Source : PERTHNOW NEWS
Hollywood actor Rebel Wilson “tells lies and makes up stories about people”, a court has heard.
Barrister Sue Chrysanthou, SC, told the NSW Supreme Court that it was her client AI Film Production’s case that Ms Wilson, who is being sued over the release of her directorial debut The Deb, lied.
“It’s my client’s case … that Ms Wilson tells lies and that she makes up stories about people and that she puts them (those lies) in documents,” Ms Chrysanthou told the court.
The submission came during legal argument over the admissibility of emails and documents as it was revealed that Ms Wilson would not take the stand in the hearing before Justice Elisabeth Peden.
AI Film is suing Ms Wilson claiming she breached contracts and sabotaged and undermined the release of the musical comedy The Deb, in which she also starred, by publishing false and derogatory statements causing the company financial and reputational damage.
Those statements include allegations that producers Amanda Ghost, her husband Gregor Cameron and Vince Holden were trying to block the release of the movie and had embezzled funds. Ms Wilson also alleged in an Instagram post to her 11 million followers that Ms Ghost had engaged in inappropriate conduct with The Deb’s lead actor Charlotte MacInnes, the court was told,
AI Film also alleges Ms Wilson was responsible for smear websites targeting Ms Ghost, including amandaghostsucks.com created through US crisis PR film The Agency Group.
Ms Wilson denies the allegations and is countersuing, claiming she and the company she co-owns with her mother Sue Bownds, Camp Sugar, is owed about $600,000 in fees. She also alleges that the three producers engaged in a pattern of theft, bullying and misconduct during the film’s production.
Ms Wilson has been a fixture in the back of the courtroom since the case began on September 21 but was noticeably absent on Monday as Ms Chrysanthou closed the plaintiff’s case against the actor.
In July 2024, Ms Wilson posted to Instagram alleging the producers were preventing The Deb premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival because she had uncovered “bad behaviour … inappropriate behaviour towards the lead actor in the film”.
That “inappropriate behaviour” related to an incident in which Ms Ghost and Ms MacInnes were in a bath together. There has been much evidence about the nature of the bath and dispute over whether it was inappropriate or not.
This legal stoush is one of several in Australia and the US surrounding the production and release of The Deb, which had its Australian premiere in April this year.
