Blake Lively skips Super Bowl 2025 after Taylor Swift felt ‘used’ by her in Justin Baldoni lawsuit

Is there “Bad Blood” after all?

Blake Lively did not attend the 2025 Super Bowl with Taylor Swift after the pop star felt “used” by her longtime friend over being dragged into the actress’ ongoing legal battle with Justin Baldoni.

Swift, 35, watched her boyfriend Travis Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs take on the Philadelphia Eagles at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans on Sunday, but Lively, 37, was not in her star-studded suite with Ice Spice, Ashley Avignone and the Haim sisters.

Taylor Swift and Blake Lively (seen here in 2024) did not attend the 2025 Super Bowl together. Getty Images Instead, Ice Spice and the Haim sisters were among the stars in Swift’s suite Sunday (as shown here). AP

Swift and Lively attended the Super Bowl together last year and watched the Chiefs beat the San Francisco 49ers from their VIP suite alongside Spice, Lana Del Rey and other pals.

The “Gossip Girl” alum’s absence this year comes amid her legal battle with her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director, Baldoni, which Swift may soon be dragged into.

Baldoni’s legal rep recently suggested that the Grammy winner could be deposed because she was present for a meeting mentioned in the “Jane the Virgin” alum’s $400 million lawsuit against Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds.

Swift and Lively attended last year’s Super Bowl together (as seen here) with Ice Spice and Lana Del Rey. Getty Images The longtime friends (seen here in 2024) cheered on Swift’s boyfriend, Travis Kelce, and his team, the Kansas City Chiefs, at the time. Getty Images

After Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni, 41, accusing him of sexual harassment and retaliation in December 2024, he claimed in his own filing that he felt she had attempted to intimidate him by inviting Swift to their meeting.

He also claimed she leveraged her friend’s star power, having allegedly referred to the singer and Reynolds as her “dragons” in texts to the actor-director as she pushed him to accept her proposed rewrite to one of their film’s scenes.

“If you ever get around to watching ‘Game of Thrones,’ you’ll appreciate that I’m Khaleesi, and like her, I happen to have a few dragons,” read Lively’s alleged text to Baldoni, per his amended complaint.

“For better or worse, but usually for better. Because my dragons also protect those I fight for. So really we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. You will too, I can promise you.”

A source recently told Page Six that Swift felt “used” by Lively in the actress’s legal battle against her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director, Justin Baldoni (seen here). ©Sony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection In Baldoni’s countersuit, he claimed Lively had attempted to intimidate him by using Swift’s presence at one of their meetings. ©Sony Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection The actor-director alleged the “Gossip Girl” alum had referred to the pop star and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, as her “dragons” in text messages to him. GC Images

A source exclusively told Page Six last Thursday, “Taylor really wishes Blake hadn’t dragged her into this whole situation.”

The pair “have been friends for years and Taylor cherishes genuine friendships, but she can’t help but feel used at this point,” the insider added.

We also heard that Swift “wants to keep out of this drama as much as possible.”

Swift (seen here in 2023) “really wishes Blake hadn’t dragged her into this whole situation,” the source told us. Getty Images The pop star has remained quiet on the legal feud between Lively (seen here in 2023) and Baldoni. GC Images

The Eras Tour performer has been known to shower her friends with support while promoting their projects, though she has said very little about “It Ends With Us,” which was inspired by Colleen Hoover’s 2016 book of the same name and focuses on domestic violence.

While she did not post about the film on social media when it came out in August 2024 (as she had done for her pal Zoë Kravitz’s “Blink Twice”), Swift lent her 2020 song “My Tears Ricochet” to the soundtrack.

The “All Too Well” songstress has not publicly commented on Lively’s beef with Baldoni.