Actor Rebel Wilson had a vision that changed her future – was it divine intervention?

Jemimah Wright considers the extraordinary experience that changed the trajectory of Rebel Wilson’s life from lawyer to Hollywood superstar, and compares it to her own story of a dramatic change of direction. 

Australia actor, writer and producer, Rebel Wilson’s memoir Rebel Rising was published at the end of last month. This week Wilson was interviewed on The Diary of a CEO Podcast. She told the podcast host, Steven Bartlett, that when she was eighteen she went to South Africa on a Rotary Youth Ambassador program. ‘They wanted young people who were good at public speaking’, she said, and was selected.

It was there that Wilson contracted malaria.