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Rebel Wilson memoir: entire chapter on Sacha Baron Cohen redacted from book in Australia

Differences in defamation law mean the chapter, which was published in the US and highly publicised, will be blacked out in the Australian edition

In the UK edition, published there on Thursday, Wilson describes it as “the worst experience of my professional life”, with a new line adding that her account “can’t be printed here due to peculiarities of the law in England and Wales”. “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,” they said. On Wednesday, Baron Cohen’s representatives issued a statement about the UK edition’s redactions, saying: “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.

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