Rebel Wilson has fired back at the producers of her directorial debut The Deb in an expletive-laden rant after they filed legal action against her.
The Pitch Perfect actress, 44, made her point of view very clear after it emerged she was being sued for defamation by the producers of her movie in a shock fallout.
Producers Amanda Ghost and Gregor Cameron, and executive producer Vince Holden launched a lawsuit after Rebel accused them of blocking her movie from premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
The trio filed an amended complaint on Tuesday (AEST), prompting Wilson to hit back in a fiery statement aimed at Len Blavatnik, the billionaire whose company AI Film financed the coming-of-age musical.
‘Len Blavatnik, please stop funding and protecting Amanda Ghost, Gregor Cameron and Vince Holden,’ Wilson wrote in an impassioned post on her Instagram Stories.
Labelling the producers as ‘f***wits’, she continued her tirade, also abusing them for being ‘vile and disgusting’.
‘Clearly these recent press articles and constant retaliations against me for speaking the truth on my small n movie are FALSE,’ Wilson continued.
‘All I did was tell the truth about these absolute f****wits – now they launch a bogus defamation suit and bogus articles to inflict further harm.’
The Bridesmaids actress is currently living it up in Paris and shared a series of snaps to her Instagram Stories on Thursday showing off the action at the 2024 Olympic Games and herself posing beside a Fiat in the French capital.
Rebel Wilson has fired back at the producers of her directorial debut The Deb in an expletive-laden rant after they filed legal action against her
Wilson first lashed the trio of producers on July 10, for allegedly blocking the movie from premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival (a scene from The Deb is pictured)
It comes after the producers of The Deb branded Wilson a ‘malicious bully’ in a defamation lawsuit launched against her as the fallout from the movie’s bungled premiere continues to deteriorate.
In their amended complaint, The Deb producers claimed Wilson defamed them in an Instagram post in which she accused the trio of embezzling money from the film’s budget and also claimed that Ghost sexually harassed one of the lead actresses.
Daily Mail has contacted AI Film for comment.
Neither Wilson nor The Deb’s producers – Ghost and Cameron and executive producer Holden – have made further comment to the press.
However, Wilson’s lawyer Bryan Freedman claimed ‘the number of people who back up Rebel’s experience is staggering’ in a statement given to Deadline on Thursday.
Rebel first lashed out at the producers on July 10 for allegedly blocking the movie from premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival.
In the four-minute video, the n star hurled accusations at the trio of producers, accusing them of ‘bad behaviour’ and ‘inappropriate conduct’.
Wilson’s directorial debut The Deb centres on two teenage girls preparing to attend a debutante ball in the n Outback (Wilson is pictured in the film)
The producers denied the accusations almost immediately, and then followed up with legal action in LA Superior Court.
Less than a week later, long after The Deb was confirmed as the closing night pick at the 2024 Toronto Film Festival, Wilson brought American entertainment litigator Freedman onboard her legal team.
Ghost, Cameron and Holden then amended their complaint earlier this week, citing Wilson’s allegations against Sacha Baron Cohen that she made in her autobiography earlier this year.
‘This is par for the course for Rebel,’ the lawsuit claimed. ‘In her autobiography, Rebel included false allegations about well-known actor Sacha Baron Cohen’s alleged inappropriate behavior.
‘Due to these false allegations, portions of her autobiography were redacted when published in the United Kingdom and .’
Wilson is currently living it up in Paris and shared a series of snaps to her Instagram showing off the action at the 2024 Olympic Games and herself posing beside a Fiat in the French capital
Before her feud with The Deb producers, Wilson sparked headlines when she accused Sacha Baron Cohen of pressuring her to do nudity on the set of The Brothers Grimsby, which he has firmly denied
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Before her feud with The Deb producers, Wilson sparked headlines earlier this year when she accused Cohen of pressuring her to do nudity on the set of 2016 film The Brothers Grimsby.
The bombshell claims were made in her memoir Rebel Rising. Cohen denied the allegations and successfully sued to have the passages about him removed from editions of the book published in Wilson’s native and in the UK, though they remain in the US and other international territories.
Wilson’s directorial debut The Deb centres on two teenage girls preparing to attend a debutante ball in the n Outback.
Carcoar, Blayney, Orange, and Sydney are just some of the NSW filming locations, with Rebel previously likening the tone of the film to cult classics Muriel’s Wedding and Priscilla, Queen Of The Desert.
‘If I was directing a movie it was only going to be in because that’s authentic to me,’ she told the Saturday Telegraph during a behind-the-scenes production tour last October.
‘I didn’t want to do the studio ones I was offered in America because I didn’t feel like I had that heart connection.’