Rebel Wilson’s tell-all memoir, “Rebel Rising,” has finally been published in the UK. However, some of the contents have been redacted, with black lines appearing over some of her claims about Sacha Baron Cohen.
After the allegations were detailed in the US version of the book, a spokesperson for the Ali G creator said: ‘While we appreciate the importance of speaking out, these demonstrably false claims are directly contradicted by extensive detailed evidence, including contemporaneous documents, film footage, and eyewitness accounts from those present before, during and after the production of The Brothers Grimsby.’
The 2016 film – simply called Grimsby in the UK – saw Rebel cast as Dawn Grobham, the girlfriend of Sacha Baron Cohen’s character Nobby.
The UK version of the memoir includes a reference to ‘the worst experience of my professional life. An incident that left me feeling bullied, humiliated and compromised.’ It goes on to state: ‘It can’t be printed here due to the peculiarities of the law in England and Wales.’ The rest of the page is redacted, with black lines also removing shorter details elsewhere in the chapter.
The Bridesmaids star said her aim was not to cancel Baron Cohen with her recollections in the memoir, but to retell an experience which made her feel ‘completely disrespected, which led to me treating myself with even more disrespect by eating in an extremely unhealthy way’.
In the UK book, Rebel says she ‘rues the day’ she met Baron Cohen, who she describes as her ‘idol’.
