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Colleen Hoover said she is now "embarrassed" to say she wrote It Ends With Us after the drama surrounding the movie's costars

"I can’t even recommend it anymore. I feel like [the lawsuit] has overshadowed it,” she said

Blake Lively lawsuit against Justin Baldoni is set to go to trial in March 2026

Colleen Hoover is getting candid on how Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni 's legal battle has changed the way she views It Ends With Us .

The bestselling author first published the novel in 2016, and it later became a sensation on TikTok, prompting a sequel book in 2022. Hoover, 45, has been open about how the novel and its themes of domestic violence are personal to her, loosely inspired by her own mother's experiences.

It Ends With Us became the first of Hoover's book

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