Colleen Hoover says she’s ‘broke as s–t’ after merch sale amid ‘It Ends With Us’ drama: ‘I can’t retire now’

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the controversy between “It Ends With Us” stars Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively.“Well, I can’t retire now because now I’m gonna be in the hole by 5 p.m.,” she shared. “Even if you hate me, you should go buy a piece because it’s a very, kind of, bad thing.

Anyway, at least I have my Diet Pepsi. It’s still gonna be a great day because you guys get almost free merch, congrats.”The behind-the-scenes issues came to light when Lively, 37, sued Baldoni, 41, accusing him of sexual harassment during filming and orchestrating a public smear campaign against her.The “A Simple Favor” star also alleged that Baldoni caused her to suffer “severe emotional distress and pain, humiliation, embarrassment, belittlement, frustration and mental anguish.”Baldoni denied the claims.The “Jane the Virgin” alum then filed a countersuit against the “Gossip Girl” alum, her husband Ryan Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s p.r.

firm Vision PR Inc. for $400 million.At the time, Baldoni’s attorney, Bryan Freedman, said, “This lawsuit is a legal action based on an overwhelming amount of untampered evidence detailing Blake Lively and her team’s duplicitous attempt to destroy Justin Baldoni, his team and their respective companies by disseminating grossly edited, unsubstantiated, new and doctored information to the media.”Earlier this week, Reynolds, 48, filed a motion to dismiss the suit after the couple repeatedly shot down Baldoni’s allegations against them.In his defamation suit, Baldoni accused Reynolds of privately calling him a “sexual predator” and working to get his talent agency — WME — to drop him.Reynolds’ lawyers, Michael Gottlieb and Esra Hudson, told The Post on Tuesday that the actor could not have defamed Baldoni because.