Colleen Hoover wants to ‘stay out’ of ‘It Ends With Us’ drama.

As the legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni continues, the real story is revealed And it ends with us He got lost in the mix.

Colleen Hoover, who wrote the 2016 novel that inspired the film, admitted she’s “almost embarrassed to say I wrote it” amid the ongoing battle in which Lively has accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and leading a smear campaign against her.

“I can’t even recommend it anymore. I feel it. I feel it.” [the lawsuit] “I was overwhelmed by it,” Hoover said. deer From the movie 2024. “When people ask me what I do, I tell them: ‘I’m a writer. Please don’t ask me what I wrote.”

Mostly, Hoover feels bad that her mother was put through this drama. “The book was inspired by her story, and now it makes us think about PTSD. I feel bad because I almost feel like she went through more in the aftermath of this movie, more pain than she went through with my father, just seeing his ugliness,” she explained.

“The more time passes, the easier everything becomes for all of us,” Hoover added. “But it’s sad, because I was very proud of this book.” “And I’m still proud of it, but less overt. Maybe I need treatment, I don’t know.”

Hoover said she was “absolutely unaware anything was happening” on set before Lively filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni, also accusing him of leading a “false marketing” campaign against her.

“I’m just trying to stay away from negativity. I have my own story to tell,” she said. “But I don’t want to draw attention to it, and I don’t want to put someone else in their place to hold myself up. So I’d rather ignore it and let people think and say what they have to say. I feel like it’s so big at this point that there’s nothing anyone can say to change any opinion people have about it, even though no one has the actual truth. Not even me.”

Recently, in a legal saga, Baldoni filed for lawsuits against him and his Wayfarer Studios banner, though he did not say why.