As a survivor of domestic violence, Jana Kramer has some thoughts about Blake Lively ’s It Ends With Us promotion. “I would love the messaging to go to DV with media, instead of talking about riffs and everything else. The movie is about domestic violence,” Kramer, 40, stated on the Monday, August 26, episode of her “Whine Down” podcast .
“I haven’t seen the movie. I have a tough time watching movies that deal with domestic violence given my history with it.” Lively, 37, has faced some criticism for not focusing enough on the film’s domestic violence messaging in press for the movie.
Kramer, for her part, was under the assumption It Ends With Us was a “rom-com, bring your girls to the movie[s]” type of film based on its promotion before being informed of the story. “Then I started hearing stuff about the interviews, and for me, I was just, like, it made me sad because I just want the messaging to be about domestic violence and how to help people and how to get help,” she said. Based on author Colleen Hoover ’s 2016 book of the same name, It Ends With Us follows Lily Bloom (Lively) as her relationship with a neurosurgeon named Ryle ( Justin Baldoni ) turns abusive around the same time she reconnects with her childhood love, Atlas ( Brandon Sklenar ).
Kramer went on to note that “it’s hard for people to talk about domestic violence when they haven’t, themselves, been, in real life, had the hands of domestic violence on them.” She added: “So.