Rebel Wilson brushes off her book controversy as she visits the theatre in London after dropping the bombshell that a member of the British Royal family invited her to a drug-fuelled bash

Rebel Wilson appeared to brush off her book controversy as she was spotted in London visiting the theatre on Tuesday evening. 

The actress, 44, looked to be in great spirits despite dropping the bombshell in her new book that a member of the British Royal family had invited her to a drug-fuelled bash.

While the Australian star does not name the royal, but gives three hints: he is male, it happened in 2014 and he was 'fifteenth or twentieth in line to the British throne'. 

Wrapped up in a long light blue padded coat, Rebel beamed while flashing the peace sign at a photographer before disappearing into an office building before then heading to the Gillian Lynne Theatre to see the play Standing at the Sky's Edge.

Styling her hair in voluminous curls, Rebel completed the look with some jeans and stylish beige trainers as she enjoyed her evening. 

The star has been making headlines recently after the release of her explosive new memoir Rebel Rising.

In the book the Pitch Perfect star tells how she got 'a last-minute invite to a tech billionaire's party' from the royal who had told a male friend, 'We need more girls'.

'What a perfect opportunity to find a boyfriend, I thought.'

According to the book, the medieval-themed party was held at a rented ranch just outside Los Angeles.

Rebel says she wore a 'buxom damsel outfit complete with cone hat' – which complemented her 'child-bearing hips' – and describes the event as 'insane' with acrobats mingling with the crowd and a giant firepit surrounded by cushions.

She says she spoke to the billionaire, who is also unnamed, that night but who effectively 'blanked' her.

At the party, she claims, men were jousting on horses in a field and there was a swimming pool full of girls dressed as mermaids.

Rebel describes seeing the unnamed minor British royal there and drugs openly being handed around on trays, writing: 'I watch the British royal flounder around whilst I continuously hike up my boobs. 

'They are my best physical asset, I think… There's a huge private fireworks display and then all of a sudden, it's 2am and a guy comes out with a large tray piled with what looks like a ton of candy.

'I'm like, "Oooh, is that candy?" And the guy holding the tray says, "No, this is the molly [or MDMA, another word for the drug ecstasy]," and I turned to the screenwriter I've been talking with, confused. 

'He says, "Oh, it's for the orgy….the orgies normally start at these things about this time".'

The book, which was published in the US earlier this month, also included shock allegations about Sacha Baron Cohen after Rebel claimed the actor told her to strip off when filming scenes for the 2016 comedy The Brothers Grimsby.

The memoir is set to be been published in the UK on April 25, however allegations about Sacha have been redacted for legal reasons. 

While the US version of her book features a chapter which includes her opinions about Sacha Baron Cohen, UK copies feature the wording crudely blacked out due to what Rebel brands 'peculiarities' of English law.

Publisher HarperCollins confirmed to MailOnline: 'The book contains some redactions in chapter 23 on pages 216, 217, 218 and 221, as well as an explanatory note at the beginning of the chapter.' 

In the book, Rebel makes claims about 52-year-old Sacha's behaviour during the filming of their 2016 comedy Grimsby, which he has strongly denied. 

After the allegations were detailed in the US version of the book, the Ali G star's spokesperson 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.' 

The UK version includes a reference to 'the worst experience of my professional life. An incident that left me feeling bullied, humiliated and compromised...

'It can't be printed here due to the peculiarities of the law in England and Wales.'

The rest of the page is redacted, with black lines also removing shorter details elsewhere in the chapter.

The Bridesmaids star said her aim was not to cancel Sacha with her recollections in the memoir, but to retell an experience which made her feel 'completely disrespected, which led to me treating myself with even more disrespect by eating in an extremely unhealthy way'.

In the UK book, Rebel says she 'rues the day' she met Sacha, who she describes as her 'idol'.

She describes how they first met at a dinner party hosted by Little Britain star Matt Lucas, and a year later he offered her a role in Grimsby, which was released in North America as The Brothers Grimsby.

She played Dawn, the wife of Sacha's character Nobby, a football fan who gets drawn into the world of his secret agent brother.

Last month, she first named Sacha as the celebrity responsible for making threats over the book after which his representatives hit back.

Taking to Instagram to confirm the identity, Rebel 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.' 

In the wake of her statement, Sacha spoke out to TMZ via representatives, saying: 'While we appreciate the importance of speaking out, these demonstrably false claims are directly contradicted by extensive detailed evidence...

'[With] contemporaneous documents, film footage, and eyewitness accounts from those present before, during and after the production of The Brothers Grimsby.'