After deactivating her Instagram, rumors began to swirl that It Ends With Us creator Colleen Hoover is retiring from writing. The Instagram hiatus comes after Justin Baldoni and Blake Energetic‘s heated authorized battle after the actress accused the director for sexual harassment.
Colleen Hoover’s breakout novel It Ends With Us was launched in 2016. A sequel, It Begins With Us, was subsequently launched in 2022. In July 2019, Justin Baldoni optioned the novel for a movie adaptation to be produced by means of his Wayfarer Studios. The guide collection skyrocketed in reputation due to BookTok and reached number one on The New York Occasions Greatest Vendor record.
After the discharge of the film, Energetic filed authorized motion towards Baldoni, producer Jamey Heath, and publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel on December 31. The New York Occasions printed an article titled “‘We Can Bury Anybody’: Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine” together with the allegations of sexual harrassment towards the director. Hoover expressed her assist for Energetic in an Instagram publish. Shortly after, Baldoni filed a lawsuit towards the newspaper looking for $40 million in damages, and later sued Energetic and Reynolds for $400 million in damages.
In Baldoni’s lawsuit towards Energetic, the director offered textual content proof of his correspondences with Hoover. Hoover expressed in her emails that she was in favor of Baldoni directing the movie adaptation of It Ends With Us and that she reccomended that he needs to be starring as Ryle, Energetic’s love curiosity. Hoover later deactivated her Instagram on January 22, 2025.
Is Colleen Hoover retiring from writing?
Sources informed gossip Instagram account DeuxMoi that Colleen Hoover was allegedly retiring from writing. The blind merchandise comes after the truth that the creator had deactivated her Instagram, with sources saying that it was a call to maintain her distanced from the drama. Nevertheless, Simon & Schuster UK has acquired two standalone novels by Colleen Hoover, supposedly to be printed in 2024 and 2026.
Colleen Hoover beforehand expressed some remorse after not having the ability to write in 2024 “Within the final perhaps yr and a half, closing in on two years, I haven’t written in any respect and I really feel numerous guilt for that,” she informed Folks. “However I’ve additionally been extraordinarily busy, and my thoughts has been elsewhere.” She additionally added that changing into empty nesters has additionally influenced her habits, saying, “A number of stuff has simply occurred in my life the place writing has sort of gone on the again burner for some time.
The BookTok creator opened up in regards to the struggles of a writing in a dry spell. “Generally, there’ve been different occasions, I’ve gone six months or extra with out having the ability to write something, and I get simply so into my very own head and depressed, however then it at all times comes,” she says. “And so I simply attempt to keep in mind that it’s been working to this point for this lengthy. You’re not performed. It’ll come. Your mind’s busy proper now.”
Regardless of the setbacks, she’ll at all times say that writing is her old flame. “I would like to put in writing; it’s my remedy. I simply haven’t had that second the place I sit down and get the guide began sufficient to the place I turn out to be obsessive about it and end it,” she defined to the location. “How writing goes for me… I’ve to really feel that want to put in writing and forego sleep and consuming and talking to anybody and simply get this guide out. And sadly, I haven’t had time for that to occur. So I’m hopeful that it’s coming.”