Why Rebel Wilson is being sued for defamation
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Good morning and welcome to The Daily Oz. It's Friday the 1st of May. I'm Elliot Laurie.
I'm Emma Gillespie.
Rebel Wilson is back in court this week, this time as the defendant in one of the most high-profile defamation cases in recent history. It all centres on the production of an Aussie film called The Deb, which marks Wilson's debut as a director. If you've been following along and finding the case a little bit confusing, don't worry. On today's podcast, we're going to go through everything you need to know, how we got here, what's happened at trial so far, and what comes next. But first, here's a message from TDA's news editor, Adela.
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Elliot, I'm so glad we're talking about this today. First of all, because I'm personally deeply interested and it's great to chat to you about these kinds of stories.
What is the defamation case involving Rebel Wilson about?
But secondly, because you mentioned in your intro that this has been a really confusing case. There are so many elements to it. And I know you did a really great job of stepping this out in your written piece last week, but there have been even more developments since then. For those who haven't been following this as closely as you, I think maybe a good place to start is Rebel Wilson, a very familiar name to our audience.
Yeah, I think a good place to start with these types of cases is just who's involved. The big name on it is Rebel Wilson. She's, you know, one of our biggest entertainment exports of the past couple of years. She's best known for playing the character Fat Amy in the Pitch Perfect trilogy, but she also made appearances in, you know, Bridesmaids and Jojo Rabbit. With this case in particular, she is entwined in it because she directed this film, The Deb. That one is currently in cinemas now, and we'll talk a little bit more about the actual production of it later. But she's also known as being quite a litigious person. Her name has been tied up in legal cases a lot over the years. She herself actually sued a media company here in Australia for defamation.
So she's been on the other side of defamation proceedings.
And she has a law degree, right? Yeah. That comes up a lot.
She's a trained lawyer.
Okay, great. So she is a trained lawyer, a very famous Aussie comedian, and she is the one being sued?
Yeah, that's correct. And she's being sued by someone named Charlotte McInnes. She's also an Australian actress and she's a singer as well. And she actually plays the lead in the film that Wilson directed.
Okay.
So what you need to know about her is she's roughly 27 years old. She's from Western Australia. And she brought this case because she's arguing that Wilson publicly identified her as a victim of sexual harassment without her consenting to that. And she's also said that the claims that Wilson made are completely false. It's a bit of a confusing one because she's saying, I've been defamed by being described as a victim of sexual harassment. It can often normally be that people get sued because they are described as sexual harassers. But this one is where I think people get tripped up a little bit. She's rather saying that claim that Wilson made has overshadowed her career. And what was meant to be, you know, a big launch into the spotlight with his starring role in The Deb was clouded by what happened with Wilson.
So McInnes is saying that Wilson called her a victim of sexual harassment, A, without her consent, and B, that that is a lie, that the sexual harassment claim in itself is not true, according to McInnes.
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