Blake Lively basically bent over backwards to save her shaky relationship with Taylor Swift just before suing Justin Baldoni ... a move that may have ensured her most powerful ally was in her corner before launching this long and chaotic legal battle. In a December 2024 text thread , obtained by TMZ, Blake awkwardly reached out to Taylor to check in because she "felt like a bad friend lately." And Taylor just straight up agrees with her ... "You're not wrong," she wrote. Good thing Blake