Woman’s Day: “We just can’t risk being sued”
Magazine originally decided against running an article on Rebel Wilson after legal advice the claims were "too problematic."
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Actress Rebel Wilson broke down yesterday as she gave evidence for a second day about an “orchestrated campaign” which she claims damaged her reputation and cost her movie roles.
“When I think about every single day since I was an adult working for something, and then this group of people who don’t know me want to rip me to shreds on information they know is false,” she told the jury.
“To write these kinds of lies about somebody to ruin their reputation when they’ve worked so hard.”
Emails between Bauer and a source claiming to know Wilson from her school days dated back to 2012, three years before an article claiming she had embellished her backstory and lied about her age and real name.
That was despite earlier legal advice suggesting it was “too problematic” and should not run.
“If she hasn’t been lying as such it’ll be hard to do the story,” Woman’s Day journalist Shari Nementzik wrote to the source.
“We just can’t risk being sued.”
“They did risk it two years later and here I am now,” Wilson told the jury.
Source: ABC
2 Responses
Its a classical mistake by the commercial media. They rush a story out without checking the facts first. Bauer Media will most likely think about it next time. This could also be a big publicity stunt on both parties. The only real winners in this are the lawyers as usual. Both parties will move on but one thing is for sure Rebel will not be sitting through any interviews with Woman’s Day or any other Bauer Media titles. IMO i think both sides are at fault. Its well known that most if not all Hollywood stars “exaggerate” their backstory to gain roles and thus be more successful. They should have settled out of court. if those stories did hurt Rebel’s career which is possible they did, then its highly ironic considering of what i mentioned above. Rebel should have known something like this could happen.
For goodness sake…just awful…