Rebel Wilson names the actor and former addict who she lost her virginity to at the age of 35… and he had no clue that he was her first sexual partner

Rebel Wilson has named the actor she lost her virginity to at age 35.

Writing about her exes in a chapter titled Late Bloomer in her newly released memoir Rebel Rising, the Australian actress, 44, reveals that actor and comedian Mickey Gooch Jr., 38, was her first sexual partner.

Revealing that she was “almost at my highest weight” at the time, she explained that one of the reasons she waited so long to have sex was because she felt that “as a big girl, no one would find me sexually attractive.”

Thrilled by their intense chemistry, Rebel also confessed that Mickey, son of billionaire banker Michael Gooch, founder of the $700 million GFI group, didn’t know it was her first time.

“And, Micks, I know this might be news to you if you’re reading this, but yes, I lost my virginity to you,” she writes in her memoir.

The Pitch Perfect actress said she “high-fived” after losing her virginity to Mickey in a room at the Greenwich Hotel in New York while filming the 2016 film How To Be Single, a film that also featured aspiring actor Mickey. ended up landing. a small role in.

Rebel explained how she was motivated to have sex after finding out her mother had breast cancer, writing: “Life IS short.” I didn’t want to live my life without experiencing sex. Experience love. I released it into the universe and it was finally ready. “I was going to be afraid and just do it.”

“She was going to have a relationship with the next guy who came along, who also seemed like a suitable candidate for marriage.”

When she returned to Los Angeles after spending time with her mother at her home in Australia, Rebel met Mickey after her Pitch Perfect co-star Hana Mae Lee set them up.

Rebel gushed that she immediately fell in love with the ‘chiseled’ and ‘sexy’ actor, writing: ‘First, I love the name because I love Mickey Mouse and all things perfect.’

Other ‘tics’ included the fact that he owned a mansion with a pool overlooking the ocean and that he threw her a barbecue on their first date.

Rebel writes that Mickey “chased me” and had enough money to be able to chase her around the world as her film career skyrocketed.

It wasn’t until she was living in New York after a month of dating that she felt ready to sleep with him, inviting him to fly out and stay with her in her luxurious hotel room.

Writing candidly about their first night together, Rebel revealed that she watched porn movies the night before and used a vibrator “in preparation.”

She later added that once they had sex she wanted to be with Mickey “all the time,” joking, “I was late to start and now I want to be MVP.”

‘I imagined having sex and being intimate and it would always be in my head. Now I am someone who lives much more in my body. And I love it. Now I have a boyfriend and he is handsome and rich too.

Rebel and Mickey ended up dating for six months, but the relationship fizzled out during a vacation with Rebel’s family.

She writes that she innocently offered Mickey, who had told her he had previously been in rehab, a sleeping pill for the flight to Dubai.

Mickey’s behavior began to change when the couple traveled to Ibiza with Rebel writing “if I were more expert in dealing with addicts, I would be aware of the fact that he has relapsed at some point on that trip.”

Mickey later confessed to Rebel that he had been to rehab seventeen times and the actress promised to support him in his latest attempt to get sober.

Revealing that she waited a year to see if he could get clean and rekindle their relationship, the actress admitted in her capacity as a role model for young people that she knew she couldn’t date someone who was addicted.

The couple remains friends with Mickey, sharing a photo of the couple in 2021 and calling her ‘the most beautiful girl I know!…Inside and out.’

The actress has revealed that she has been open about her sexual history in her new book, hoping it will help young people because “not everyone has to lose their virginity as a teenager.”

She divulged that detail in the hope that it will help young people because “not everyone has to lose their virginity as a teenager.”

“People can wait until they’re ready or wait until they’re a little more mature,” the Pitch Perfect star said. People.

‘And I think that could be a positive message. “Obviously you don’t have to wait until you’re thirty like me, but you shouldn’t feel pressure when you’re young,” Rebel added.

In the past, he even lied about having sex so he wouldn’t have to talk about it.

“There was a vague moment where I think I said to my best friend, ‘Oh yeah, I did it to end this when I was 23,'” Wilson revealed.

“Just to avoid the questions,” he explained. ‘She would normally leave the room while the conversation was going on.

‘And then people saying, “Oh, at 24, it’s too late.” And then I’m sitting here thinking, “Oh my God, my number is 35. What the hell? I’m going to look like the biggest loser,” she admitted.

Rebel believes the era in which she was born had a lot to do with her being, in her own words, “late bloomer.”

She explained that she believes that if she had been born 20 years later, she would have felt more open to exploring her sexuality at a younger age.

‘It’s absolutely incredible, if I had been born 20 years later I probably would have explored my sexuality more. I just knew I was attracted to men and that was normal,” the senior actress said.

“And then when I started to open up more probably after my father died and I realized, oh, even though I had seen marriage as a terrible thing and a waste of time, I started to open up to that,” she said.

“And then just years later, meeting women and having feelings for a woman, and that, I think, is a sign of where society was.”

She recently revealed that a situation with a tennis player opened her to love for the first time.

Rebel is engaged to designer Ramona Agruma and the couple welcomed their first child, Royce Lillian, via surrogate in November 2022.