Rebel Wilson memoir: entire chapter on Sacha Baron Cohen redacted from book in Australia

Rebel Wilson, pictured at the Aactas in Australia in February. The Australian edition of the actor’s memoir Rebel Rising will be released on 8 May. Photograph: Brendon Thorne/Getty Images for AFI

Rebel Wilson’s memoir will finally be published in Australia but with an entire chapter on her account of working with Sacha Baron Cohen redacted – weeks after it was published in its entirety in the US.

HarperCollins Australia confirmed to the Guardian that “for legal reasons we have redacted one chapter in the Australian/New Zealand edition and included an explanatory note accordingly. That chapter is a very small part of a much bigger story and we’re excited for readers to know Rebel’s story when the book is released, on Wednesday 8 May.”