Taylor Swift’s friendship with Blake Lively has come under scrutiny amid the legal dispute between Lively and her It Ends with Us co-star and director, Justin Baldoni. An insider claims that Swift’s silence on the case could play a major role in Baldoni’s defense.

After Justin Baldoni filed a lawsuit against The New York Times following their publication of a story about Blake Lively’s complaint against the director, the news outlet has filed to be dismissed from the lawsuit.

Blake Lively is suing her It Ends with US co-star Justin Baldoni for breach of oral contract and has now been denied access to his text messages in an ongoing lawsuit