Blake Lively received support from "It Ends with Us" author Colleen Hoover following her sexual harassment lawsuit against the film's director, Justin Baldoni.

Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni on Friday, accusing him of engaging in sexual harassment on the set of the film. However, his lawyer responded by calling Lively's allegations "false."

Baldoni has since suffered a setback as he was dropped by the talent agency that represented him, while he admitted in a re-interview in 2021 that he had an "unhealthy" relationship with pornography.

After news of Lively's legal action against Baldoni made headlines, Hoover took to her Instagram stories to support the actress. On Saturday, the author published a picture of her and Lively hugging at the screening of the film "It Ends With Us".

In the caption of the post, Hoover wrote, "@blakelively, from the day we met you have been nothing but honest, kind, supportive and patient."

Hoover concluded, "Thank you for being the man you are. Never change. Never will." She also added a link to New York The Times article about the lawsuit.

In her lawsuit, the 37-year-old actress claimed to be Baldoni engaged in sexual misconduct on a movie set. So a meeting was called to clarify her concerns, and Baldoni and his production company agreed to several of her requests.

Some of Lively's demands included: "No more showing nude videos or pictures of women to Blake, no more mentioning Baldoni's alleged past pornography addiction, and no more discussing sexual conquests in front of Blake and others."

Lively also claimed that Baldoni and his team ran a smear campaign against her shortly after the meeting. As proof of her claims, she cited private emails and messages between him and his crisis PR representatives.

The mother of four said she hopes her legal action "will help pull back the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak up about misconduct and help protect others who may be targeted."

It didn't take long for Baldoni's attorney, Brian Friedman, to respond to Lively's lawsuit. He did so by means of a statement for The New York Times.

Freedman stated, "It is disgraceful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false allegations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and his representatives."

Baldoni's attorney also said Lively's allegations against his client in her lawsuit are "another desperate attempt to 'repair' her negative reputation."

Freedman described Lively's claims as "completely false, outrageous and deliberately twisted with the intent to publicly hurt and repeat the narrative in the media".

Not long after news of Lively's lawsuit hit the headlines, he suffered a major blow after being dropped by WME, the talent agency that represented him. WME, which also represents Lively, has not released further details about its actions.

Meanwhile, Baldoni spoke about his past addiction to pornography in a July 2021 re-interview. The director was a guest on Sarah Grynberg's episode "A life of greatness" podcast and opened up about his previous "unhealthy" relationship with pornography.

During the interview, Baldoni admitted that he turned to pornography for "refuge" when he felt lonely, abandoned or hurt, adding that it served as a source of "dopamine".

He discovered per Page Six"I've trained my brain to deal with pain with a dopamine hit... But that doesn't mean I'm not using something in an unhealthy way."

Baldoni also shared, "And I found myself, throughout my life, going back to looking at pictures and videos of naked women when I felt necessarily bad about myself. And I knew that was a problem for me when I told myself not to." I want to work."

Rumors of trouble between Baldoni and Lively began circulating on Aug. 6, after the pair were not photographed together at the world premiere of "It Ends with Us" in New York.

Baldoni was not photographed with any of the actors in the film, although Lively had several shots with her co-stars. It was also noted that Lively unfollowed Baldoni on Instagram. Fans also noticed that Baldoni did interviews for the film by himself, while the other cast members did interviews together.

Despite these and other observations, neither Baldoni nor Lively have spoken directly about their feud, although they have discussed their experiences while making the film.