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Rebel Wilson has admitted working with Sacha Baron Cohen was the 'worst professional experience' of her career, which made her feel 'humiliated'.
The actress, 44, first opened up about her difficult experience with the British actor, 52, in her new memoir Rebel Rising, which has been released in UK with the allegations about Sascha - which he strongly denies - redacted.
Speaking about working with Sacha on the 2016 film Grimsby during An Evening With Rebel Wilson at the London Palladium on Monday evening, Rebel claimed if she was the person she is today she would have left the project.
Fearne Cotton, who hosted the evening with Rebel, touched on the claims she has made about Sacha and asked her: 'Have you healed from it and mentally recovered?'
Rebel explained: 'I mean it was over 10 years ago so I have moved on from it. But it was a bad experience and I felt humiliated and I had a bit of shame surrounding it because I should have left.'
Rebel Wilson has told how working with Sacha Baron Cohen was the 'worst professional experience' of her career
The actress, 44, first opened up about her difficult experience with the British actor, 52, in her new memoir Rebel Rising, which has been released in UK however the parts about Sascha have been redacted (pictured together in the film)
The Australian star said that if she was as strong as she is today, she would have left the project, but went on to explain why she didn't.
Rebel said: 'I would have left I was the person I am today. But he was a bigger star and we had the same agent so there was a conflict of interest.
'I felt like I had to finish the job and that was what was professional but if I was the person I am today I would have left.'
Revealing why she shared her experience in her memoir, she said: 'I wanted to write the story for if anyone is going through something like that to give them perspective on it if they are feeling shame. It released some of that shame by writing about it.'
It comes after Sacha broke his silence after Rebel's redacted memoir was released in the UK on Thursday last week.
The book was published in the US earlier this month, and features a chapter titled Sacha Baron Cohen And Other A**holes, where Rebel makes claims about Sacha's behaviour during the filming of Grimsby, which he has strongly denied.
However the UK copies feature the wording crudely blacked out due to what Rebel brands 'peculiarities' of English law.
In response to the book's UK release, Sacha's legal team has deemed this decision by publishers HarperCollins a vindication, following the creator's strong denial of Rebel's claims.
Speaking about working on 2016 film Grimsby with Sacha An Evening With Rebel Wilson at the London Palladium on Monday evening, Rebel said she felt 'humiliated' during filming (pictured arriving at the event)
It comes after Sacha broke his silence after Rebel's redacted memoir was released in the UK on Thursday
'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,' the statement, presented in Deadline, said.
'Printing falsehoods is against the law in the UK and Australia; this is not a ''peculiarity'' as Ms Wilson said, but a legal principle that has existed for many hundreds of years.
'This is a clear victory for Sacha Baron Cohen and confirms what we said from the beginning – that this is demonstrably false.'
After redeacted edition was finally published, publisher HarperCollins confirmed to MailOnline that details had been removed.
They told MailOnline: 'The book contains some redactions in chapter 23 on pages 216, 217, 218 and 221, as well as an explanatory note at the beginning of the chapter.'
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