It Ends with Us writer Colleen Hoover is supporting Blake Full of life amid the actress’ sexual harassment allegations towards the movie adaption’s director and star Justin Baldoni.
In an Instagram Tales submit on Saturday, Dec. 21 — the identical day that Full of life’s criticism towards her costar Baldoni, 40, got here to mild — Hoover, 45, shared her help for the actress and linked to the The New York Times‘ reporting on the state of affairs.
“@blakelively, you will have been nothing however trustworthy, variety, supportive and affected person because the day we met,” Hoover wrote alongside a photograph of herself and Full of life, 37, hugging at a screening of the movie. “Thanks for being precisely the human that you’re. By no means change. By no means wilt.”
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Full of life’s criticism, obtained by PEOPLE, alleges that Baldoni engaged in misconduct on the set of It Ends with Us that resulted in a gathering attended by producers to handle Full of life’s issues about his habits and that of the film’s lead producer, Jamey Heath.
Following the assembly, the criticism alleges, Baldoni and his manufacturing firm, Wayfarer Studios, allegedly agreed to quite a lot of stipulations, together with “no extra improvising of kissing” and “no extra private, bodily touching of, or sexual feedback by Mr. Baldoni or Mr. Heath to be tolerated by [Blake Lively] and/or any of her workers, in addition to any feminine solid or crew with out their specific consent.”
Different requests included “no extra including of intercourse scenes, oral intercourse or on digicam climaxing by [Lively] exterior the scope of the script [Lively] permitted when signing onto the undertaking” — all of which Baldoni and the producers allegedly agreed to. Nonetheless, Full of life alleges within the criticism that Baldoni subsequently started a retaliatory smear marketing campaign towards her quickly after.
Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman referred to as Full of life’s allegations “false, outrageous and deliberately salacious with an intent to publicly harm” in an announcement to PEOPLE on Dec. 21.
Full of life’s criticism consists of as proof non-public texts and emails that seem to display disaster PR representatives for Baldoni planning to “[plant] tales about [Lively’s] weaponization of feminism” in addition to execute “full social account take downs,” by beginning “threads of theories” and customarily working to “change [the] narrative” round Full of life’s accusations.
Full of life alleges that “she has suffered from grief, worry, trauma and excessive anxiousness” due to Baldoni’s alleged habits.
In keeping with the criticism, which is a precursor to submitting a discrimination lawsuit in California, “the emotional affect on Ms. Full of life has been excessive, not solely affecting her, however her household, together with her husband and 4 kids.”
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Full of life has beforehand been candid about her friendship with Hoover. Earlier this month, the actress shared a submit on Instagram celebrating the writer’s birthday, together with photographs of the pair having fun with a snack collectively as a tune from Depraved performed within the background.
“Everybody who is aware of this girl is modified for it,” wrote Full of life, who performed Lily Bloom on this yr’s big-screen adaptation of Hoover’s novel. “She’s calm and regular. Her integrity is her basis. Her humor ranges you outta nowhere. Her quiet fortitude is mighty. And she or he at all times chooses the kindest path.”
“She loves her followers. She loves her mates. She loves her neighborhood,” Full of life added partly. “She loves her household. However principally she loves Food regimen Pepsi. And oh boy will we love her.”
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Hoover was additionally complimentary of Full of life’s work on the film as each a star and producer, telling PEOPLE in August that she gave a “fascinating, gorgeous and emotional” efficiency within the movie.
“There aren’t sufficient phrases to explain her phenomenal expertise,” Hoover stated on the time. “Blake Full of life actually introduced Lily Bloom to life in a method that exceeded all my expectations. After I wrote Lily’s character, I assumed I had a reasonably strong picture in thoughts however Blake’s portrayal added a lot depth and complexity to the character that I did not even anticipate.”
