Australian actress Rebel Wilson’s book, Rebel Rising, is now available in the UK, but with part of the text that was available in the US version blacked out.
The missing text is believed to be about Sacha Baron Cohen and the allegations that Rebel made about the Borat star’s behaviour on the set of a movie they made together.
A note on the book has been added explaining that the blacked-out text is “due to the peculiarities of the law in England and Wales.”
“We are publishing every page, but for legal reasons, in the UK edition, we are redacting most of one page with some other small redactions and an explanatory note,” a spokesperson for publisher HarperCollins told BBC News.
“Those sections are 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.”
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There are even more sections that have been redacted in the book, but they are much smaller, with most being just a sentence here and there.
In the versions of Rebel Rising released in Australia and New Zealand, it has been reported that the entire chapter concerning Sasha has been redacted, making it the most censored version of her memoir that has been released.
Rebel claims she had negative experience working with the Borat star on the 2016 film Grimsby, in Rebel Rising.
Following Rebel’s allegations, the British comedian and his lawyers immediately spoke out against them, claiming they have “no basis in reality” and are part of a “cynical commercial ploy to promote her book.“
Despite all the press surrounding her book — especially where Sacha is concerned — it has been widely panned in reviews.
In one two-star review, Emily Watkins of iNews described it as “so poorly written it’s distracting.”
The redacted version of Rebel Rising is available wherever books are sold.