Colleen Hoover is standing by Blake Lively after the actress filed a sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit against Justin Baldoni.

The It ends with us The author showed her support for Lively, who starred in the Baldoni-directed adaptation of her 2016 novel, with some kind words on her Instagram Story after Lively filed a lawsuit with the California Department of Civil Rights on Friday.

“Since the day we met, you have been nothing but honest, kind, supportive and patient,” she wrote, tagging Lively and linking to coverage of the lawsuit. “Thank you for being exactly the person you are. Never change. Will never wither.”

Lively had previously accused her director and co-star, as well as his production company Wayfarer Studios and others in the domestic violence film, of sexually harassing her and then taking “coordinated actions to destroy her reputation.”

“I hope my legal action will help lift the curtain on these sinister retaliatory tactics to harm people who speak out about wrongdoing and protect others who may be targeted,” Lively said in a statement to Deadline .

Baldoni, who has since been dropped by WME, called the allegations through his attorney Bryan Freedman “completely false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with the intent to publicly offend and rehash a media narrative.”

Still, in a lengthy 10-count complaint he filed yesterday with the California Department of Civil Rights, Lively goes into detail about “the hostile work environment that nearly derailed the film’s production” and the multi-pronged “astroturfing” campaign he allegedly launched against it them by the self-proclaimed feminist Baldoni and his company.

“Mr. Baldoni and his Wayfarer associates launched an elaborate press and digital plan in retaliation for Ms. Lively’s exercise of her legally protected right to speak about her on-set misconduct, with the additional goal of intimidating her and everyone else, what to reveal in public “It actually happened,” says the 80-page complaint, replete with seemingly damning text messages between Baldoni and “a crisis communications specialist named Melissa Nathan and her company The Agency Group PR LLC.” (LABEL).”

Full of cameo appearances from Lively’s husband Ryan Reynolds, his pal Taylor Swift and others, as well as obvious examples of media manipulation bravado for Baldoni, e.g. b New York PostThe Daily Mail and others, filing with the state agency is a clear prelude to further action in court unless the parties reach an agreement as quickly as possible. Furthermore, despite Hollywood heavyweight Freedman’s detailed response, a post-holiday response from Wayfarer is almost certain.

While tensions on and off the set of the film, which is based on Hoover’s novel of the same name, were quite evident at the time It ends with usWhen published in August, Lively’s record appears to reveal a much deeper decay. With TAG’s “undetectable” strategy of “astroturfing” for “social manipulation,” as texts and other extensive communications between Team Baldoni demonstrate, Lively’s action also illuminates the crucial power that social media now has in PR tactics, in shaping messages and the control narrative of the modern star machine and its introduction through fact and fiction.