Rebel Wilson addresses Sacha Baron Cohen allegations during live interview

Rebel Wilson makes admission as she addresses Sacha Baron Cohen Source: ITV

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00:00the chapter that's all about lots of different people you met but

00:03Sacha Baron Cohen is one of them. Yeah I noticed the media tends to pick up on

00:08that chapter which is just a small part. It is a small part but it's created

00:12quite a lot of controversy. Yeah. The chapter's redacted over here as

00:17well. Yeah I think there's about a page and a

00:19half that is redacted which I mean all I would read into that is

00:24you know someone who's expressed that they're litigious

00:28and sometimes the way the defamation laws are, me being

00:31legally trained. You're a lawyer. I know quite a lot about this.

00:34You know somebody with some wealth and power

00:38can sometimes use the laws to their advantage and you know

00:41and so that's just the book publisher mitigating their risk.

00:45He said he denied all the claims that are made in the book, putting full

00:48suits against the law in the UK and Australia. It's not a peculiarity as

00:51you've described the fact it's redacted here in

00:53Australia. It's a legal principle that existed for many hundreds of years.

00:56It's a clear victory for Sacha Baron Cohen and confirms what we've said from the

00:59beginning that it's demonstrably false and a shameful and failed effort to sell

01:02books. Well okay that's interesting but

01:04obviously this is a story that I've told since

01:07it happened about 10 years ago and I mean whatever, it's his right to

01:11say whatever he wants and I'm not about

01:14cancelling people. I'm about sharing my story and that

01:17happened to be the worst experience of my career

01:20and I'm sharing it in the hopes that you know that kind of stuff happens less

01:24in the industry and I've learned definitely firsthand

01:28it is very hard to speak up against somebody in

01:32in the public eye and so I really respect people that do

01:35do come out and say stuff because I have learned firsthand like how hard it can

01:39be. And all these moments in the book, no matter how difficult or hard they

01:42were, inform where you are now. Correct. Yeah exactly and I guess why I

01:46wanted to write about that experience because

01:48it did happen 10 years ago. If I was the woman I am now

01:53I would have left that set, I wouldn't have continued.