Rebel Wilson has lost her legal battle with her former Grimsby co-star Sacha Baron Cohen to ensure an intact version of her book Rebel Rising is published in Australia.
What the Loss Means
Even though the book has already been published in the US, but the Aussie readers will not be able to read the chapter.
Instead, a redacted version of the 44-year-old’s memoir will be published in Australia and New Zealand, in which the entire chapter where she accused Cohen of inappropriate onset behaviour will be blacked out.
When the Memoir Will Be Released in Australia?
‘For legal reasons we have redacted one chapter in the Australian/New Zealand edition and included an explanatory note accordingly,’ publisher HarperCollins Australia confirmed in a statement.
‘That chapter is a very small part of a much bigger story and we’re excited for readers to know Rebel’s story when the book is released, on Wednesday 8 May.’
Why it Was Blacked Out
The blacked out chapter was titled ‘Sacha Baron Cohen and Other A**holes’ and described the allegedly inappropriate manner Cohen behaved towards her on the set of the 2016 comedy movie Grimsby.
Words From Sacha Baron’s Camp
A spokesperson for Baron Cohen said this move was a clear victory for the actor: ‘Harper Collins did not fact check this chapter in the book prior to publication. Took the sensible but belated step of deleting Wilson’s defamatory claims.
‘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 hundreds of years. This is a clear victory for Sacha Baron Cohen.’
