India, Feb. 6 -- On January 16, Justin Baldoni counter-attacked his It Ends With Us co-star by filing a $400 million lawsuit against Blake Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and their publicist, a month after the actress filed a bombshell complaint citing sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign.

As part of his heavy claims against the other parties, the It Ends With Us director name-dropped Lively's BFF Taylor Swift. He alleged that the record-smashing pop star, alongside the Deadpool icon, pressured him to accept Blake's rewrites for the film's much-referred rooftop scene. As is already famously known, Taylor's song "my tear ricochet" is played both in the movie and its trailer.

In a recent podcast appearance, Baldoni's attor...