Rebel Wilson reveals 'situationship'  with female tennis player which caused her to consider quitting fame - and says the romance made her understand love for the first time

Rebel Wilson has revealed she had a 'situationship' with a female tennis player which led to her contemplating quitting fame.

The Australian actress, 44, whose upcoming memoir Rebel Rising has seen her claim Sacha Baron Cohen was an 'a**hole' to her, says her romance with the unnamed sportsperson allowed her to understand what love was for the first time.

Before Wilson struck up a romance with now-fiancee Ramona Agruma, she had only publicly dated men, with the star writing in a memoir excerpt per People that she never felt fully invested in those relationships.

She wrote: 'Sometimes, when I was dating men, people would even comment. They're like, "God, Rebel, you can take them or leave them. You weren't that ever invested."'

'And then, here was somebody where [I] felt so invested in and even thought at one point, "Oh, I could give up my career for this person, travel around the world on the tennis circuit".' 

Rebel Wilson has revealed she had a 'situationship' with a female tennis player which led to her contemplating quitting fame

Before Wilson struck up a romance with now-fiancee Ramona Agruma (pictured last month), she had only publicly dated men, with the star writing in a memoir excerpt per People that she never felt fully invested in those relationships

'I describe it as cracking open my heart. Like you could open a fresh can of tennis balls…that's what it did to me. And, I guess, when I saw people write love songs or poetry about love, I was like, "Oh, that's nice". But I don't think I'd ever understood that until I felt that for a person.”

'It could have been that just the guys I was dating just weren't the one. Or that, also, I wasn't open to intimacy that much back then, so I never allowed myself to feel real feelings. And then the first time was with the tennis player.'

Rebel is known for her passion for tennis and has frequently attended matches all over the world and posed up with the world's greatest players. 

Rebel and Ramona originally met in 2021.

The pair eventually began dating, and they made their red carpet debut in March of last year and they announced their engagement in February last year.

The Bridesmaids star announced the birth of Royce in November 2022, mentioning in her post how starting her own family had been years in the making.

'Beyond proud to announce the birth of my first child, Royce Lillian, born this past week via surrogate,' she wrote.

This comes after Wilson has claimed Sacha Baron Cohen asked her 'stick her finger up his butt' and strip nude during filming for his movie, The Brothers Grimsby. 

The Australian actress, 44, whose upcoming memoir Rebel Rising has seen her claim Sacha Baron Cohen was an 'a**hole' to her , says her romance with the unnamed sportsperson allowed her to understand what love was for the first time

The star is known for her love of tennis - previously holding aspirations to be a professional player 

 The Australian actress, 44, has been making explosive claims about her experience with the British star, 52, in her new memoir, Rebel Rising, branding him an 'a**hole'.

Rebel has now claimed she had an uncomfortable experience while filming the 2016 comedy – claims which Sacha has said are false and contradicted by evidence - and shared details in a new excerpt from her autobiography. 

She played the role of his character Nobby's girlfriend Dawn. 

In the passage obtained by People Magazine, Rebel has alleged that Sacha would repeatedly ask her to strip off for scenes despite her 'no nudity' rule.

The most shocking allegation is that he requested she 'stick her finger up his butt' because he thought it would make a funny scene in the film. 

Rebel writes: 'It felt like every time I'd speak to SBC, he'd mention that he wanted me to go naked in a future scene. I was like, "Ha, I don't do nudity, Sacha."'

Rebel claimed that she was allegedly summoned by a product assistant for an additional scene while shooting in Cape Town, South Africa. 

Rebel says: "OK, well, we're gonna film this extra scene," SBC says. Then he pulls his pants down', SBC says very matter-of-factly: "OK, now I want you to stick your finger up my a**." And I'm like, 'What?? … No!!'

Rebel Wilson has made explosive claims about her experience with Sacha Baron Cohen who she has branded an 'a**hole' in her new memoir, Rebel Rising

The Australian actress worked with the British star, 52, on The Brothers Grimsby (2016), where she played the role of his character Nobby's girlfriend Dawn

Rebel claimed she was shocked and wanted to get out of it, adding: 'I was now scared. I wanted to get out of there, so I finally compromised: I slapped him on the ass and improvised a few lines as the character.'

The Bridesmaids actress also claimed she only agreed to a sex scene with Sacha after several rewrites and recalled allegedly telling the producers that she wouldn't be promoting the film ahead of its release.

Sacha has strongly denied ever mistreating Rebel or pressuring her to be naked in the film.

A spokesperson for Sacha, said: 'While we appreciate the importance of speaking out, these demonstrably false claims are directly contradicted by extensive detailed evidence, including contemporaneous documents, film footage and eyewitness accounts from those present before, during and after the production of The Brothers Grimsby.'

Sacha's team also provided nine anonymous statements from crew members that backed the claim that the scene was in the script.

It comes soon after Rebel spoke out to thank fans for their support as she insisted that she won't be 'bullied or threatened' on Tuesday 

Rebel said that she feels it is 'karma' that the film didn't perform well at the box office when it was released.

It comes soon after Rebel spoke out to thank fans for their support as she insisted that she won't be 'bullied or threatened' on Tuesday.

Taking to Instagram, she wrote: 'Thanks so much to everyone who has sent gorgeous messages of support in the last few days and to those who shared with me their stories of this a**hole!'

'Don't worry I won't be bullied or threatened by this guy! And am working hard behind the scenes to make sure my book comes out! Ps my book is not ABOUT this guy - this is one chapter!'

Rebel originally claimed she was facing potential legal action after dedicating an entire chapter to a difficult working experience with a then unnamed former co-star - branded an 'a**hole' by her.

She later confirmed the actor in question is Sacha, best known for his comedy creations Ali G and Borat.

Sharing an Instagram post on Sunday, she wrote: 'I will not be silenced by high priced lawyers or PR crisis managers. The a****** I am talking about in ONE CHAPTER of my book is: Sacha Baron Cohen.'

The post came just two days after the Pitch Perfect star alleged that a celebrity she once worked with was threatening her over the release of the memoir.

'I wrote about an a**hole in my book,' she told Instagram followers. 'Now, said a****** is trying to threaten me. He’s hired a crisis PR manager and lawyers. 

'He is trying to stop press coming out about my book. But the book WILL come out and you will all know the truth.'