The high-profile friendship hit a rough patch after the pop star was dragged into Lively’s legal battle with her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director.

When Blake Lively, who rose to fame in the 2000s in Gossip Girl, was cast as the main character, fans became even more excited, describing her as the perfect choice to play Lily Bloom, a young woman who grew up witnessing domestic abuse and winds up in the same position years later.

While Justin Baldoni’s defamation case against Blake Lively is dead, his lawyers’ pursuit of Taylor Swift continues.