Colleen Hoover returned to Instagram one month after deactivating her account and wiped all photos of It Ends With Us leads Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni from her page amid their lawsuits.

Fans noticed that the New York Times bestselling author discreetly returned to the social media platform on Wednesday, February 12. However, she revamped her grid after deleting all traces of Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 41.

That said, Hoover, 45, kept screenshots of the news for her upcoming movie adaptations of Verity and Reminders of Him. Verity will star Dakota Johnson, Anne Hathaway and Josh Hartnett. Meanwhile, the cast of Reminders of Him has yet to be announced, but will be directed by Vanessa Caswill.

Although Hoover removed all images of the former It Ends With Us costars, she publicly supported the Gossip Girl star after she filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against Baldoni on December 20, 2024.

“@blakelively, you have been nothing but honest, kind, supportive and patient since the day we met,” Hoover wrote via Instagram Stories at the time. “Thank you for being exactly the human that you are. Never change. Never wilt.”

In the post, Hoover shared a photo of her and Lively hugging in front of the audience at what seemed to be a screening of the film.

In Lively’s filing, she accused Baldoni of displaying “inappropriate” behavior on the set of the film. The A Simple Favor actress claimed that she held a meeting with Baldoni, where she allegedly demanded “no more showing nude videos or images of women, including producer’s wife, to BL and/or her employees, no more mention of Mr. Baldoni’s ‘pornography addiction’ or BL’s lack of pornography consumption to BL or to other crew members and no more inquiries by Mr. Baldoni to BL’s trainer without her knowledge or consent to disclose her weight.”

Moreover, Lively accused Baldoni and his crisis management team, TAG P.R. (The Agency Group PR), of curating a smear campaign in an attempt to allegedly “ruin the lives of Ms. Lively and her family.”

Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, responded to Lively’s claims the day the news broke, deeming Lively’s accusations as “shameful” and “categorically false.”

Baldoni fired back at Lively’s claims by filing his own lawsuit on December 31, 2024, against the New York Times, who broke the news of Lively’s lawsuit.

“The Wayfarer team and their families, including Baldoni and [producer Jamey] Heath, were segregated from the main cast, barred from the exclusive after-party, and forced to organize their own event at additional cost,” the documents obtained by In Touch read. “Baldoni’s participation on the red carpet was cut short, and his family and friends were confined to a makeshift holding area in the basement before being escorted into a separate theater after Lively’s departure. Not only had Lively stolen the Film, but she also robbed Baldoni and his team of any genuine opportunity to celebrate their hard work.”

The publication denied Baldoni’s claims in a statement issued to Us Weekly on February 2.

“The Baldoni/Wayfarer legal filings are rife with inaccuracies about The New York Times, including, for example, the bogus claim that The Times had early access to Ms. Lively’s state civil rights complaint,” a New York Times spokesperson told Us Weekly at the time. “Mr. Baldoni’s lawyers base their erroneous claim on postings by amateur internet sleuths, who, not surprisingly, are wrong.”

The allegations continued when Baldoni sued Lively, her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and her publicist, Leslie Sloan, on January 16 for defamation, extortion and more.

Baldoni also accused Reynolds, 48, of “berating” Baldoni for allegedly “fat-shaming” his wife.

Lively and Baldoni’s legal battle got uglier by the day. On January 21, the Jane the Virgin alum released raw footage of a scene in It Ends With Us, the same moment Lively claimed her counterpart “slowly dragged his lips from her ear and down her neck as he said, ‘It smells so good.’”

While Badoni proclaimed his innocence in the scene, Lively’s team doubled down on their claims, stating, “Every frame of the released footage corroborates, to the letter, what Ms. Lively described in Paragraph 48 of her Complaint.”

Lively and Reynolds requested a judge dismiss Baldoni’s lawsuit on January 30, two days before Baldoni launched a website that was listed as a “Timeline of Relevant Events.” The contents of the website not only featured Baldoni’s lawsuit, but also featured alleged texts between himself, Lively and Reynolds.

Both Baldoni and Lively have denied the allegations made against them.