Taylor Swift Allegedly Restructures Her Inner Circle, Removing Certain Friends

While Swift has often drawn from her personal experiences, particularly her romantic ones, for musical inspiration, her friendships have also been under the spotlight, albeit more discreetly. The singer generally maintains a veil of privacy over her personal conflicts, leaving many to speculate about the status of her relationships. Despite the intrigue surrounding potential “bad blood” narratives in her album “The Life of a Showgirl,” Swift chose not to publicly address any rumored rifts, leaving fans to piece together the story from her actions and appearances.

One of the most talked-about rumored fractures involves actress Blake Lively. Swift and Lively appeared inseparable from 2014, frequently seen celebrating holidays together and sharing significant personal milestones. Lively even chose Swift as the godmother to three of her children, a testament to their close bond. However, tensions reportedly emerged in the mid-2020s when a legal dispute involving Lively’s co-star Justin Baldoni implicated Swift. This situation, which included Swift being subpoenaed, reportedly cooled their friendship, though neither party has publicly acknowledged any fallout. Their absence from each other’s public lives since late 2024 has only fueled speculation.

Perhaps the biggest rumor surrounding Taylor Swift’s soured friendships involves actor Blake Lively. The two women became friends sometime in 2014 and have been nearly inseparable in the years since — until the mid 2020s. Aside from Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, being invited to Swift’s home in Rhode Island for Fourth of July parties, Lively and Reynolds also asked Swift to be the godmother of three of the couple’s four children — daughters James, Inez, and Betty. However, when Lively got into a legal battle with her “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni, Swift’s name came up, and it has reportedly caused the friendship to fall apart. 

While Swift remains tight-lipped about the intricacies of her friendships, the stories that emerge from her social circle continue to captivate fans and media alike. Whether these rumored fallouts have truly fractured her inner circle or are just part of the ever-changing dynamics of celebrity relationships remains a subject of speculation and fascination.

Karlie Kloss was another solid member of Taylor Swift’s girl squad for a few years, but it seems as though the two women haven’t been friends since before the pandemic. From hitting up Coachella together to spending time at Swift’s Rhode Island compound, everything seemed to be going swell for these two — until it didn’t. In February 2018, some chatter started circulating online after Kloss was spotted hanging out with former Swift enemy, Katy Perry. That August, however, Kloss shared an Instagram photo of her and Swift behind the scenes during The Reputation World Tour. Two months later, Kloss tied the knot, but Swift didn’t attend. Kloss’s rep told the media that Swift was “unable to attend due to prior commitments” (via Elle), but that wasn’t enough to convince fans that everything was hunky dory between the two.

Lest we forget, it was around this time that Kloss was getting friendly with Scooter Braun (he even attended Kloss’s wedding, according to Page Six) — yes, the same Scooter Braun that purchased the masters of Swift’s first six albums without her consent. In May 2025, Swift bought back her masters, but her friendship with Kloss doesn’t appear to be any better.

In 2025, Taylor Swift’s friendship with actor Miles Teller and his wife, Keleigh Sperry, appeared to be over. Swift and Sperry had been friends for more than a decade, and the threesome was known to hang out together from time to time. Swift was so close to the duo that she asked them to be in the 2021 music video for her song “I Bet You Think About Me (Taylor’s Version)” — and they did. Now, according to Page Six, Swift, Teller, and Sperry have’t been seen together since the Super Bowl at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas in February 2024. And while we don’t know exactly what may or may not be going on behind the scenes, Teller’s interview with Parade suggests that something happened.

While chatting with Parade in early November 2025, Teller was asked about Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding. Interestingly, Teller had no idea if he would be invited to the soiree or not at the time — even though he’d been friends with Swift for more than a decade. “That is gonna be, I imagine, one impressive wedding,” Teller told the outlet, adding that he’s “very happy for them” and he thinks Swift and Kelce are “having a blast.” Interestingly, Teller was on the November 12 episode of Kelce’s “New Heights” podcast, and things seemed more than fine between them as they laughed and joked together throughout the interview. Maybe that’s just show business, baby.