Colleen Hoover is opening up about the inspiration for her bestselling 2016 romance novel “It Ends With Us,” and it’s much more personal than readers may have realized.
At last week’s Book Bonanza — Hoover’s annual fundraising book festival in Texas where readers can meet and greet their favorite authors — the reigning queen of BookTok sat down with Jenna Bush Hager of “Today” and revealed some of the backstory. She also addressed the movie adaptation’s slight rewrite that had fans side-eyeing the casting of Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni.
The story, loosely based on the life of Hoover’s mother, follows Lily, a recent college graduate who grew up with an abusive father.
