{"id":554561,"date":"2026-04-28T06:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554561\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T06:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T06:01:08","slug":"rebel-wilson-tells-defamation-trial-she-was-not-behind-websites-that-attacked-producer-rebel-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/554561\/","title":{"rendered":"Rebel Wilson tells defamation trial she was not behind websites that attacked producer | Rebel Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hollywood star Rebel Wilson<\/a> has denied lying as she maintains she had no involvement in websites that attacked a producer with whom she is feuding.<\/p>\n

The Pitch Perfect star is being sued by Charlotte MacInnes, the Australian lead actor of the musical comedy The Deb.<\/p>\n

MacInnes claims she was defamed by social media posts from Wilson that suggest she is a liar who retracted a sexual harassment complaint to advance her career.<\/p>\n

Wilson claims the young actor confided that she felt uncomfortable after sharing a bath in swimwear with The Deb co-producer Amanda Ghost following a medical episode in September 2023.<\/p>\n

MacInnes denies making the complaint and says her reputation has been damaged by suggestions she retracted it for a lead role and a record deal.<\/p>\n

The court heard the claims were referenced in smear websites created by a crisis PR team that described Ms Ghost as an \u201cIndian Ghislaine Maxwell\u201d and a sex trafficker.<\/p>\n

Giving evidence in the Federal Court on Tuesday, Wilson denied authoring or ordering the creation of the malicious websites.<\/p>\n

She said her US lawyer hired The Agency Group to assist her with a legal dispute with her co-producers, repeatedly insisting the firm had not been commissioned to work for her.<\/p>\n

The firm is also accused of creating smear websites against Hollywood actor Blake Lively on behalf of her co-star Justin Baldoni.<\/p>\n

Wilson rejected suggestions from MacInnes\u2019 barrister Sue Chrysanthou SC that she was lying and pretending to misunderstand questions.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou know you\u2019ve lied about this topic for a year haven\u2019t you?\u201d Chrysanthou asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Wilson responded.<\/p>\n

The Bridesmaids star said anyone could have created the word document from which the content of the smear websites appeared to have been sourced.<\/p>\n

The metadata records the author as Wilson\u2019s company, but the actor denied any knowledge of the document and suggested anyone could have used the name.<\/p>\n

Wilson said she didn\u2019t think she would have been horrified by the allegations against Ghost on the websites because the producer had been bullying and harassing her at the time.<\/p>\n

She was questioned about a previous statement that she regarded herself as a champion of women and considered her commitment to The Deb was proof of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cDo you still say you regard yourself as a champion of women?\u201d Chrysanthou asked.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes,\u201d Wilson replied.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you look over my 25-year career, you can see many evidences (sic) of me supporting women\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Deb director denied mistreating MacInnes and Ghost while working with them on the film, labelling accusations of private and public bullying as \u201cabsolute nonsense\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cInappropriate behaviour from a person in power to an employee is a serious problem,\u201d Wilson said.<\/p>\n

She had smiled as she entered the courthouse but appeared more guarded when she got into the witness box.<\/p>\n

Wilson falsely portrayed herself as a whistleblower who spoke up to protect MacInnes when she was actually using the alleged complaint as leverage in a dispute with her co-producers, Chrysanthou claimed.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is how this bully, apparently this saviour of women, the protector of the harassed, responds,\u201d she previously told the court.<\/p>\n

But Wilson raised her concerns with others even though she had doubts about the veracity of the alleged complaint, her lawyer Dauid Sibtain SC said.<\/p>\n

The central issue is not whether MacInnes was a victim but instead whether she complained to Wilson and then altered her story, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe changed her story,\u201d Sibtain said in his opening address.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe did so to ensure her career as an actress and musician progressed by appeasing Ghost.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sibtain argued MacInnes\u2019 reputation hasn\u2019t suffered any harm at all as a result of the social media posts.<\/p>\n

The trial continues.<\/p>\n

Amanda Ghost arrives at the federal court in Sydney on Tuesday morning. Photograph: Bianca de Marchi\/AAP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood star Rebel Wilson has denied lying as she maintains she had no involvement in websites that attacked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-554561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}