes, her. And that's a true story.
So we know that what her spokesperson is saying is not the whole truth. Now, secondly, she says that she never saw a cut of the film. Now maybe, giving her the benefit of the doubt, maybe she didn't see the entirety of the film, a full cut, but Blake did send Taylor the trailer and specifically asked her for notes and even asked her to show it to Travis.
And that wasn't just innocent friend excitement, like I'm so excited about this movie, watch the trailer, do you love it? No, it was all done under the umbrella of taking the project from Justin Baldoni and getting it all done Blake's way. Just listen, this is what Blake writes to Taylor. I've finally gotten to get in the edit, alone, no Justin.
I'm gonna make this movie great and successful if it is the last thing I do. They've sent me a trailer. I'd love to know what you think. I can change it. I'm just curious your reaction as somebody who knows pop culture better than anyone and also as someone who's read the book. She goes on and she says, song variable aside, they're talking about using Taylor's song in the trailer.
Would love to know what you think. Please show Trav too. Would love his opinion also. And then she sends the link. To which Taylor responded, oh my God, I just saw the above text. Oh my God, it's amazing, I'm so sorry I was in a daze, a lavender haze, maybe I didn't see the first text. And then she says, wow, I love how they used the song, her song.
And then she says, welcome to Hollywood, Justin. And then they go on and they joke about how Justin was quote unquote stupid for agreeing to use Taylor's song in the trailer because in their words, using Taylor's song would give Blake, her best friend, power through Taylor.
Taylor writes, he would be like no Taylor Swift in the trailer because that gives you more power over the film, that's your ally. not his. And then Blake responds and says, get yourself a best friend who thinks like the actual Roman Empire. And then Taylor responds and says, his misogyny runs so deep that he thinks women are incapable of winning chess matches or making long game power plays.
It's ironic considering where we are now. And then Blake responds and says, you are so right and so wickedly smart to call it. I should have run from your music. I never thought about that. But holy shit, how stupid. This was his only shot at having the appearance of an upper hand.
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Chapter 6: What evidence suggests Blake Lively's premeditated actions against Justin Baldoni?
I'll send you the scene. You don't have to read it, of course. He's a clown and thinks he's a writer now and got this rewrite and told me he appreciates my passion. That's So the scene that she wants Taylor to read and celebrate and applaud is the scene that Blake Lively rewrote. She's already trying to get involved before the cameras even started rolling.
So having the greatest living storyteller gassing up Taylor Swift, unknowingly echo to him how much you love what we're doing, giving him credit as if he wrote them with me, will go such a long way. And then interestingly, she says, you dug a movie out of a grave already once for me. I wanna know what movie that was. She then sends the script.
Chapter 7: What insights do Sony executives provide about Blake Lively's behavior on set?
And then Taylor responds and says, I'll do anything for you. And then Blake responds and says, I love you, thank you, text me when you're on your way, and then she'll have her assistant or somebody go down and meet her. And then after that, a now infamous meeting occurred.
The one that we read about in previous court filings where Baldoni said that he felt like Taylor Swift was ambushing him and pressuring him at Blake Lively's apartment.
Because Taylor Swift, you know, just somehow shows up, she's coming over to hang out at their house, she accidentally runs into Justin, and at Blake's request, attempts to manipulate him, objective, this is what's happening, manipulate him into doing what Blake wants, to get this rewrite into the movie. Now a few hours later, Blake sends her this message. You were so epically heroic today.
I recapped every moment to Ryan, I kept remembering stuff. You making shit up about me and lenses and referring to yourself as my doll. This is so weird. This relationship is so weird. This clown falling for it all, but also resisting it. You are the world's absolutely greatest friend ever. I won the lottery. And then Taylor writes back. I mean, it's literally like they're 14 years old.
in the world and you like me. Like ladies, what are we doing here? Anyway, the point in me bringing this up, it was before the movie even started being filmed. Now I have so many more questions. Like what on earth are we missing here? Like what did poor Justin Baldoni do to warrant this treatment from Blake Lively? before they even got on set together.
She can't argue that it was him, you know, barging into her trailer while she was breastfeeding. We already know that she texted and invited him in. She can't even argue that it was her character's birth scene that was uncomfortable because they had not even started filming. Maybe it was his personality. Maybe she marked him off from the start. She thought that she was better suited for this job.
She was angry that he got this project, resented that he was able to take on this project that she so desperately wanted creative control over and then went into this plan and spun this narrative about him. I don't know. I have no idea. what started it. Based on these next texts that she sent to Taylor, it sure seems like there was a lot of resentment.
She said, his entire brand is disassembling toxic masculinity. He monetizes it. He does Ted talks, but he says that to you. We don't know what they say. Not only is it so rude, but it's untrue. The thing that enraged me is that you are in an absolute league of your own in being both the most popular artists alive and one of all time, but also the most respected and awarded.
And then she goes on and says, I've been raging ever since. Even though I know it all comes from what you said perfectly, he just so wants to be in the room but has to act like he doesn't. I see it, I understand that it's opposite day with him.
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