Sacha Baron Cohen Fires Back at Rebel Wilson ‘Asshole’ Claim

Comedian Sacha Baron Cohen is responding to Rebel Wilson’s claims that he was a “massive asshole” who threatened to stop her book from being published.

“I wrote about an asshole in my book. Now, said asshole is trying to threaten me,” Wilson wrote in an Instagram story on March 15. “He’s hired a crisis PR manager and lawyers. He’s trying to stop press from coming out about my book. But the book WILL come out and you will all know the truth.”

The Pitch Perfect star, who played Cohen’s wife in 2016’s The Brothers Grimsby, name dropped him as the “asshole” she had been referring to via social media over the weekend.

Read more at The Daily Beast.