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Sacha Baron Cohen Allegations Redacted in U.K. Edition of Rebel Wilson Memoir
“For legal reasons,” publisher HarperCollins says.
On April 24, publisher HarperCollins confirmed passages and select lines relating to the bullying claims against Baron Cohen will appear blacked out, the Guardian reported. “What followed was the worst experience of my professional life,” Wilson writes in the U.K. edition, alluding to the allegations she made against Cohen in the original. A spokesperson for Baron Cohen describes the removal as a “victory,” adding “HarperCollins 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,” a spokesperson for the actor told Variety in a statement.
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