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 inside the earlier months and that the alleged timing of the deposition falls after the shut of discovery.

Justin Baldoni and Blake Full of life are presently embroiled in a sexual harassment lawsuit, which Full of life filed towards Baldoni following their work collectively on the movie.

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

In her personal submitting on September 12, Full of life’s authorized crew argued that Baldoni had delayed too lengthy in searching for the deposition, mentioning 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 courtroom’s discovery deadline.

“At any level over the previous six months, [Baldoni’s team] may have seen 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 social gathering 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 truth discovery and ten days after the events are on account of trade skilled studies.”

In her submitting, Full of life 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 meant to make use of the deposition to create a “media spectacle on this matter,” seemingly referencing how Baldoni and his crew dragged Swift into the lawsuit by repeatedly mentioning her in courtroom paperwork and issuing a subpoena to depose her months earlier than however later withdrawing it.

“Such a exhibiting could be anticipated for any deposition occurring after the shut of discovery, particularly so for a 3rd social gathering, however is much more related for this third social gathering, 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, Full of life.

In line with the Every 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 position” within the former co-stars’ courtroom case.

A letter from Swift’s authorized crew learn partially: “Additional, my consumer didn’t comply with a deposition, but when she is pressured 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 throughout the week of October 20 if the events have been capable of work out their disputes.”

Forward of the trial in Might 2026, Baldoni’s protection has been struggling some losses, with one of many newest being a decide’s determination to chop Full of life’s deposition from the courtroom docket, per Deadline.

“The Wayfarer Events’ attachment of the complete, practically 300-page deposition—after citing solely two pages of it within the Letter—served no correct litigation function and as a substitute seems to have been meant to burden Full of life (and because of this, the Courtroom) and to ask public hypothesis and scandal,” stated Decide Lewis Liman, refrencing Baldoni and his fellow defendants that make up the Wayfarer Events.

Liman had made the order in response to Full of life’s movement to maintain her deposition sealed, through which he additionally claimed that the Wayfarer Events failed to indicate the complete deposition was related to their case, nor may they.

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