Rush’s wife testifies actor wept denying allegations
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SYDNEY, Australia — The wife of actor Geoffrey Rush cried as she told a Sydney court on Wednesday how he had wept and curled up in the fetal position following newspaper allegations he had behaved inappropriately toward a female co-star.
Rush himself also admitted to the court he may have described the co-star, Eryn Jean Norvill, as “yummy”, but denied this was accompanied by inappropriate hand gestures.
Rush’s wife Jane Menelaus, who’s also an actor, wept as she appeared in the witness box at Sydney’s Federal Court, where her Oscar-winning husband is suing the publisher of Sydney’s Daily Telegraph newspaper, and its journalist Jonathon Moran, for defamation.
The Telegraph’s articles in November last year referred to an allegation Rush behaved inappropriately toward his co-star — later revealed to be Norvill — during the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of King Lear in 2015 and 2016.
