'It Ends With Us' author Colleen Hoover supports Blake Lively after Justin Baldoni claims

                                           

Blake Lively is supported by Colleen Hoover.

After Lively filed a lawsuit alleging sexual harassment from her co-star and director Justin Baldoni, the author of "It Ends With Us" is expressing support for the actress.

Hoover commended Lively in an Instagram Story on Saturday, along with a picture of the two of them cuddling at a showing of "It Ends With Us." Additionally, she provided a link to a New York Times article detailing Lively's claims that Baldoni launched an online smear campaign against her.

"@blakelively, you have been nothing but honest, kind, supportive and patient since the day we met," Hoover tweeted. "I appreciate you being who you are as a person. Never alter. Never give up.

Lively plays Lily Bloom, a woman in an abusive relationship with Ryle Kincaid (played by Baldoni), in the film "It Ends With Us," which was based on Hoover's best-selling book. Baldoni not only starred in the movie but also directed it.

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Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively had a falling out.She claims that the slander campaign followed.

Lively accused Baldoni of sexually harassing her on the film's production and attempting to destroy her name in reprisal for her claims in the complaint that moviemood90is was able to get on Saturday.

"Ms. Lively and other cast and crew experienced invasive, unwelcome, unprofessional and sexually inappropriate behavior by Mr. Baldoni and (producer Jamey) Heath," according to the complaint. "Because Mr. Baldoni and Mr. Heath held all leadership positions on the production, they answered to no one, and brushed off or ignored the concerns Ms. Lively and others expressed."

Lively's claims were refuted by Bryan Freedman, a lawyer for Baldoni's production firm, in a statement to The New York Times, calling them "completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious."

Baldoni allegedly "improvised physical intimacy" without Lively's consent, asked intrusive questions about her sexual life, mentioned a "previous pornography addiction," and admitted to having "engaged in sexual conduct without consent" in the past, according to the lawsuit.


According to the lawsuit, the parties met in January to discuss the "hostile work environment," and it was decided that neither Baldoni nor Heath would show Lively or her staff any more nude movies or pictures of women, nor would they engage in any sexual remarks or physical contact with Lively or others.

Lively claimed that after she criticized Baldoni's actions, he and his colleagues at his production firm Wayfarer Studios organized a public relations campaign against her.

"Mr. Baldoni and his Wayfarer associates embarked on a sophisticated press and digital plan in retaliation for Ms. Lively exercising her legally-protected right to speak up about their misconduct on the set, with the additional objective of intimidating her and anyone else from revealing in public what actually occurred," according to the complaint, which was filed in response to an action in court.