The Chronicle

Rebel reveals more on reaction

- Joshua Haigh

Rebel Wilson has confessed that she’s had numerous individual­s reach out and express their upset at being mentioned in her biography.

Wilson told Watch What Happens Live that she’s heard from people in her life via text messages since releasing her memoir, Rebel Rising, and the reactions have been “uncomforta­ble” at best for some.

She admitted that numerous people have told her that they needed to have some strong words about what she wrote about them in the book.

“I think sometimes when you share your truth it can make other people very uncomforta­ble. I have had a couple of texts and we’ll have to have some conversati­ons,” said the actress.

“Sometimes when other people read about themselves they … you know.”

“It’s my most intimate secrets, and my final release of them,” she added.

Wilson didn’t reveal who had reached but in the book she mentions the likes of Nicole Kidman, Russell Crowe and of course, Sacha Baron Cohen.

When quizzed during the same interview about if she would ever work with Baron Cohen again, Wilson remained adamant she wouldn’t, not even for “50 million dollars”.

Wilson’s new memoir, Rebel Rising, accuses the British comedic actor of “humiliatin­g and degrading” her on the set of Grimsby, a 2016 film in which they both starred.

She accused Baron Cohen of trying to block the release of the memoir, which labels him an “a..hole”.

“I will not be bullied or silenced by high-priced lawyers or PR crisis managers,” she wrote on Instagram last month.

The book’s Australian release, which was expected last week, has been delayed to “coincide with Rebel Wilson’s press tours”.

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