Insiders tell Page Six that “reckless” Rebel Wilson — who’s taking on Hollywood on several fronts — is her own worst enemy.
The “Bridesmaids” star is embroiled in four lawsuits over her upcoming movie the “The Deb,” and press reports just revealed that a shady PR team working on her behalf appear to have launched a clandestine campaign to smear one of her adversaries.
But the actress went on a paranoid tear on social media blasting billionaire Sir Len Blavatnik among others, calling him “USSR born oligarch” and noting that he appears in the Epstein files.
Rebel Wilson refuses to be silent bout her ongoing legal battles with producers of her film “The Deb.” Dave Benett/Getty Images for Warner Music
Wilson seems to be arguing her case with social media posts. Instagram/@rebelwilson
Wilson has been locked in the suits since 2024, when she accused the film’s producers — including songwriter Amanda Ghost of “inappropriate behavior towards the lead,” played by Charlotte MacInnes, in a video she posted on social media. She also accused them of “embezzling funds from the film’s budget,” taking “retaliatory behavior” after she reported them, and of attempting to prevent the movie from premiering at the Toronto Film Festival.
The producers filed a defamation suit against her in LA, then Wilson filed a countersuit, expanding on her sexual harassment and embezzlement claims. MacInnes publicly denied Wilson’s allegations that she was sexually harassed by Ghost and filed her own defamation suit against Wilson in Australia. And finally, AI Film, which produced the movie, filed a commercial case in Australia against Wilson’s Camp Sugar production company.
Then last week the Hollywood Reporter published leaked audio of Wilson’s crisis PR team, which also reps Justin Baldoni, apparently planning fake websites to depict Ghost as a sex-trafficking madame.
In 2024, Wilson accused producer Amanda Ghosts of inappropriate behavior on the set of “The Deb.” FilmMagic
Star of “The Deb,” Charlotte MacInnes is suing Wilson for defamation. Billboard via Getty Images
One member of the team can be heard saying, “We can’t just do, like, oh, she’s a bitch, she sucks. It’s, like, it’s got to be really, really heavy and connected to something that heavy.”
(Wilson has denied having any knowledge of the websites).
But on Tuesday Wilson somehow went on the offensive on — where else — social media.
Wilson made her directorial debut with “The Deb.” Courtesy Everett Collection
Wilson and MacInnes, in happier times, celebrating the film’s launch at Cannes in 2023. Dave Benett/Getty Images for Warner Music
“I was going to wait to take the stand, but the absolute bombardment on me as a person, via heavily paid crisis PR firms recently has taken its toll and it’s impossible to say nothing,” she wrote on Instagram Stories.
She called Sir Len “the USSR born oligarch,” claiming that he “funded” both “The Deb” and “now 4 lawsuits across two continents against me.” She then provided “examples of me begging this billionaire for help” with the alleged problems on set, and mentioned for good measure that Blavatnik is mentioned in the Epstein files. She also double downed on her accusations and attacked MacInnes.
“She’s only making things worse, and not thinking things through,” a source told Page Six of her most recent rant about her cases.
Wilson’s film closed out the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival. Getty Images
“It’s astonishing. She’s frustrated with how things are going and is being reckless and irrational,” the source said while speculating that she acted without consulting a lawyer.
“Everyone, who knows me, knows I a[sic] true Rebel. I say it how it is,” Wilson wrote. “There was dodgy behaviour on my movie set by UK producers and I reported it,” she maintained in the recent posts.
“I thought reporting it would lead to action and hopefully, a better industry overall. I thought calling out the bad behaviour would make it stop,” she wrote.
Wilson says she’s not scared and she won’t be silenced. Instagram
Wilson then implored Blavatnik to stop funding “people who behaved inappropriately.”
“Maybe stop these ridiculous lawsuits and crisis PR attacks that is costing millions,” she said. She concluded her IG story share, posting a photo of herself wearing a hat that read: Pretty Strong.
“I am PRETTY STRONG, and when push comes to shove, I’m going to get on the stand and tell it like it is,” she wrote.
Wilson concluded by telling her followers to “watch now for the ‘fun’ crisis PR articles that are coming down the track to try and discredit me… I’m not scared and I won’t be silenced.”
Reps for all parties did not comment.