Taylor Swift has agreed to be deposed by Brian Friedman. Yes, Taylor Swift agreed to have her own lawyer, Brian Friedman, take the deposition of her on-camera interview with Justin Baldoni, who is representing Blake Lively in his lawsuit against Taylor Swift.
00:00:00.000Yes, Taylor Swift agreed to be deposed by Brian Friedman.
00:00:11.260Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Tashdi Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
00:00:19.600Okay, I don't know where to start, you guys, because I'm so excited that I can't hide it.
00:00:23.800So Justin Baldoni's team just filed this random letter to the judge asking for some delays.
00:00:30.480It's been a lot of back and forth the last couple of days, last couple of weeks.
00:00:35.160Lake Lively's team is complaining to the judge that they haven't seen these signal messages that they think is going to involve some kind of bombshell or some kind of evidence.
00:00:44.340And they're complaining to the judge that they haven't been able to see them yet.
00:00:47.460And Baldoni's team is saying that we are willing to give it to you, but it takes a while to retrieve these messages because they don't really exist.
00:00:56.520Because they use this instant delete function on the Signal app.
00:01:34.560So, finally, it says here at the end, Ms. Lively misleading implies the Wayfair parties seek a blanket 30-day extension of the discovery cutoff date.
00:01:44.900In fact, the Wayfair parties request an agreement solely to take the deposition of Taylor Swift on the week of October 20th to 25th due to Ms. Swift's pre-existing professional obligations.
00:02:02.100Whether the court agrees to the broader modification sought by plaintiff, the Wayfair parties respectfully request that the court modify the scheduling order for the sole purpose of accommodating third-party witness, Taylor Swift, who has agreed to appear for deposition, but is unable to do so before October 20th, 2025.
00:02:25.040Yes, Taylor Swift agreed to be deposed by Brian Friedman.
00:02:33.520She is sitting down for an on-camera interview to talk about her relationship with Lake Lively and probably about the text messages that Lake Lively sent to her when she was trying to blackmail her because she wanted her to support her in public and Taylor Swift refused to do that.
00:02:54.100Also, according to what leaked to the media back in May, Taylor Swift had been asked by Blake Lively to delete text messages between them.
00:03:03.180That's basically evidence tampering, which is very serious.
00:03:08.020And if Taylor Swift are going to share these things under that deposition, under oath, and she is Justin Baldoni's witness, this is major, you guys.
00:03:19.240So all of this information came to light back in May of this year when Baldoni's team agreed to drop the subpoena against Taylor Swift.
00:03:29.320In that subpoena, they were looking for information how Taylor Swift was actually involved in the production and everything that ends with us.
00:03:38.460Now, that's not really their goal here.
00:03:42.320Their goal here is to get the information out of Taylor Swift that was leaked to the media, apparently by Taylor Swift's dad back in May,
00:03:52.540that Lake Lively had been blackmailing and threatening her friend Taylor Swift to support her.
00:03:59.780It's so funny to look back now, the reaction of Blake Lively's team when that subpoena was dropped.