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MAUREEN CALLAHAN: The Blake Lively-Justin Baldoni lawsuit scandal exposes an ugly secret about Taylor Swift and her female friends that she seems desperate to keep hidden

Is Taylor Swift America's worst best friend? Her one-time BFF Blake Lively, now at a career and reputational low, looks to be getting the heave-ho.

For a woman who built a massive fanbase on sisterhood — resulting in the scourge of middle-aged 'Swifties' flaunting cheap plastic-elastic 'friendship bracelets' last year — it turns out not one close female friend is safe. According to these filings, Swift gave notes on the script, was present — by accident, a source claims — at a meeting called by Lively and Reynolds to allegedly bully Baldoni, and allowed one of her songs to be used in the film. So Blake's metaphorical body goes on the heap of other discarded BFFs such as Karlie Kloss, Lorde, Katy Perry, Dianna Agron and Lena Dunham — the latter often trotted out among long-legged supermodels as proof, somehow, that Swift wasn't a superficial mean girl.

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