Twilight Author Puts Rumors To Rest

Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart in Twilight.

New Moon continues filming.

Over the past few days, reports have been flying around that the filming of New Moon has come to a halt because Stephenie Meyer, author of the popular Twilight series, was being sued by her college roommate for plagiarism.

The reports were saying that Meyer's ex-roommate, Heidi Stanton, was suing Meyer claiming that the entire concept behind the Twilight saga was based on a short story Heidi wrote a long time ago.

Summit Entertainment released this statement, "This rumor is certainly NOT true. Please let your readers know." Now, Stephenie has taken to her blog to respond to these allegations saying that these rumors are completely false. We thought so, but it's great to hear it confirmed. Yesterday Meyer wrote:

There are a lot of things I should be doing updates on-for example, how awesome and successful the Book Babe event was, and how cool it was to meet all the other authors and hang out with them a little bit, and how much I appreciated all the tremendous support from the fans-but instead of commenting on happy things (which I admit I should have done a week ago; I was waiting for things to slow down for a day, silly me!), I'm commenting on ridiculous internet rumors so that my publicist's day will be just a little bit better.

I am not being sued. No one has contacted me or my publisher to inform either of us that I'm being sued. I never had a roommate named Heidi. There is no professor in the BYU English department named Dr. Peter Benton (though there is a character on ER by that name). And most of all, I began writing Twilight exactly the way I've told people in countless interviews and events for the past six years: I had a cool dream, I wrote it down, writing it down was really fun, so I kept writing until I had a whole book.

The sad thing about this silly situation is that so many legitimate news outlets reported it without doing any research at all to determine if there was any truth to the story. And at least two of these facts are really, really easy to confirm. Particularly, the one about the BYU professor. A simple on-line search can give you that information. Also, a quick call to my publisher would have cleared up the whole lawsuit story. (Kudos to the fansites who did their due diligence and debunked this rumor days ago.)

I guess the moral of the story is that-big surprise-you can't believe everything you read on the internet. Seems like it's April Fool's Day every day on-line. So no worries, the filming of New Moon continues uninterrupted. And, to end this on a bright note, the filming of New Moon continues to be awesome. It's all so beautiful! Chris Weitz is brilliant. Kristen, Rob, and Taylor are beyond words. I have gotten choked up more than once on set due to their amazing performances. I can't wait to see it all put together!

Steph