Rebel Wilson has named and shamed an A-list "a**hole" from her memoir after facing legal intervention by "high-priced" lawyers.
In her upcoming memoir titled Rebel Rising - which details her "unconventional journey" to finding success in Hollywood after growing up in Australia - the 44-year-old opened up about an unnamed celebrity who she says confirmed her stance that she doesn't want to work with "a**holes" in her career.
Taking to her Instagram Reels on March 15, she said: "When I first came to Hollywood, people were like, yeah, ‘I have a no a**hole policy, [it] means like, yeah, I don’t work with a**holes.’ I was like, 'oh yeah. I mean, that sounds sensible or logical.'
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"But then it really sunk in [what they, the older people in the industry, meant] because I worked with a massive a**hole and yeah, now I definitely have a no a**holes policy," she continued.
The star then hinted that her fans could get more insight into the issue in chapter 23 of her book adding: "That guy was a massive a**hole."
While at the time she did not name who she was referring to, an alleged incident between her and the anonymous star's lawyers over the weekend provoked her to directly name the culprit and it was none other than comedy legend, Sacha Baron Cohen.
"I wrote about an a**hole in my book. Now, said a**hole is trying to threaten me," Wilson said in a now-deleted Instagram Story as per a report by Us Weekly. "He’s hired a crisis PR manager and lawyers. He is trying to stop press coming out about my book. But the book WILL come out, and you will all know the truth."
In a separate follow-up Story, she added: "I will not be bullied or silenced by high priced lawyers or PR crisis managers. The 'a**hole' that I am talking about in ONE CHAPTER of my book is: Sacha Baron Cohen."
Wilson and Baron Cohen worked together on the 2016 comedy Grimsby where the Pitch Perfect alum played the girlfriend of Baron Cohen's character Nobby, but even prior to the release of the movie, it seemed as though the pair had a brewing feud.
Back in 2014, when production for the movie had just begun, Australia’s Courier and Mail newspaper reported on comments Wilson made to the radio show Kyle and Jackie O about her time working alongside Baron Cohen.
"Sacha is so outrageous," Wilson said at the time. "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.'"
"Every day he’s like, 'Just go naked, it will be funny." she continued. "Remember in Borat when I did that naked scene? It was hilarious.' On the last day I thought I’d obviously won the argument, and he got a body double to do the naked scene."
However, that allegedly did not stop the actor from trying to crank things up in notch in the name of being "funny."
"Then in the last scene... he was like, 'Rebel can you just stick your finger up my butt?’ And I went, 'What do you mean Sacha? That’s not in the script,'" she added. "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.'"
In the end, the pair agreed on Wilson's character slapping Baron Cohen's character's butt.
Rebel Rising is set to be released on April 2 globally in hardcover, ebook, and audio format.
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