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Director on why It Ends With Us film of Colleen Hoover novel could not make abuse romantic
- It Ends With Us actor and director Justin Baldoni and author Colleen Hoover on showing why women are slow to escape abusive relationships
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One of Colleen Hoover’s earliest memories, she has said, is of her father hurling a television at her mother. For years, Hoover struggled to reconcile how her mother found herself in an abusive relationship.
The victim blaming, she said in a recent interview, gave way to empathy as she wrote It Ends With Us, her 2016 novel about a woman who escapes from domestic violence.
Hoover found herself in awe of her mother, who had divorced her husband when Hoover was two years old.
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“My mother being able to break that cycle when we were so young gave her this power to teach us what we deserved,” said Hoover, now 44 and living near her mother in Saltillo, the small town some 150 kilometres (93 miles) east of Dallas, in the US state of Texas, where she grew up. “It really is a testament to how one person can break a cycle for generations to come.”
It Ends With Us rocketed to the top of bestseller charts several years after its publication, when it was discovered and promoted by literary fans on TikTok. As of 2022, 4 million copies had been sold, according to the book’s publisher.
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