""It feels like a circus," Hoover says. "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. So I'd rather just ignore it and let people think and say what they're going to say.""
""The book was inspired by her story, and now it gives us PTSD to think about it," Hoover told of how she and her mother feel. "I feel awful because I almost feel like she's gone through more with the aftermath of this film, more pain than she went through with my dad, just seeing the ugliness of it.""
""I can't even recommend it anymore. I feel like [the lawsuit] has overshadowed it," she says. "I'm almost embarrassed to say I wrote it. When people ask what I do, I'm just like, 'I'm a writer. Please don't ask me what I wrote.'""
Colleen Hoover wrote It Ends With Us to better understand her mother's relationship with her abusive biological father. Ongoing legal disputes between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively over the film adaptation have retraumatized Hoover and her mother; the movie's fallout caused more visible pain than the original childhood abuse. Lively filed a 2024 harassment and retaliation lawsuit that will go to trial in March. Baldoni's countersuits for defamation, including one against the New York Times, were dismissed earlier this year. The litigation produced wide fallout, nearly involving Taylor Swift and prompting deposition threats for Hoover. Hoover feels embarrassed by the book, believes the lawsuit has overshadowed it, and has grown reluctant to recommend or identify the novel; the legal drama also influenced greater author involvement in future adaptations.
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