
Colleen Hoover makes a special plea to fans in a note to readers at the beginning of her new novel Woman Down.
in November gushed as it crowned Hoover the “new queen of Hollywood”. In September, journalist Kayla Webley Adler joined Hoover on the set of, Universal’s coming film adaptation of the author’s novel of the same name, for a lengthy discussion that even touched on the “circus” thatBestselling author Colleen Hoover has had to issue multiple disclaimers in the lead-up to the release of her new book Woman Down.
and had recurring health issues that I continued to put off until the movie was finished,” Hoover wrote in a December 18 message to her fans in a private Facebook group. “When I returned home, I found out I had cancer.”Hoover did not disclose the type of cancer but reassured her fans she was “OK”, and surgery to remove it had been successful.premiere and some other important career and personal moments,” she wrote. “I just wasn’t ready to share with anyone until I knew what the outcome would be.””I’m doing much better,” Hoover wrote. “My cancer diagnosis was a while ago but I chose to keep it private until after finding out my surgery was successful and what my other treatments would be.”, Hoover said a geneticist told her that her cancer was likely linked to environmental and lifestyle factors, including “a lack of exercise, poor diet and stress”. countersuit against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds and her publicist, citing defamation, invasion of privacy and civil extortion. A trial date for Lively’s case against Baldoni has been rescheduled to May. Hoover served as an executive producer on the film and was on set for a few days but toldNevertheless, by October Hoover was deposed in relation to the matter and says she and her mother now feel “PTSD” thinking about the novel. Its storyline – florist Lily Bloom ending a familial cycle of abuse – was inspired by Hoover’s mother. “I feel awful because I almost feel like gone through more with the aftermath of this film, more pain than she went through with my dad, just seeing the ugliness of it,” Hoover told”I can’t even recommend it any more. I feel like has overshadowed it … I’m almost embarrassed to say I wrote it.” Hoover, pictured here at a Regretting You fan screening in September, skyrocketed to household-name status in 2022 when #BookTok helped It Ends with Us shoot to No.1 on the New York Times Best Seller list.But it wasn’t the first she’s had to issue about the novel, in which “frustrated author” Petra Rose checks into a remote cabin to finish her next book. The character, per the novel’s synopsis, had been suffering from writer’s block after “viral backlash over her latest film adaptation forced Petra Rose to take a hiatus” and learns “the hard way what happens when the internet turns on you”., first published several years ago. “Please, I beg of you, do not try to make ties between my personal life and this story, as there are none,” Hoover writes.set over five months of filming. It’s the first of her adaptations Hoover has co-written and co-produced.”I’m going to fight tooth and nail for the story the readers supported … I’d rather have adaptations I’m proud of than adaptations that don’t even resemble their original forms.”
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