Several of Blake Lively's family and friends have publicly rallied around her amid her legal battle against Justin Baldoni.

After the actress filed a sexual harassment and retaliation complaint against her It Ends With Us director and costar with the California Civil Rights Department, they shared messages of support for her on social media.

The list includes author Colleen Hoover, who wrote the novel on which the movie is based.

"@blakelively, you have been nothing but honest, kind, supportive and patient since the day we met," the writer wrote on her Instagram Stories Dec. 21, the day the complaint was made public, alongside a photo of herself and the actress hugging in a crowded theater. "Thank you for being exactly the human that you are. Never change. Never wilt."

In It Ends With Us, Lively plays florist Lily Bloom who becomes the victim of domestic violence after beginning a relationship with Baldoni's character, a Boston neurosurgeon.