{"id":635180,"date":"2026-04-28T01:08:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635180\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T01:08:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T01:08:10","slug":"rebel-wilson-tight-lipped-arriving-at-sydney-court-ahead-of-giving-evidence-in-defamation-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/635180\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel Wilson tight-lipped arriving at Sydney court ahead of giving evidence in defamation trial"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hollywood actor Rebel Wilson has arrived at court, where she is expected to give evidence in a defamation trial against her.<\/p>\n

Ms Wilson is being sued for defamation in the Federal Court by Charlotte MacInnes, who plays the lead actor in Wilson’s debut directorial film The Deb.<\/p>\n

Surrounded by her lawyers and a waiting media scrum, Ms Wilson only offered a “good morning” to reporters quizzing her on how the proceedings were going so far.<\/p>\n

Ms MacInnes lodged the case after denying she walked back sexual harassment claims to score acting opportunities.<\/p>\n

She argues Ms Wilson made incorrect public statements that the young actor was sexually harassed by The Deb movie producer, Amanda Ghost, after a 2023 incident in the producer’s Bondi apartment.<\/p>\n

\"Charlotte<\/p>\n

Charlotte MacInnes lodged the case after denying she walked back sexual harassment claims to score acting opportunities. (ABC News: Abubakr Sajid)<\/p>\n

Ms MacInnes also says Ms Wilson made defamatory public posts accusing her of going back on her story to get further acting jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The court has previously heard that the 2023 incident involved Ms Ghost and Ms MacInnes going for an evening swim in Bondi, where the producer then had a reaction to the cold water and broke out in welts that required her to warm up.<\/p>\n

Sue Chrysanthou SC, acting for Ms MacInnes, earlier told the court the pair returned to the apartment to help Ms Ghost warm up with a bath together, and that both kept their swimmers on.<\/p>\n

\"Amanda<\/p>\n

Amanda Ghost flew from the UK to Sydney to give evidence in the defamation trial between Ms Wilson and Ms MacInnes. (ABC News: Abubakr Sajid)<\/p>\n

The court has previously heard that in July 2024, Ms Wilson posted a video to her Instagram page accusing Ms Ghost of misconduct towards “the lead actress of the film [The Deb]”.<\/p>\n

In August 2024, Ms Wilson allegedly requested her PR firm in the US to create a website about Ms Ghost, which accused the producer of being a “madam” who was “procuring young women for the pleasure of the extremely wealthy”.<\/p>\n

So far, the court has heard evidence from Ms MacInnes and Ms Ghost, with Ms Wilson scheduled to take the stand today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood actor Rebel Wilson has arrived at court, where she is expected to give evidence in a defamation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[300084,64,63,300083,307589,134,307588,32567,301226,307585,307584,307586,302773,307587,302772],"class_list":["post-635180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-amanda-ghost","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-charlotte-macinnes","tag-charlotte-macinnes-bathtub-incident","tag-entertainment","tag-movie-producer","tag-rebel-wilson","tag-rebel-wilson-court-case","tag-rebel-wilson-defamation-case","tag-rebel-wilson-gives-evidence","tag-rebel-wilson-v-charlotte-macinnes","tag-the-deb-controversy","tag-the-deb-court-case","tag-the-deb-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}