Rebel Wilson hits back and warns 'the truth WILL come out' after she accused ... trends now
Rebel Wilson says she has been contacted by several other women since claiming to have been sexually harassed by Ali G performer Sacha Baron Cohen, claiming 'the truth will come out'.
Pitch Perfect star Rebel, 44, claimed in autobiography Rebel Rising that the Borat actor asked her to strip off for scenes despite her contracts bearing 'no nudity' clauses and made sexually explicit requests.
Representatives for Baron Cohen say he denies any allegations of mistreatment or harassment towards Rebel on the set of 2016 action comedy flick Grimsby, released in North America as The Brothers Grimsby.
Rebel says other women have 'been in contact' with her since she made the claims in her new autobiography, Rebel Rising. There is no suggestion at this time that the women are making claims against the Borat actor.
Baron Cohen, 52, has just announced he and wife Isla Fisher, 48, are breaking up. Sources have suggested that the A-list marriage had been troubled for some time, and that Rebel's allegations were a 'catalyst' for the break-up.
Rebel Wilson (pictured here at the BFI London Film Festival) claims other women have contacted her after she accused Sacha Baron Cohen of sexual harassment
Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen and actress wife Isla Fisher (pictured) announced their split this week - though the break-up is said to have happened last year
Rebel claimed Baron Cohen pressured her to strip off for scenes and asked her to perform a sex act on him while filming box office bomb Grimsby (pictured)
Rebel posed up a storm in a satin green dress while lying on the sofa, with the caption: 'What a week!' as she referred to the attention her book has gained
In a new interview Rebel said the women who had contacted her were still considering whether to go public with their own allegations - the exact details of which, and to whom they refer, are unclear.
She continued: 'It is hard to say something against somebody who's high profile, because they hit you with high-price lawyers and crisis PR people and all sorts of little tricks.
'It doesn't feel great when all I'm doing is sharing my story in my memoir, which I'm very entitled to do.
'But I always think that the truth will come out which is why it's great to have the book out now so people don't just read the headlines, but can read the actual chapter.'
The remarks, first reported by The Sun, come after days of frenetic speculation over Baron Cohen's marriage after Rebel's book was released.
She had played Baron Cohen's on-screen girlfriend in Grimsby, a box office flop that was derided by critics.
The film saw Baron Cohen's football fan character Nobby get drawn into the world of espionage; it also starred Isla, Mark Strong, Penelope Cruz, Ricky Tomlinson and Johnny Vegas.
Rebel claimed in the memoir that during filming he would ask her to strip off for scenes, in violation of her 'no nudity' clause, and requested that she perform a sex act involving his bottom on camera because it would be 'funny'.
She wrote that his actions made her feel 'completely disrespected, which led to me treating myself with even more disrespect by eating in an extremely unhealthy way'.
Bridesmaid actress Rebel said she eventually compromised and agreed to 'slap him on the a**' in an improvised scene, and agreed to it after several rewrites.
But behind-the-scenes footage released after the claims were made appeared to suggest she was on board with the scene - a suggestion she has vehemently denied.
'It is an a****** move to release footage of one part of that disgusting episode while leaving out everything that preceded it,' she said in a statement, adding that her 'horrified refusal' to carry out the act was not included in the released footage.
She added: 'What this edited video shows is what I had to do in order to get out of the
