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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Helen Coffey

What Taylor Swift and Blake Lively’s texts really say about their friendship

There aren’t many ways in which I can relate to global music sensation Taylor Swift. Or Hollywood star Blake Lively, for that matter. Their gilded lives – funded by their gilded millions – are far beyond my humble ken.

But in one very specific regard, I can relate. Hard relate, even. The pair’s private correspondence has been made extremely public as part of the ongoing and increasingly acrimonious legal beef between Lively and actor-director Justin Baldoni. And it turns out that Taylor and Blake, rich and famous as they are, have just as complex and gnarly a friendship dynamic as the rest of womankind.

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