Newly unsealed text messages could shine a light on what It Ends With Us author Colleen Hoover really thought of Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively's drama. According to new documents obtained by Us Weekly on Tuesday, January 20, Hoover, 46, and Lively, 38, exchanged text messages in July 2024 about their experience working on the film. "I literally don't know a single thing I've done that he can smear me about. Ryan [Reynolds] says he should be writing me apology and thank you letters every day. And instead he chooses to make a monster outta me," Lively wrote via text. "But what's my crime.