Blake Lively seeks protective order to block Justin Baldoni from accessing her communications with Taylor Swift

Blake Lively has reportedly asked a judge to prevent her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni from obtaining communications between her and pop superstar Taylor Swift.

In a motion obtained by Variety, Lively called for a protective order for her communications with Swift as she believes that they are "irrelevant" to the ongoing case.

According to the actress' camp, Baldoni's team is just using Swift's name to get attention in the tabloids without any real legal reason.

"The only allegations in this action that were ever remotely relevant to Ms. Swift were in the Wayfarer Parties' now dismissed complaint," Esra Hudson, Lively's attorney, said in the motion.

"Ms. Swift is not mentioned a single time in Ms. Lively's amended complaint," she added. 

This came after Baldoni's legal team withdrew the subpoena sent to Swift, who they alleged was among those who pressured the actor into accepting one of Lively's rewrites for It Ends With Us.

"We supported the efforts of Taylor's team to quash these inappropriate subpoenas directed to her counsel, and we will continue to stand up for any third party who is unjustly harassed or threatened in the process," Lively's representative said a statement, according to PEOPLE Magazine.

Swift's legal rep, meanwhile, said the singer did not have any active participation in the film other than the use of her song, My Tears Ricochet, adding that Baldoni's issuance of a subpoena was created to use the singer's name "to draw public interest" by creating "tabloid clickbait."

Meanwhile, Baldoni's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, recently called Lively's victory "false" following the dismissal of the It Ends With Us director's $400 million (P22 billion) countersuit against the actress and her husband, Ryan Reynolds.