Rebel Wilson has recalled the moment she was forced to tell her mother about her sexuality after being ‘threatened’ by a journalist.
Back in June 2022, actress Rebel - born Melanie Elizabeth Bownds - took to social media to announce she’d found a ‘Disney princess’ in Ramona Agruma.
Months after her coming out statement, the 44-year-old disclosed that she and the businesswoman had taken the next step and were engaged to be married.
However, the Pitch Perfect actress soon revealed that coming out just six months into their relationship wasn’t exactly on her terms.
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In a new interview with Loose Women’s Judi Love, Rebel explained how she felt ‘forced’ to make her sexuality public.
On Thursday’s (May 9) episode of the ITV panel show, the star began by saying: “I announced I was in a relationship with a woman on social media.
“But, there's a bit of a story though because an Australian journalist was threatening to essentially out me… So, I was forced to kind of make it public.
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“Not that it was something I was hiding, it was just something that I was slowly telling people because it's a bit of a shock when you've only been dating men to all of a sudden say, 'I'm in a relationship with a woman'.”
After explaining the make-or-break situation, Rebel told 43-year-old Judi how she successfully broached the subject with her Aussie mother, Sue Bownds.
"I remember being very nervous to tell my mom and then I had to tell her because she was flying over to LA and she was gonna meet Ramona," she explained.
“I had to tell her. And I'm like, ‘Mom, you know, Ramona, who you heard on the phone?’ I go, ‘She's not just my friend. She's my girlfriend.
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“She was like, ‘Oh, that's great darling! Now what colour should I paint this side of the fence? Olive Green? Brown?’”
Rebel’s latest interview follows the release of her bombshell autobiography, Rebel Rising.
The UK edition was initially set to be stacked on bookshelves from April 4. However, it was pushed back to April 25 following Rebel’s allegations against Borat actor Sacha Baron Cohen.
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The British edition of the book has redacted lines of text believed to be relating to the 52-year-old.
“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 HarperCollins told the Guardian.
“Those sections are a very small part of a much bigger story.”
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When asked about the redacted memoir, a spokesperson for Sacha told BBC News: “Harper Collins did not fact check this chapter in the book prior to publication, and took the sensible but terribly belated step of deleting Rebel Wilson’s defamatory claims once presented with evidence that they were false.
"Printing falsehoods is against the law in the UK and Australia; this is not a 'peculiarity' as Ms. Wilson said, but a legal principle that has existed for many hundreds of years."
They added that it was a ‘clear victory’ for their client and that claims Rebel made in the chapter, entitled Sacha Baron Cohen and Other Assholes, were false.
Topics: Rebel Wilson, Loose Women, ITV, Sex and Relationships, Celebrity, Books
Ella Scott