Rebel Wilson has named the actor who she lost her virginity to at the age of 35.
Writing about her exes in a chapter titled Late Bloomer in her newly released memoir Rebel Rising, the Australian actress, 44, reveals 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 because she felt that ‘as a big girl, no one would ever truly find me sexually attractive.’
Gushing about their intense chemistry, Rebel also confessed that Mickey – son of multimillionaire banker Michael Gooch, founder of the $700million GFI Group – didn’t know it was her first time.
‘And, Micks, I know this might be news to you if you are reading this, but yes I lost my virginity to you,’ she writes in the memoir.
Rebel Wilson has named actor and comedian Mickey Gooch Jr as who she lost her virginity to at the age of 35 (pictured together in 2015)
Writing about her exes in a chapter titled Late Bloomer in her newly released memoir Rebel Rising, the Australian actress, 44, reveals Gooch was her first sexual partner
The Pitch Perfect actress said that she ‘high-fived myself’ after losing her virginity to Mickey in a room at the Greenwich Hotel in New York while she was filming the 2016 movie How To Be Single – a film which aspiring actor Mickey also ended landing a small role in.
Rebel explained how she was motivated to have sex after learning her mother had breast cancer, writing ‘life IS short. I didn’t want to live my life without experiencing sex. Experiencing love. I put it out into the universe that I was finally ready. I was going to feel the fear and just do it.’
‘I was going to slut it up with the next guy that came along – who also seemed like a suitable marriage candidate.’
When she returned to Los Angeles after spending time with mother at home in Australia, Rebel met Mickey after her Pitch Perfect co-star Hana Mae Lee set them up.
Rebel gushed that she was immediately smitten with the ‘chiseled’ and ‘sexy’ actor, writing ‘first I love the name because of loving Mickey Mouse and all things perfect.’
Other ‘ticks’ included that fact he owned a mansion with a pool overlooking the ocean and he barbequed for her on their first date.
Rebel writes that Mickey ‘pursued me’ and had enough money that he could chase her around the world as her movie career soared.
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 plush hotel room.
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 because she felt that ‘as a big girl, no one would ever truly find me sexually attractive.’
Gushing about their intense chemistry, Rebel also confessed that Mickey – son of multimillionaire banker Michael Gooch – didn’t know it was her first time
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 had sex she wanted to be with Mickey ‘all the time,’ quipping: ‘I’m a late starter and now I want to be MVP.’
‘I’d imagine having sex and being intimate and everything would always be in my head. Now I’m someone who lives much more in my body. And I’m loving it. Now I actually have a boyfriend and he’s handsome and rich to boot.’
Rebel and Mickey ended up dating for six months but the relationship fizzled out during a holiday with Rebel’s family.
She writes that she innocently offered Mickey, who had told her he’s had previous stints in rehab, a sleeping tablet for the flight to Dubai.
Mickey’s behaviour began to change as the couple travelled onto Ibiza with Rebel writing ‘if I were more adept at dealing with addicts, I’d pick up on the fact that he’s relapsed at some point on that trip.’
Mickey later confessed to Rebel that he had been in rehab seventeen times, with the actress vowing to support him with his latest attempt to get sober.
Mickey is an actor, comedian and producer and head of Skit Bags Entertainment (pictured in 2020)
Revealing that she waited a year to see if he could get clean and they could rekindle their relationship, the actress admitted in her capacity as a role model to young people she knew she couldn’t date someone who was an addict.
The pair have remained friends with Mickey sharing a throwback photo of the pair in 2021 and calling her ‘the most beautiful girl I know.!… Inside and out.’
The actress has revealed she has been open about her sexual history in her new book, in the hopes that it will help young people because ‘not everybody has to lose their virginity as a teenager.’
She divulged that detail in the hopes that it will help young people because ‘not everybody has to lose their virginity as a teenager.’
‘People can wait till they’re ready or wait till they’re a bit more mature,’ the Pitch Perfect star told People.
Rebel writes that Mickey ‘pursued me’ and had enough money that he could chase her around the world as her movie career soared.
The actress said that she ‘high-fived myself’ after losing her virginity to Mickey in a room at the Greenwich Hotel in New York while she was filming the 2016 movie How To Be Single (pictured in the movie)
‘And I think that could be a positive message. You obviously don’t have to wait until you’re in your thirties like me, but you shouldn’t feel pressure as a young person,’ Rebel added.
In the past, she even lied about having had sex just to not have to talk about it.
‘There was one vague time, I think I told my best friend, “Oh, yeah, I just did it to just get it over with when I was like 23,”‘ Wilson revealed.
‘Just to really avoid the questions,’ she explained. ‘Normally I would just leave the room when the conversation was happening.
‘And then the people that said, “Oh, at 24, it’s so late.” And then I’m sitting here thinking, “Oh my God, my number’s 35. What the hell? I’m going to look like the biggest loser,”‘ she admitted.
Rebel thinks the era she was born in had a lot to do with her being, in her own words, ‘a late bloomer.’
She explained that she thinks if she was born 20 years later, she would have felt more open to exploring her sexuality at a younger age.
Rebel is engaged to designer Ramona Agruma and the couple welcomed their first child, Royce Lillian, via surrogate in November 2022
‘It’s absolutely incredible, if I had been born 20 years later, I probably would’ve explored my sexuality more. I just knew I was attracted to men, and that was the normal thing,” the Senior Year actress said.
‘And so when I started opening myself up probably more after my father’s death and realizing, oh, even though I’d seen marriage as a terrible thing and waste of time, I started opening myself up to that,’ she said.
‘And then only years later, meeting women and having feelings for a woman, and that, I just think it’s a sign of where society kind of was.’
She recently revealed that a situationship with a female tennis player opened her up 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.
