Taylor Swift’s response to Justin Baldoni’s accusation Blake Lively used her to 'pressure' him revealed

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: Pop star Taylor Swift has been left "perplexed" and "confused" by the latest accusations made by Justin Baldoni in his explosive lawsuit against Blake Lively.

Baldoni, 40, filed a $400 million counter lawsuit against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, 48, and their publicist on Thursday, January 16, less than a month after Lively filed a complaint alleging sexual harassment and a retaliation smear campaign.

One of the most startling claims in Baldoni's lawsuit is that Lively allegedly used her pal Swift, 35, as leverage to "pressure" him into agreeing to changes she made to the film's script, per People.

Taylor Swift 'confused' by Justin Baldoni's lawsuit allegations

According to Justin Baldoni's millions dollar lawsuit, the 'Gossip Girl' alum sought Taylor Swift's influence because the 'It Ends With Us' director and actor was hesitant to use certain of the script's changes that Blake Lively made.

Baldoni claimed that Swift's sudden appearance at a meeting caused him to feel pressured to follow Lively's instructions.

He claimed that he felt he "needed to comply with Blake's direction for the script after the 'Bad Blood' singer appeared at a meeting they were having and began to overtly "praise" Lively's writing.

Moreover, Swift's name was not mentioned in the lawsuit, but it was included in text screenshots that accompanied his claims, per Daily Mail.

However, a source now revealed that the 'Cruel Summer' singer is "confused" about being forced into Baldoni's suit because she believes that she has a "friendship" with Lively.

"Taylor is proud of the film because her music was featured in it, which gave her a sense of involvement, though she wasn’t fully aware of the extent of the project’s developments," the source said.

They added: "She is confused by the claims in the suit, as her connection to Blake is purely a friendship, with no interest in influencing or controlling Blake’s projects."

According to the source, Swift had no intention of attending the meeting. They stated she was only coming over to hang out with her friend, but she showed up during the meeting, which was still in progress.

The source said of Swift, "She finds Justin’s interpretation of the encounter perplexing, and those close to her suspect she’s being drawn into the situation as a means to target Blake."

"This was the first time that Taylor ever met Justin. She had no idea who he was and Taylor was simply being polite. She was polite to him as she is to everyone she meets," they added.

Blake Lively reportedly claimed she could 'take a pass' at writing, says Justin Baldoni's attorney

According to the countersuit filed on Thursday, Blake Lively allegedly requested to "take a pass" on the movie's rooftop sequence, where her character Lily Bloom first meets Justin Baldoni's Ryle Kincaid, during the pre-production stage.

Baldoni's attorney claimed that the actor-director "agreed to take a look" at her version of the "pivotal scene" but he was "hesitant" to use it because it "dramatically differed from what had been written originally."

In response to his "exceedingly mild resistance," Lively "went silent for multiple days" and eventually claimed in an alleged text message that his response to her revision "didn’t feel great for me" — that is, to Reynolds and what Baldoni referred to as "another megacelebrity friend."

The 179-page complaint stated: "He thanked [Blake] for her passion and diplomatically told her that the scene would likely end up being somewhere between the original version and [Blake's] version."

The lawsuit claimed that after Lively invited Baldoni to her home to talk about her rewrite, her husband, Reynolds, "launched into enthusiastic praise for [Blake's version of the scene]."

"Hours later, as the meeting was ending, a famous, and famously close, friend of [Ryan and Blake], walked into the room and similarly began praising [Blake's] script. [Justin] understood the subtext: he needed to comply with [Blake's] direction for the script," the documents read.

According to Baldoni's attorney, he texted Lively later "to say that he had liked her pages and hadn't needed [Ryan] and her mega-celebrity friend to pressure him."

In the court records, Baldoni submitted screenshots of his and Lively's text chats, and one of them showed him mentioning someone named "Taylor," but he did not identify the celebrity friend he was referring to.