Rebel Wilson has been accused in court of being a liar who made up terrible claims about her colleagues and completely rewrote history.<\/p>\n
The Pitch Perfect star copped the blunt assessment in the dying hours of a fiery defamation battle where she is being sued by Charlotte MacInnes, the lead actor in musical comedy The Deb which Wilson directed, co-produced and starred in.<\/p>\n
MacInnes claims Wilson defamed her in a series of social media posts that suggested she is a liar and a sellout who walked back a sexual misconduct complaint to further her career.<\/p>\n
The posts claimed MacInnes confided to the older actor \u2013 and later recanted \u2013 she felt uncomfortable when the film\u2019s co-producer Amanda Ghost asked to have a shower and a bath together.<\/p>\n
MacInnes denies making or retracting a complaint, insisting she was not uncomfortable when the pair shared a bath in their swimwear after Ghost suffered a medical episode in September 2023.<\/p>\n
MacInnes\u2019 barrister Sue Chrysanthou SC accused Wilson of a \u201ccomplete revision of history\u201d littered with dishonesty during her emphatic closing address in the Federal Court on Friday.<\/p>\n
She noted the Bridesmaids actor testified she told local producer Greer Simpkin about the alleged complaint on the day it was made to her, but that had been contradicted in court.<\/p>\n
Simpkin gave evidence she had not heard that Wilson claimed her co-star felt uncomfortable about the incident until it was relayed by Ghost a week later.<\/p>\n
It was just one example of glaring inconsistencies in Wilson\u2019s evidence which has been repudiated by others, Chrysanthou told the court.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe is a fantastical liar who has made up terrible, terrible allegations about multiple people and her own witnesses have discredited her,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe say Ms Wilson cannot be believed on anything she has said.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first-time director lied to Ghost about receiving a complaint to create division between her and MacInnes, whom she sought to paint as a troublemaker, Ms Chrysanthou said.<\/p>\n
A text from Wilson which accused the young actor of leaking information to the film\u2019s writer makes it clear she was set on undermining MacInnes\u2019 relationships with others, she argued.<\/p>\n
The uncontested facts of the bathroom incident are a medical episode occurred, no one felt uncomfortable and a witness didn\u2019t think anything untoward happened.<\/p>\n
\u201cOne can hardly imagine a less sexy environment for some kind of harassment to occur \u2013 shaking and hives and tea provided by (the witness),\u201d Chrysanthou told the court.<\/p>\n
MacInnes has suffered devastating harm as a result of the social media posts and hasn\u2019t worked since she starred in a stage production \u2013 a role which she had previously secured, her barrister said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy client has been unable to eat, unable to sleep, has been distressed \u2026 (she) fears what Rebel Wilson is going to do to her next,\u201d Chrysanthou said.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo young woman dreams of being pulled into the spotlight by a celebrity and maligned\u201d.<\/p>\n
But Wilson testified the young star doesn\u2019t appear to have sustained any damage to her reputation or career, pointing to the lead role and a six-figure record deal MacInnes has secured.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe\u2019s changed her story, she\u2019s flip-flopped and she\u2019s been given huge benefits,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Wilson gave evidence she had seen many photos of MacInnes on international trips and in expensive hotels, some of which had been sent to her by the \u2018I hate Amanda Ghost fanclub\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cPrior to The Deb she was relatively unknown and (I) understood she did not have the means to travel around the world in luxury,\u201d the A-lister wrote in her affidavit.<\/p>\n
Her barrister Dauid Sibtain SC will begin his closing remarks on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rebel Wilson has been accused in court of being a liar who made up terrible claims about her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":945496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3940],"tags":[4080,77,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-945495","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116537575841648787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=945495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/945495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=945495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=945495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=945495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}