Author Colleen Hoover is weighing in on the authorized drama between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively.
The two actors co-starred within the film based mostly on Hoover’s ebook, It Ends With Us.
They’ve been concerned in a messy authorized warfare that includes a lawsuit and counter-claims.
Now, Hoover is giving her ideas on the accusations in a brand new interview with Elle, which coated a variety of matters, from Hoover’s origins as an creator to her success in Hollywood, the place a number of of her books are being made into movies. The interview then veered into the Baldoni-Lively state of affairs and, though the publication famous that Hoover selected her phrases fastidiously, she nonetheless had lots to say about it.
Elle reported that apart from being on set for just a few days and being an govt producer of the movie, Hoover was “completely unaware that anything was happening.”
Hoover described the state of affairs with Baldoni and Lively as “unfortunate” and “disappointing.”
“It feels like a circus,” Hoover informed Elle. “When there are real people involved, with real feelings and emotions. This actually truly has impacted some of the actors’ careers in huge ways. And I just find it all around sad.”
Elle famous that Hoover is “leery of breathing more life” into the back-and-forth accusations.
“I’m just trying to stay removed from the negativity. I have my own story I could tell … but I don’t want to bring attention to it, and I don’t want to have to put someone else down to lift myself up,” she told Elle.
“So I’d rather just ignore it and let people think and say what they’re going to say,” she added. “I feel like it’s so big at this point that there’s nothing anyone can say to change whatever opinion people have of it, even though no one has the actual truth. Not even me.”