Rebel Wilson makes a name for herself.
A week after teasing the “giant hole” she describes in her upcoming memoir, Level Rising, the actress revealed that the celebrity in question is Sacha Baron Cohen.
“I wrote about a hole in my book. Now I say an a-hole is trying to blackmail me,” the “Pitch Perfect” star claimed in a now-deleted Instagram Story over the weekend. did.
“He hired a crisis communications manager and a lawyer,” she went on to claim. “He is trying to stop the press from reporting on my book. But the book will be published and you will know the truth.”
Wilson, 44, then named her co-star “Grimsby” to “avoid being bullied and silenced by highly paid lawyers and PR crisis managers.”
she wrote: “The hole I’m talking about in a chapter of my book is Sacha Baron Cohen.”
Representatives for Wilson and Cohen have not yet commented on her social media statements.
Wilson kept the mystery A-lister’s name a secret in her first March 15 Instagram video about her book.
“When I first came to Hollywood, people said, ‘I have a zero-hole policy. [It] This means, “Oh, I don’t work without holes.” I was like, “Oh, yeah.” I mean, it sounds smart, it sounds logical,” she said at the time.
“But then [what they meant] I worked in a huge hole and it really sunk in,” Wilson continued. “And yes, we definitely have a no-hole policy now.”
She and Cohen, 52, collaborated on “Grimsby,” in which the two characters were boyfriend and girlfriend.
Wilson spoke about the project on the Kyle and Jackie O radio show in 2014 and criticized Cohen, calling him “outrageous.”
“Every day he says, ‘Rebel, can I be naked in this scene?’ And I was like, ‘No!'” she claimed at the time. “Sasha and I have the same agent in America, and I thought, ‘Sasha, let’s call our agent Sharon and tell her how much you’re harassing me.’ I did.”
She added: We collaborated on a scene from “Borat”Cohen allegedly asked her to “stick around.” [her] raise your finger [his] Even though that “really interesting part” was not in the script.
Wilson announced that he is publishing a memoir in 2023, which is scheduled to be released on April 2nd.
