'It Ends With Us' Author Colleen Hoover Responds After Blake Lively Sues Justin Baldoni

It Ends With Us author Colleen Hoover just declared that she's Team Blake.

On Saturday—the same day that Blake Lively's legal complaint against her co-star Justin Baldoni was made public—Hoover broke her silence in support of the actress on social media. "@blakelively, you have been nothing but honest, kind, supportive and patient since the day we met," the author wrote alongside a photo of herself and Lively hugging at a screening of the film on her Instagram Story.

While linking back to The New York Times's reporting on the situation, Hoover concluded, "Thank you for being exactly the human that you are. Never change. Never wilt." 

Lively's complaint claims that Baldoni engaged in sexual misconduct on the set of It Ends With Us, in which he also served as the director. A meeting was conducted to address Lively's concerns and Baldoni and his production company, Wayfarer Studios, allegedly agreed to a number of requests—including but not limited to: "No more showing nude videos or images of women to Blake, no more mention of Baldoni's alleged previous 'pornography addiction,' and no more discussions about sexual conquests in front of Blake and others."

As a result, Lively alleges Baldoni and his team spearheaded a smear campaign against her shortly thereafter, citing private emails and text messages between the actor and his crisis PR representatives as evidence.

In a statement to InStyle, Baldoni's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, called Lively's allegations "false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly hurt." He added that Wayfarer Studios made the decision to hire a crisis manager "due to the multiple demands and threats made by Ms. Lively during production which included her threatening to not showing up to set, threatening to not promote the film, ultimately leading to its demise during release, if her demands were not met."

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