Justin Baldoni granted access to Taylor Swift and Blake Lively's private text messages

A federal judge denied Blake Lively's request to keep some of her private text messages with Taylor Swift from Justin Baldoni, marking a major legal victory for the embattled "It Ends with Us" actor and director.

A federal judge denied Blake Lively's request to keep some of her private text messages with Taylor Swift from Justin Baldoni, marking a major legal victory for the embattled "It Ends with Us" actor and director.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Liman deemed in a court filing on Wednesday that Baldoni's requests for some messages between Lively and Swift were permissible.

Baldoni’s legal team will only have access to text messages about “It Ends with Us,” the judge ruled. Lively and Baldoni starred in the 2024 film, an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s best-selling romance novel “It Ends with Us” which is at the center of their ongoing legal battle.

"Given that Lively has represented that Swift had knowledge of complaints or discussions about the working environment on the film, among other issues, the requests for messages with Swift regarding the film and this action are reasonably tailored to discover information that would prove or disprove Lively’s harassment and retaliation claims," the judge wrote.

A representative for Lively denounced the judge's decision.