The biography of actress Rebel Wilson (44) is republished in the United Kingdom and Australia a few weeks after its release in other countries. The book will be published there in an adapted form. The passages about her alleged unpleasant work experience with comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (52) have been edited.
The book was pulled from the shelves in the United Kingdom and her native Australia shortly after its release. At the time it was reported that this was done so that the new release date would coincide with her promotional tour. It now appears that the book had to be adapted for ‘legal reasons’. Some passages have been deleted or edited and have been explained, publisher HarperCollins says The Guardian.
Rebel has not yet responded to the news. Sacha Baron Cohen’s spokesperson is happy with the adjustments. “Harper Collins did not fact-check this chapter in the book before publication and took the sensible but terribly belated step of removing Rebel Wilson’s defamatory claims as soon as evidence was presented that they were false.”
In her biography Rebel Rising the actress accuses the comedian of misconduct. She writes, among other things, that the actor misbehaved on the set of The Brothers Grimsby (2016). He allegedly dropped his pants and asked her to put her finger in his anus in one scene of the film. Sacha denies the story and, according to Rebel, has tried with lawyers to prevent him from being mentioned in her book.
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