Colleen Hoover deactivates Instagram as it ends with a lawsuit against us

Author Colleen Hoover seems to remove itself from the story of Blake Lively And Justin Baldonithe legal drama.

Fans noticed that Hoover’s Instagram account is no longer active due to the daily developments in the actors’ lawsuits against each other. The trouble started when Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 40, got together to adapt Hoover’s book It ends with us for the big screen.

Released in August 2024, the film follows Lily Bloom (Lively) as her relationship with neurosurgeon Ryle Kincard (Baldoni) turns abusive. Ultimately, she finds an ally in her high school love interest, Atlas Corrigan (Brandon Sklenar). During the press tour last summer, Baldoni – who directed the film – and Lively were not promoting the film together.

Following speculation about tensions between the costars, Lively filed paperwork in December 2024 accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment, creating a “hostile work environment” and causing her “severe emotional distress” while working together.

In a statement to The New York TimesLively said: “I hope my legal action will help pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak out about wrongdoing, and help protect others who may be targeted.”

Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman calling Lively’s claims “completely false, outrageous and deliberately salacious,” he claims in a statement We weekly that Lively filed the lawsuit to “repair her negative reputation” and “retell a story” about the production of It ends with us. (Lively served as producer for the film.)

Freedman further alleged that Lively made “multiple demands and threats” during filming, including “threatening not to show up on set, threatening not to promote the film, which ultimately led to its demise during its release, if not to her requirements were met. ”

At the time, Hoover, 45, showed her support by publicly praising Lively, writing via her Instagram Story: “Blake Lively, you have been nothing but honest, kind, supportive and patient since the day we met. Thank you for being exactly the person that you are. Never change. Never wither.”

Last month, Baldoni was one of 10 plaintiffs who filed a $250 million lawsuit The New York Times for reporting on Lively’s allegations. A spokesperson for the The New York Times told Us that the outlet plans to “vigorously defend itself against the lawsuit.”

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Baldoni’s Wayfarer Studios later filed a lawsuit against Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynoldsand Lively’s publicist, Leslie Sloaneseeking $400 million in damages. The lawsuit, filed earlier this month, included allegations of civil racketeering, defamation, false light, invasion of privacy and other claims.

“This lawsuit is a legal action based on an overwhelming amount of untouched evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team’s duplicitous attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by pushing grossly redacted, unsubstantiated, new and falsified information into the media,” Freedman said Us on Thursday, January 16. “It is clear, based on our total willingness to provide all full text messages, emails, video footage and other documentary evidence shared between the parties in real time, that this is a fight she will not fight. win and will definitely regret it. Blake Lively was either grossly misled by her team or deliberately and knowingly misrepresented.”

Lively, meanwhile, denounced the legal action taken against her.

“This latest lawsuit from Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and his associates is a new chapter in the abuse manual. This is an age-old story: a woman speaks up with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation, and the abuser tries to turn the tables on the victim. This is what experts call DARVO. To deny. Attack. Reverse Victim Perpetrator,” the statement read. “Wayfarer has chosen to use the resources of its billionaire co-founder to issue media statements, file meritless lawsuits and threaten lawsuits to undermine the public’s ability to understand that what they are doing is retaliation against allegations of sexual harassment.”

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Lively’s legal team accused Baldoni and his associates of trying to “shift” the focus on her.

“They are trying to shift the narrative to Ms. Lively by falsely claiming that she has taken creative control and alienated Mr. Baldoni’s cast. The evidence will show that the cast and others had their own negative experiences with Mr. Baldoni and Wayfarer. The evidence will also show that Sony asked Ms. Lively to oversee Sony’s version of the film, which they subsequently selected for distribution and which was a resounding success,” the statement continued.

The statement concluded: “Their response to sexual harassment allegations: she wanted it, it’s her fault. Their justification for why this happened to her: look what she was wearing. In short, while the victim focuses on the abuse, the abuser focuses on the victim. The strategy to attack the woman is desperate, it does not rebut the evidence in Ms. Lively’s complaint and will fail.”