“I was petrified … that they might want to take one of the girls or something.”
Rebel Wilson was a guest on the UK series Straight Talking yesterday – and in her conversation with host Ant Middleton, she revealed that she was abducted at gunpoint and held captive overnight while traveling in Mozambique.
“We were in this cattle truck and these men came in another truck with many weapons,” she said, as reported by the Daily Mail. “[They pulled up beside us] with the big guns and they said, ‘Yes, you have to get out of your truck.’ “
Rebel says the kidnappers took her and her friends, with guns aimed at them, to a home “in the middle of nowhere”. She remembers having no idea what they planned to do with her.
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“I felt very good in the crisis. I was like a team leader,” she told Ant. She went on to describe the plan she planned to keep her group safe.
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“They sat us down and I said, ‘Everyone, hold your arms’, because I was petrified during the night with the possibility that they might want to take one of the girls or something.'”
Rebel says they were kept in the strange house overnight, but in the morning, their kidnappers let them go. In retrospect, Rebel now believes that men probably did not want to her. She thinks they wanted access to her truck and possibly filled it with contraband while her group was being held hostage.
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“I think maybe those guys, maybe, used us to smuggle illegal stuff in the bottom of the truck,” she said.
Fortunately, Rebel and his friends emerged unscathed from the situation. They now have a terrible story to tell.
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