Rebel Wilson: Being forced to come out with Ramona Agruma was very hard

Rebel Wilson said being forced to come out with her girlfriend, Ramona Agruma, was “very hard” after an Australian newspaper accused her of ruining its exclusive scoop.

In response to the outrage over the Sydney Morning Herald’s article, the “Senior Year” star tweeted, “Thanks for your comments, it was a very hard situation but trying to handle it with grace 💗.”

Wilson revealed Thursday that the relationship she had been teasing for a couple of months was with Agruma, whom she described as her “Disney Princess.”

A couple of days later, the Sydney Morning Herald’s Andrew Hornery wrote a piece explaining that they were planning to report on the relationship and gave Wilson and her team two days to comment before publishing.

“Wilson opted to gazump the story, posting about her new ‘Disney Princess’,” Hornery wrote. The op-ed also commented on 42-year-old Wilson’s past relationship with Jacob Busch.

Social media immediately criticized Hornery and the publication for what many felt was blackmailing Wilson; however, Sydney Morning Herald editor Bevan Shields denied the paper had “outed” the Pitch Perfect star in a statement released Sunday.

“Our weekly Private Sydney celebrity column last week asked Wilson if she wished to comment about her new partner. We would have asked the same questions had Wilson’s new partner been a man,” he wrote. “To say that the Herald ‘outed’ Wilson is wrong.”

“Like other mastheads do every day, we simply asked questions and as standard practice included a deadline for a response,” Shields continued. “I had made no decision about whether or what to publish, and the Herald’s decision about what to do would have been informed by any response Wilson supplied.”

Hornery’s statement concluded with wishing the couple “well.”