Rebel Wilson Is Sorry For Going On A Twitter Blocking Spree
Last week, the publicity tour for Rebel Wilson’s upcoming romantic comedy Isn’t It Romantic had people thinking “Isn’t she delusional” after she claimed she was the first plus-size star of a rom-com. Of course that wasn’t true, and Twitter came after her. Rebel responded by blocking the people who called her out, which only made things worse. Rebel is now sorry.
Rebel walked back her comments about being the first, as well as her comments about how Queen Latifah and Mo’nique might not have technically been considered plus-size or leads.
In a couple of well-intentioned moments, hoping to lift my fellow plus sized women up, I neglected to show the proper respect to those who climbed this mountain before me like Mo’Nique, Queen Latifah, Melissa McCarthy, Ricki Lake and likely many others.
— Rebel Wilson (@RebelWilson) November 5, 2018
The addition of Melissa McCarthy is a bit confusing, since I don’t believe Melissa McCarthy has ever starred in a romantic comedy. Unless Rebel is counting Melissa’s perfect on-screen chemistry with those fingerless leather gloves in The Heat? See, this is the kind of questioning that might have previously gotten me blocked on Twitter by Rebel, but not anymore. At least not right now. Rebel also acknowledged that she shut down any conversation by blocking people.
With the help of some very compassionate and well-thought out responses from others on social media, I now realize what I said was not only wrong but also incredibly hurtful. To be part of a problem I was hoping I was helping makes it that much more embarrassing & hard to-
— Rebel Wilson (@RebelWilson) November 5, 2018
acknowledge. I blocked people on Twitter because I was hurting from the criticism, but those are the people I actually need to hear from more, not less. Again, I am deeply sorry.
— Rebel Wilson (@RebelWilson) November 5, 2018
Mo’nique hasn’t responded to any of this, but several Twitter users let it be known that Rebel had unblocked them. So maybe someone on Rebel’s team has advised her to lay off the block button in the future, due to the fact that it’s going to be pretty hard to sell Isn’t It Romantic on the bare shirtless back of Liam Hemsworth alone. That’s a skill reserved for Chris Hemsworth only.
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