Colleen Hoover, Author of "It Ends With Us," Is Finally Talking

Colleen Hoover, the author of It Ends With Us, with Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively. She's finally talking, out today in Elle magazine. They did an interview, let's read it together. It's just out. So Colleen served as an executive producer on the film It Ends With Us, of course, because she owned the material, wrote the book. She was on set for a few days of the filming. She says she has a brief cameo. But otherwise, she said she was, quote, So Colleen says she founds the whole mess unfortunate and disappointing. It feels like a circus, she said. When there are real people involved with real feelings and emotions, she said, this actually, truly has impacted some of the actor's careers in huge ways. And I just find it all sad. Yeah, okay. She's obviously choosing her words very carefully here. 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. We want your attention to it, honey. 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. I feel like it's so big at this point that there's nothing anyone can say to change whatever opinion people have of it, even though no one has the actual truth, not even me. Oh, you don't have the truth, you say? Well, then why did you unfollow Justin Baldoni and swing right over to Blake Lively's side? Because what? Believe her? Because Blake Lively said it? And you drop this guy like a hot rock? Six people wanted the intellectual property to make a film of this book. And you chose him, the one male out of the whole group, because you were so impressed with him. Met with him a million times. He wrote you a beautiful letter. And then everything you your instincts told you about this person, you dropped like a hot rock. As soon as Blake Lively said, he has aged me. No, you did that because of opportunity. You did that because you wanted to be in the Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively sphere of influence in Hollywood. And now she's regretting it, I think. And she said, I don't really know what happened. We all know what happened. Colleen, read the receipts. They're out there. It's obvious.