Rebel Wilson has revealed why she decided to lift the lid on the alleged “worst experience of her career” working with Sacha Baron Cohen.
The Australian actress has made a series of shocking claims about working with the British actor in her upcoming memoir Rebel Rising, which he has firmly denied.
The pair worked together on the 2016 comedy Grimsby, in which she played the role of Dawn – who was his character Nobby’s wife.
During An Evening With Rebel Wilson at the London Palladium on Monday evening, Rebel stated that if she were the person she is today she would have left the project.
Fearne Cotton, who hosted the evening with Rebel, asked her about the revelations: “Have you healed from it and mentally recovered?”
Rebel responded: “I mean it was over 10 years ago so I have moved on from it. But it was a bad experience and I felt humiliated and I had a bit of shame surrounding it because I should have left.”
“I would have left I was the person I am today. But he was a bigger star and we had the same agent so there was a conflict of interest.”
“I felt like I had to finish the job and that was what was professional but if I was the person I am today I would have left.”
“I wanted to write the story for if anyone is going through something like that to give them perspective on it if they are feeling shame. It released some of that shame by writing about it.”
Last week, Sacha Baron Cohen broke his silence after the actress’ memoir was redacted in the UK.
The copies in the UK have blacked out certain parts of this chapter due to what the Austrailian branded “peculiarities” of English law.
Sacha’s legal team have made a statement calling this decision a win for the actor, after he repeatedly said the claims were false.
They said, according to Deadline: “HarperCollins did not fact check this chapter in the book prior to publication and took the sensible but terribly belated step of deleting Rebel Wilson’s defamatory claims once presented with evidence that they were false.”
“Printing falsehoods is against the law in the UK and Australia; this is not a ”peculiarity” as Ms Wilson said, but a legal principle that has existed for many hundreds of years.”
“This is a clear victory for Sacha Baron Cohen and confirms what we said from the beginning – that this is demonstrably false,” they added.
