Colleen Hoover’s movie adaptation of It Ends with Us came out over a year ago, but the conversation around the production hasn’t stopped. Now, Hoover is giving her insight into the incendiary legal battle that’s still raging between the two stars of her project. And sadly, she admits that the public fallout has made her “almost embarrassed” to have written her most personal novel.

Shortly after It Ends with Us premiered at the end of 2024, leads Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni filed bombshell lawsuits against one another — Lively accusing Baldoni of sexual harassment on the movie’s set, and Baldoni firing back with a defamation claim. The matter won’t be settled until its March 9, 2026 court date . Hoover revealed she will be giving a deposition for the case in a Nov. 20 Ell

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