


Taylor Swift is reportedly distancing herself from bestie Blake Lively after being referenced in Justin Baldoni’s $400 million lawsuit against the actress.
According to TMZ insiders, the pop superstar feels her longtime friend manipulated her and leveraged her fame to gain an upper hand on Baldoni amid feuding while making their film “It Ends With Us.”
Lively sued Baldoni in December, accusing the actor-director of sexual harassment on the set and a retaliatory smear campaign. Baldoni countersued weeks later, accusing Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and publicist Leslie Sloane of defamation and civil extortion.
Baldoni refers to a heated meeting at Lively’s New York City penthouse where they allegedly argued over rewrites to the script. Baldoni says Swift walked in unexpectedly toward the end of the meeting and sang Lively’s praises, a move he believes was orchestrated to put pressure on him to “comply” with Lively’s demands.
Subsequent text messages included in the filing show Lively referred to the Grammy winner as one of her “dragons.” Baldoni interpreted the text to be a veiled threat that she’d unleash the star power of her “gorgeous monsters” if he didn’t oblige.
The insider also claims Swift was unaware she’d be arriving during the meeting and only showed up “at the time Blake told her to, not knowing anyone else would be there,” the outlet reported.
Prince documentary won’t be released
A documentary about Prince has been canceled. Netflix, which had planned to stream the Ezra Edelman directed project, released a statement Thursday, along with the estate for the late singer, that the project wouldn’t move forward.
“The Prince Estate and Netflix have come to a mutual agreement that will allow the estate to develop and produce a new documentary featuring exclusive content from Prince’s archive,” the statement reads. “As a result, the Netflix documentary will not be released.”
Soon after, the Prince X account posted a video with the message: “The Vault Has Been Freed.”
It was reported last year that representatives of the late singer’s estate were not happy with what they viewed as “dramatic” factual inaccuracies and “sensationalized” portions of Prince’s life as portrayed in the six-part documentary. The singer died in April 2016. He was 57.
Kelsea Ballerini ends concert because of flu
Kelsea Ballerini cut a concert in Buffalo, N.Y., short after six songs, but don’t worry: She’ll be back. She was performing at the KeyBank Center Thursday night, two days after she struggled to get through a performance in Detroit due to the flu. Ballerini’s team alet the audience know the show was ending early and would be rescheduled.
— From wire reports