Rebel Wilson’s Sacha Baron Cohen allegations covered with black lines in UK edition of memoir-Kitty Chrisp-Entertainment – Metro

Very, er, subtle (Picture: PA/Rex)

Rebel Wilson’s memoir Rebel Rising has finally been published in the UK – but some of its contents has been redacted, with black lines appearing over some of her claims about Sacha Baron Cohen. 

The 44-year-old Pitch Perfect star’s tell-all memoir, which has already been published in its original form in the US, features an entire chapter called Sacha Baron Cohen and Other A**holes. 

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.’ 

Rebel Wilson’s memoir has been published in the UK (Picture: Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images)

It’s had legal changes, making it different from the published book in the USA (Picture: Getty Images)

The UK copy has actual black lines through it (Picture: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire)

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’.

Rebel has previously spoken about her time filming the movie, telling Australian outlet Kiss FM she had been pressured to do nude scenes – claims which lawyers for Sacha say are ‘demonstrably false’.

In 2014, she told the radio station: ‘Every single day he’s like, “Rebel, can you just go naked in this scene?” And I’m like, “No.” Sacha and I have the same agent in America and I’m like, “Sacha, I’m going to call our agent Sharon and tell her how much you are harassing me.”‘

Rebel and Sacha co-starred in the 2016 film The Brother Grimsby (Picture: ENTERPRISE NEWS AND PICTURES)

Rebel also revealed aspects of her private life in the memoir, which is available to buy in the UK now (Picture: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire)

She added at the time that he told her ‘just go naked, it will be funny. Remember in Borat when I did that naked scene? It was hilarious.’

On the day the nude scene was to be filmed, a body double acted in Rebel’s place, but he then allegedly asked her ‘Rebel, can you just stick your finger up my butt?’ even though it was ‘not in the script.’

‘And he’s like, “Look, I’ll just pull down my pants, you just stick your finger up my butt, it’ll be a really funny bit.”‘ She said she declined the offer, but as a compromise said ‘I’ll slap you once on the butt and that’s it.’

Elsewhere in the memoir, Rebel revealed she lost her virginity aged 35 to How To Be Single co-star Micky Gooch Jr.

Rebel will be discussing her book on a UK tour later this month, with appearances in Edinburgh, Manchester and London.

She will speak to comedian and Loose Women star Judi Love in Edinburgh and Manchester on April 24 and 26 respectively, and will speak to broadcaster Fearne Cotton at the London Palladium on April 29.

Representatives for Baron Cohen and publisher Harper Collins have been contacted for comment.

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