What Hornery didn’t anticipate was the scale of the backlash against his revelation, which made international headlines and drew criticism from the likes of Whoopi Goldberg and George Takei. Soon after, apologies were issued by Hornery and the Herald’s editor Bevan Shields, and the column was deleted.

“There are levels to telling people,” Wilson continued. “You tell your close family and your friends and not everybody. Across our two families, not everybody is as accepting as what you’d hope for, and we were trying to be respectful to those people and tell them in our own way.”

Wilson also noted that the experience was especially difficult for her girlfriend, who was unused to intense public scrutiny.

“It was just a hard few days, especially for my partner, who’s not used to being in the public eye and having to deal with stuff like that,” she said.

Rebel Wilson has opened up about the “grubby” ordeal that forced her to come out