Sacha Baron Cohen Breaks Silence On Rebel Wilson’s Memoir Redaction

The update comes after the Hollywood stars have been at loggerheads since Wilson publicized her plan to write about her experience working with Cohen in a chapter dubbed “Sacha Baron Cohen and Other A-sholes.” 

A new report claims that the UK edition of Wilson’s memoir, “Rebel Rising,” will feature redacted passages concerning her time on set with Baron Cohen. 

The pair had worked together on the 2016 comedy movie, “Grimsby,” titled “The Brothers Grimsby” for its US release. In light of the news, representatives of Baron Cohen issued a statement declaring:

“Harper Collins did not fact check this chapter in the book prior to publication and took the sensible but terribly belated step of deleting Rebel Wilson’s defamatory claims once presented with evidence that they were false.”

“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 many hundreds of years,” they stated.

The representatives also noted that the redaction “is a clear victory” for the English writer, which confirmed their earlier claims about this being “demonstrably false, in a shameful and failed effort to sell books.”

In the aforementioned chapter, Wilson writes, “SBC summoned me via a production assistant saying that I was needed to film an additional scene.”

“What followed was the worst experience of my professional life. An incident that left me feeling bullied, humiliated, and compromised. It can’t be printed here due to peculiarities of the law in England and Wales”. 

According to The Guardian, the remainder of the page in the book is blacked out. Several additional lines are also redacted on the subsequent pages. Commenting on the changes, a spokesperson for Harper Collins told the news outlet:

“We are publishing every page, but for legal reasons, in the UK edition, we are redacting most of one page with some other small redactions and an explanatory note. Those sections are a very small part of a much bigger story.”