Rebel WilsonWhen the book is published in the UK this week, the author’s memoirs won’t feature the author’s biggest bangs.
According to several reports, Wilson’s book contains Rebel uprisingThe allegations she has made will not be taken into account Sacha Baron Cohen after the book’s publisher, HarperCollins, edited the passages. Accordingly The guardIt all depends on legal reasons.
“We publish every page, but for legal reasons in the UK edition we redact most of a page with a few other small redactions and an explanation,” a spokesman for the publishing giant said. “These sections are a very small part of a much larger story.”
Rebel uprising After being published (via Simon & Schuster) in the US earlier this month, it hit bookstores on Thursday. The book will be published in August in Australia, Wilson’s homeland.
The move will take place after Pitch perfect star first teased in March that she would call the A-list “an asshole” who she vowed never to work with again.
“When I first came to Hollywood, people said, ‘Yeah, I have a no asshole policy. I don’t work with assholes. “I thought, ‘Oh yeah, that sounds sensible and logical,’ but then I really realized what they mean by that, the older people in the industry,” Wilson said on Instagram. “Because I worked with a huge asshole and, yeah, I definitely have a no asshole policy. A chapter about this asshole is Chapter 23. This guy was a huge asshole.”
Wilson later claimed it was Cohen, who she also claimed threatened her with legal action.
“I will not be bullied or silenced by expensive lawyers or PR crisis managers,” Wilson wrote. “The ‘A**hole’ I’m talking about in ONE CHAPTER of my book is: Sacha Baron Cohen.”
Wilson claimed in her memoir that Cohen pressured her to do streaks in her 2016 film. The Brothers Grimsby, even though her film contract contained a nudity clause. The film eventually featured a body double for the streaking scene. She also claimed that Cohen asked her to come to his trailer, where he allegedly urged her to stick a finger in his butt for a scene in the film.
“Now I was scared. I wanted to get out of there, so I finally compromised: I slapped him and improvised a few lines as the character.” Wilson writes Rebel uprising.
Cohen, through his spokesman, denied the claims in a statement to ET.
“While we know the importance of speaking out, these demonstrably false claims are directly refuted by extensive detailed evidence, including contemporary documents, footage and eyewitness accounts from those present before, during and after production The Brothers Grimsby“says the statement.
Shortly afterwards, Cohen’s wife said, Wedding Crashers star Isla Fisherannounced that she requested an end to their marriage last year after 13 years together. Despite the timing a source told ET that the breakup news has nothing to do with the claims made by Cohen’s former co-star.
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