Read Justin Baldoni's 2019 Email Exchanges with 'It Ends with Us' Author Colleen Hoover

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Justin Baldoni is revealing early emails with Colleen Hoover, the author of It Ends With Us.

In the legal docs filed on Thursday (January 16) against co-star Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, Justin lays out screenshots of exchanges with the author, who ultimately came forward in support of Blake after the actress filed her legal complaint against Justin. “In 2019 Wayfarer acquired the film rights to It Ends With Us, a Colleen Hoover novel published in 2016.

Though positioned as a romance novel, the book explores themes of domestic violence and generational patterns of abuse, and these messages resonated deeply with readers and drew a passionate fanbase,” the suit reads. “In 2021, the novel exploded in popularity thanks to the social media phenomenon ‘BookTok.’ Many fans expressed how important the book was to them as survivors of domestic violence and intimate partner abuse,” the suit continues. “When It Ends With Us author Colleen Hoover watched Five Feet Apart in theaters, she told Baldoni, ‘you are the right person to make this movie’ (referring to It Ends With Us). Baldoni’s early emails to Hoover demonstrate his commitment to doing so in the manner he envisioned would be most impactful.

In fact, it was Hoover who suggested Baldoni portray ‘Ryle.’” Click through to read all of the email exchanges…