{"id":2317659,"date":"2026-03-07T23:06:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2317659"},"modified":"2026-03-07T23:06:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:06:22","slug":"it-ends-with-us-author-colleen-hoover-says-its-now-easier-to-separate-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-controversy-from-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/it-ends-with-us-author-colleen-hoover-says-its-now-easier-to-separate-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-controversy-from-film\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Ends With Us\u2019 Author Colleen Hoover Says It\u2019s Now \u201cEasier to Separate\u201d Blake Lively\u2013Justin Baldoni Controversy From Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm6895402\/\">Colleen Hoover<\/a> is looking at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10655524\/\">It Ends With Us<\/a> in a new way following the legal drama involving <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0515116\/\">Blake Lively<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1682573\/\">Justin Baldoni<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4360049\/\">Hoover<\/a>, the author of <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt10655524\/\">It Ends With Us<\/a>, which was adapted into a 2024 feature film starring Lively and Baldoni, appeared on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1679606\/\">Jenna Bush Hager<\/a>\u2019s Open Book podcast to promote her new film, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt33714084\/\">Reminders of Him<\/a>, when she was asked about the ongoing legal battle between the two stars.<\/p>\n<p>A few months after the film\u2019s release, Lively sued her director-co-star Baldoni in December 2024, alleging sexual harassment, retaliation and creating a hostile work environment in a complaint. Baldoni has denied her allegations and filed a defamation lawsuit against the New York Times, which published the actress\u2019 complaint. A legal battle between the pair has been playing out in court.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday\u2019s episode of Open Book, Jenna Bush Hager asked Hoover if it was hard to have&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colleen Hoover is looking at It Ends With Us in a new way following the legal drama involving Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. Hoover, the author of It Ends With Us, which was adapted into a 2024 feature film starring Lively and Baldoni, appeared on Jenna Bush Hager\u2019s Open Book podcast to promote her new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2317660,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2317659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/\u2018It-Ends-With-Us-Author-Colleen-Hoover-Says-Its-Now.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2317659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2317661,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317659\/revisions\/2317661"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2317660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}