Rebel Wilson Calls Out Newspaper’s ‘Grubby Behavior’ After It Tried To Out Her

Rebel Wilson says she skilled “a lot of distress” after an Australian publication tried to reveal her same-sex relationship to the world with out her consent.

On Saturday, the “Pitch Perfect” and “Jojo Rabbit” actor responded after the Australian Press Council formally condemned The Sydney Morning Herald for having intruded on her “reasonable expectations of privacy” with its actions earlier this yr.

“Just seeing the news that the Australian Press Council has condemned the Sydney Morning Herald and their journalists for their recent grubby behavior in trying to out my same-sex relationship,” she wrote on Instagram. “And while I didn’t personally ask for any action to be taken I am glad that this has been officially recorded and recognized.”

After Wilson mentioned that she and girlfriend Ramona Agruma are nonetheless experiencing “pains from having to rush this news publicly,” she added, “We move on, focusing on all the absolutely amazing new things in our life though! Sending love to everyone.”

In June, Wilson confirmed that she and Agruma, a designer, have been in a relationship.

“I thought I was searching for a Disney Prince,” she wrote on Instagram on the time. “But maybe what I really needed all this time was a Disney Princess.”

Simply days after that announcement, journalist Andrew Hornery printed a since-deleted opinion piece in The Sydney Morning Herald wherein he defined he’d given Wilson a two-day deadline to deal with her relationship publicly earlier than his publication would report on it.

Understandably, Hornery’s revelation drew swift backlash from LGBTQ rights advocates, although Sydney Morning Herald editor Bevan Shields later claimed that his employees “would have asked the same questions had Wilson’s new partner been a man.”

On Saturday, the Australian Press Council issued an adjudication reprimanding The Sydney Morning Herald for having “intruded on [Wilson’s] reasonable expectations of privacy” with its actions.

“The Council does not consider there was sufficient public interest to justify such an intrusion,” they wrote, including that Hornery’s inquiry was “likely to cause substantial offence and distress.”

Shortly after Hornery deleted his unique opinion piece, he changed it with a brand new one wherein he acknowledged he’d “made mistakes” in his dealing with of the story and pledged to “learn from them.”

“It is not the Herald’s business to ‘out’ people and that is not what we set out to do,” wrote Hornery, who’s homosexual. “But I understand why my email has been seen as a threat. The framing of it was a mistake.”

After praising Wilson’s “extraordinary grace” amid the controversy, the journalist vowed that he and his publication would “approach things differently from now on to make sure we always take into consideration the extra layer of complexities people face when it comes to their sexuality.”