Before Blake sued Justin Baldoni in December 2024, she checked in with Taylor Dec. 4, to see if she was OK, acknowledging in text messages—included with a court filing unsealed Jan. 20, 2026—that she’d been feeling “like a bad friend lately because I was such a sad sack who only talked about my own s–t for months.”
In response to Blake taking responsibility in case she’d caused any bad blood, Taylor replied, per the filing, “I think I’m just exhausted in every avenue of my life and in recent months had been feeling a little bit of a shift in the way you talk to me. Yes, there has been a lot of Justin stuff but I’ve been through things like this before and I know how all consuming it is.”
Noting Blake had sounded like “a mass corporate email” in recent messages, Taylor continued, “It feels awful to be in any way critical of any way you process what you’ve been going through but I just kinda miss my funny, dark, normal-speaking friend who talks to me as herself.”
Taylor added, “I know you feel attacked from all sides for ridiculous reasons, so you’re feeling like you have to overly explain things… but it’s me. That’s just caused a little distance. And you don’t need to apologize. Just come back, please.”
