Rebel Wilson memoir to be published in Australia with chapter redacted

Rebel Wilson’s tell-all memoir is set to be released in Australia next month but one chapter will be missing.

The Australian and New Zealand editions of Aussie actress Rebel Wilson’s tell-all memoir will be published with redactions, the publisher has confirmed.

It comes after the UK version, set to hit shelves on Thursday, will be published without controversial passages about Sacha Baron Cohen.

Rebel Rising will finally go on sale in Australia on May 8 following its launch in the US earlier this month.

Publisher HarperCollins confirmed the ANZ edition will exclude one chapter, but was not specific about which.

“For legal reasons we have redacted one chapter in the ANZ edition and included an explanatory note accordingly. That chapter is a very small part of a much bigger story and we’re excited for readers to know Rebel’s story when the book is released, on Wednesday 8 May,” a spokesperson for publisher Harper Collins said.

Sacha Baron Cohen and Rebel Wilson in a scene from the comedy movie Grimsby. Picture: Roadshow Pictures.

Wilson slams comedian Baron Cohen in a chapter entitled Sacha Baron Cohen and Other A**holes over his alleged conduct when she appeared in his 2016 film Grimsby.

She alleges the comedian pressured her to film a nude scene, which she refused to do.

She said her experiences with Baron Cohen had prompted her to adopt a “no a**holes” policy in deciding who she works with, and had said that she’d warned many other people away from working with him.

Baron Cohen has strongly denied Wilson’s claims, with a spokesman calling them “demonstrably false” and “directly contradicted by extensive detailed evidence”.

Wilson later claimed Cohen had been attempting to hire lawyers to stop the release of her memoir in its current form.

“Now the a**hole is trying to threaten me. He’s hired a crisis PR manager and lawyers. He’s trying to stop press coming out about my new book,” she wrote in an Instagram story last week. “But the book WILL come out and you will all know the truth.”

Rebel Wilson has made more jaw-dropping allegations in her new memoir. Picture: Getty Images

In her memoir, Wilson also claims that a member of the royal family invited her to a medieval themed orgy at the house of a US tech billionaire.

Wilson has not named the royal in question, but said they were far removed from the line of succession.

Wilson said she dressed in “a buxom damsel outfit complete with cone hat” and watched the British royal “flounder around” as she continuously “hiked up (her) boobs”.

She wrote: “I got thrown a last-minute invite to a tech billionaire’s party – the guy who invited me … had said to my male friend, ‘We need more girls’.”

Wilson went on: “The party was insane. Men were jousting on horses in a field, girls dressed as mermaids were in the pool … The property was massive, and because it was quite a drive, people had been assigned rooms to sleep there overnight”.

Rebel Wilson’s memoir reveals a wild night of partying with a British royal. Picture: Getty Images

The Pitch Perfect star claimed the party turned into a drug-fuelled romp after midnight.

“There’s a huge private fireworks display and then all of a sudden it’s 2am and a guy comes out with a large tray piled with what looks like a tonne of candy,” Wilson explained.

“I’m like, ‘Ooooh, is that candy?’ and the guy holding the tray says, ‘No, this is the molly [MDMA],’ and I turned to the screenwriter I’ve been talking with, confused. He says, ‘Oh, it’s for the orgy … the orgies normally start at these things about this time.’”

Wilson added: “Now the comment by the Windsor about needing more girls started to make a lot more sense. They weren’t talking about a boy-girl ratio like it was a year eight disco. They were talking about an ORGY!”

Originally published as Rebel Wilson memoir to be published in Australia with chapter redacted