Rebel Wilson appeared confused on the witness stand on Tuesday morning.
Charlotte MacInnes’ lawyer Sue Chrysanthou SC immediately hit her with a barrage of questions over her treatment of women during the making of The Deb.
The Pitch Perfect actor told the court she was a ‘champion of women’ who had never launched criticism against her female colleagues.
Ms Chrysanthou pointed out that Wilson had launched significant criticism at MacInnes and The Deb’s producer Amanda Ghost.
Wilson agreed she had criticised those women on social media, but she said those claims were ‘true’.
Asked whether she recalled making negative statements about MacInnes and Ghost to others, Wilson said she couldn’t remember.
She also couldn’t remember giving statements about the defamation proceedings to the press, nor could she remember texting someone about The Deb’s original writer, Hannah Reilly, saying ‘she can go f*** herself’.
Wilson then told the court she could not recall whether she had previously been sued for defamation for identifying the wrong journalist in a social media post, she said ‘I can’t recall’.
Ms Chrysanthou asked: ‘Ms Wilson, you look confused, are you confused?
Wilson replied: ‘Yes, I’m not sure what you’re referring to.’
Ms Chrysanthou said: ‘Really? Wasn’t there a scandal on social media where you identified the wrong journalist?’
Ms Wilson said: ‘There’s stuff written about me on a daily basis in the press so I can’t recall.’
‘Ms Wilson, do you have a good memory?’ Ms Chrysanthou asked.
‘I would say I have a normal memory,’ Wilson replied.
Ms Chrysanthou said: ‘Then why don’t you remember being sued for defamation?’
Wilson said: ‘There’s stuff written about me on a daily basis in the press so I can’t recall.’
Wilson settled a defamation case for $120,000 for launching a social media tirade against freelance Australian journalist Elizabeth Wilsn in 2016.
‘If your name is Elizabeth Wilson and you work for ACP Magazines, just know that you are a disgrace for harassing my sweet, sick grandma,’ Wilson wrote on Twitter.
She then posted a photo of another Elizabeth Wilson who worked at the same company.
