Nathanael Cooper
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And so we heard from Hannah Riley, who spoke about the atmosphere on set, which didn't sound particularly good.
Charlotte broke down in tears at least once, to my memory, when she was talking about how difficult it was to be a round rebel character.
Suka Santhu, the barrister representing Charlotte, painted Rebel as a bully who paints herself as a champion of women, but instead she has bullied and harassed Charlotte McInnes.
She said that she's bullied and harassed Amanda Ghost, the producer at the centre of the Bath incident, and that she's bullied and harassed Hannah Riley.
So Rebel, in the first week, was in court the first day of the hearing, but didn't come back into the court again until she had to give evidence.
She said that she is a truth teller and she's known as a truth teller.
And Rebel Wilson is saying that Charlotte did make the complaint that she was doing what any person in her position would do when a young actress said she was made to feel uncomfortable by a senior person on the film, the producer, the creative producer, but also attached to the finance of the film.
So Rebel said in court that this was a nightmare situation for her to be in, to hear this complaint, and then she had to do something about it.
While Charlotte's team tried to paint her as a liar, particularly in the closing arguments on Friday last week, you know, Sukrasanthu did take the court through all the times that Rebel's evidence didn't necessarily match up, times she's contradicted herself or times she introduced new things that she'd never said before.
Despite having put multiple posts on Instagram, despite being involved in multiple different cases around the world related to this film, there was new stuff introduced during her evidence that we'd never heard before.
So there's four court cases related to this.
There's the producers suing Rebel for defamation over the post.
There's Amanda Ghost suing Rebel over the websites.
Charlotte suing Rebel over the posts and the websites playing into aggravated damage.
And then there's also a more corporate side breach of contract matter happening in the Supreme Court in Sydney in September.
So one of the really interesting things that came out just before the trial began in the US case were these websites called AmandaGhostSucks.com and AmandaGhost.com, where the websites basically painted Amanda Ghost as the Indian Ghislaine Maxwell.
They were really awful websites.
But also within them was this remark about Charlotte, without naming her, that said that she had changed her story and been given a recording deal and a role in another musical called Gatsby that the producers lost $25 million on.
So they were using that as hush money to keep her quiet.
So that website, even though it doesn't explicitly name Charlotte and it came about after the Instagram posts,