Colleen Hoover Deactivates Instagram Amid It’s Over With Us Handbag

Author Colleen Hoover seems to remove itself from the narrative Blake Lively a Justin Baldoni‘ a legal drama.

Fans noticed that Hoover’s Instagram account which is no longer active in the midst of daily developments in the legal cases of the actors against each other.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.

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

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

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In a statement provided 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 up about wrongdoing and help protect others who may be targeted. “

Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman called Lively’s claims “completely false, outrageous and deliberately salacious,” claiming in a statement to Us Weekly that Lively filed the lawsuit to “fix her negative reputation” and “narrative remaking” regarding production It Ends With Us. (He served actively as a producer on the film.)

Freedman went on to claim that Lively had “multiple demands and threats” throughout filming, which included “threatening not to show up to set, threatening not to promote the film, ultimately leading to her demise during release, if her demands were not 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 man you are. Never change. Never withers.”

Last month, Baldoni He was one of 10 plaintiffs and launched a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times for his coverage of Lively’s accusations. A spokesman said on behalf of the The New York Times say Us that the outlet plans to “vigorously defend 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, include charges of civil extortion, defamation, false light invasion of privacy and other claims.

“This lawsuit is legal action based on a large amount of unaltered evidence detailing a duplicitous attempt by Blake Lively and her team to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by disseminating new information edited, untested, heavily edited for the media,” Freedman said Us on Thursday, January 16. “It is clear based on our own willingness to provide all the complete text messages, emails, video footage and other documentary evidence shared between the parties in real time, that this a battle she will not win and will certainly regret. Blake Lively was either seriously misled by her team or willfully and willfully misrepresented the truth.”

Lively, meanwhile, He condemned the legal action take against her.

“This latest lawsuit by Justin Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios, and his associates is another chapter in the abusers’ playbook. This is a timeless 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. Denial Attack. Reverse Victim Offender,” the statement read. “Wayfarer has chosen to use the resources of its billionaire co-founder to issue media releases, launch frivolous lawsuits, and threaten litigation to overwhelm the public’s ability to understand that what they are doing is retaliating against allegations of sexual harassment.”

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Lively’s legal team accused Baldoni and his associates of try to “change” the focus on her instead.

“They are trying to shift the narrative to Ms. Lively by falsely claiming she seized creative control and alienated the cast from Mr Baldoni. The evidence will show that the cast and others have had their own negative experiences with Mr Baldoni and Wayfarer. The evidence will also show that Sony asked Ms. Lively oversaw Sony’s cut of the film, which they then optioned for distribution and which was a huge success,” the statement continued.

The statement concluded: “Their response to allegations of sexual harassment: 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 of attacking the woman is desperate, it does not refute the evidence in Ms Lively’s complaint, and it will fail.”