Could Taylor Swift’s Testimony in Blake Lively vs. Justin Baldoni Trial Be Televised?

Taylor Swift was subpoenaed as a witness in Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s ongoing legal battle on Friday, May 9.

Swift, 35, is expected to testify in the March 2026 trial regarding the behind-the-scenes conflict on Lively and Baldoni’s movie It Ends with Us, unless her legal team successfully files a motion to quash the subpoena. Swift’s song “My Tears Ricochet” was used in the 2024 film.

Following the news, people are curious as to whether or not Swift’s testimony will be televised. The trial will occur in the Southern District of New York, which prohibits cameras inside the courthouse.

“By filing in federal court, they foreclosed the possibility that there will be any cameras in the proceedings,” legal expert Gregory Doll previously told PEOPLE. Doll is a lawyer and partner at Doll Amir & Eley in Los Angeles who is not representing either party.

“Judicial Conference policy does not allow either civil or criminal courtroom proceedings in the district courts to be broadcast, televised, recorded, or photographed for the purpose of public dissemination,” according to uscourts.gov.

If Swift moves forward as a witness in the trial, it’s highly unlikely it would ever be televised.

On Friday, a spokesperson for Swift emphasized the singer has had no close connection to the film other than her song appearing in it.

“Taylor Swift never set foot on the set of this movie, she was not involved in any casting or creative decisions, she did not score the film, she never saw an edit or made any notes on the film, she did not even see It Ends with Us until weeks after its public release,” a rep told PEOPLE.

“Given that her involvement was licensing a song for the film, which 19 other artists also did, this document subpoena is designed to use Taylor Swift’s name to draw public interest by creating tabloid clickbait instead of focusing on the facts of the case,” the spokesperson continued.

Along with Swift, Hugh Jackman could also be served with a subpoena, a source recently disclosed to PEOPLE. 

However, another insider says Swift and Jackman, 56, are allegedly “not privy to anything going on,” adding that the subpoena claims are “smoke and mirrors and trying to distract from the allegations against Baldoni.”

Earlier in the week, Lively’s attorney Mike Gottlieb addressed the Swift subpoena in a statement to PEOPLE, saying, “This is a case about what happened to Blake Lively when she raised claims of sexual harassment on the set. It’s not a case about how songs were chosen.”

Lively, 37, first sued her director-costar, 41, in December, accusing him of sexual harassment, “disturbing” and “unprofessional” behavior on set and a retaliatory smear campaign. Baldoni has denied the allegations and, in January, filed a countersuit alleging defamation and extortion against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and their publicity team. 

Among Baldoni’s claims are that Swift and Reynolds, 48, pressured him into accepting one of Lively’s rewrites for screenwriter Christy Hall’s adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s hit novel. In the complaint, he described an alleged meeting at Lively and Reynolds’ penthouse where Swift “began praising Lively’s script. Baldoni understood the subtext: he needed to comply with Lively’s direction.”

In an alleged text exchange following that interaction, Baldoni told Lively that her script changes were “so much more fun and interesting” and that he “would have felt that way without Ryan and Taylor,” adding a playful emoji. She allegedly responded by comparing herself to Khaleesi from Game of Thrones, calling her husband and Swift her “dragons” and later her “Dance Moms level stage moms.”

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Baldoni has also claimed that Reynolds mocked the director in Deadpool & Wolverine via Reynolds’ character “Nicepool.” Among Lively’s claims are that Baldoni fat-shamed her post-partum body during filming.