Rebel Wilson has won her high profile defamation trial against Bauer Media, the company behind Woman's Way and Australian's Women Weekly. 

After two days of deliberations, an all female six person jury delivered a unanimous verdict in favour of the Pitch Perfect star. 

The 37 year old was defamed by the media organisation when they accused her of lying about her age, her real name and her childhood. The judge in the case, Justice John Dixon, has yet to decide on a figure for damages. 

The jury found that a Woman's Day article published in 2015 titled “Just who is the REAL Rebel?” painted Wilson as a serial liar who invented fantastic stories in order to become a Hollywood star. Not only did the jury find the article to be damaging to Wilson's reputation but they also found the article to be motivated by malice. 

Wilson believed there were eight articles in total, published under the Bauer Media umbrella that painted her as a serial liar and seriously damaged her reputation. She claimed that she missed out on movie roles in Kung Fu Panda 3 and Trolls as a result of the habitual liar image that was being presented by Bauer Media's outlets.  

She also believed that the first Woman's Day article "Just who is the REAL Rebel?" was deliberately published just days after the release of Pitch Perfect 2 in order for it to maximize both magazine sales and damage to her career. 

Wilson told the court during the trial that she had never lied about her age but had stopped disclosing it since 2009 on the advice of her agents and publicists. 

"I would say my standard response, a lady never tells,” she said. 

Speaking to journalists outside of court, Wilson elaborated on how this trial was never about money and outlined the reasons she felt she had to take this to court. 

“I was confident from the start. This has definitely been a long and very hard fight but I felt that I had to take a stand. I had to stand up to a bully: a huge media organisation, Bauer media group, who took me down in 2015 with a series of grubby, completely false articles,”

Via The Australian