Russell Brand once joked about raping and killing a woman in an onstage interview 10 years before UK police confirmed Monday that he is being investigated over sexual assault allegations.
The embattled star, 48, made off-color comments, along with jokes about sex with children and homeless people, in a 2013 interview with Richard Herring that was shared by the Daily Mail after being widely removed from YouTube.
While admitting he was a “sexual narcissist,” Katy Perry’s ex-husband told Herring his biggest secret was that he was actually “just a guy from Essex, from a single-parent family.” [who’s] a pretty complete boast.”
“It’s not my extremism that I need to protect, it’s my worldliness… if there’s anything to protect, it’s that,” he said.
“Oh, and I also raped someone once,” he added, laughing as some in the audience gasped.
“I killed her afterwards,” Brand added with a smile. “She’ll never tell.”
Russell Brand joked in a 2013 interview that he “raped someone” and “then killed her.” Richard Herring/YouTube
In the same interview for Herring’s podcast, Brand, whose accusers include a 16-year-old he allegedly called “the boy,” joked about the ancient Greeks’ propensity for having sex with minors.
“They didn’t care and they were smart, right?” the actor asked, imitating someone having sex.
“I’m a fucking little boy! This is great!”
Brand continued to joke about adults, such as babysitters, having sex in front of children (including himself as a child) and suggested that he had had sex with half the women in the audience.
Later in the interview, Herring asked Brand about his use of homeless people to promote his Messiah tour, asking if, as a millionaire comedian, he thought it was “exploitative.”
“You should have seen what happened after the video,” he responded, while simulating having sex with a homeless person and putting out a cigarette.
“Who is going to care? Who are you going to tell? Mark asked. “If society cared, you wouldn’t be homeless.”
The interview has since been removed from YouTube and SoundCloud amid accusations from four women who claim the actor raped, sexually assaulted and abused them.
Brand also joked about the ancient Greeks having sex with minors while discovering different triangles. Richard Herring/YouTube
It resurfaced as London’s Metropolitan Police said on Monday it was investigating “a report of a sexual assault that allegedly took place in Soho, central London, in 2003.”
That’s three years before the first of the alleged assaults reported in a joint investigation published Saturday by the Times of London and its Sunday team along with Channel 4’s “Dispatches.”
The force also urged “anyone who believes they may have been a victim of a sexual offence, no matter how long ago it was, to contact us”.
The interview has since been removed from YouTube and Spotify amid accusations from four women who claimed the star raped, sexually assaulted and abused them.Richard Herring/YouTube
The UK Times said on Monday that more women had contacted the newspaper with allegations against Brand and that they would be “rigorously monitored”.
Brand has vehemently denied any wrongdoing and has instead blamed the “mainstream media” for the “litany of surprising and rather baroque attacks.”
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A woman, identified as “Nadia,” alleged that the “Get Him to the Greek” star raped her against the wall of his Los Angeles home in 2012 and was treated at a rape crisis center that same day, according to reports. cited medical records. through points of sale.
The woman later told Brand that she had been scared and that he had taken advantage of her, telling him: “When a little girl [says] “NO means no,” to which he responded, “I’m so sorry,” text messages cited in the report show.
Another accuser who was 16 at the time alleged that the then-31-year-old called her “the girl” and assaulted her during their “emotionally abusive and controlling” three-month relationship, according to the report.
The woman, known only by the pseudonym “Alice” and who was over the age of consent in the UK, said Brand was “grooming” her, an allegation a family member backed up to the Sunday Times during its investigation.
She claimed Brand would allegedly provide her with scripts on how to trick her parents into allowing her to visit him, and claimed he would send his “BBC car” to pick her up from school. The station is investigating these allegations.
One of her accusers said she was only 16 when Brand “groomed” her.REUTERS
Brand’s other accusers include a woman who claimed he sexually assaulted her at his property in West Hollywood after they met at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, according to the Times of London.
The woman, identified as “Phoebe,” said at one point she realized other staff members had left and she was left alone with Brand.
She realized Brand wanted to have sex with her and said he eventually caught her in a bedroom and chased her before pinning her down and assaulting her.
“I saw something pass through his eyes, I swear to God, like black, his eyes no longer had color, they were black, like the devil,” he recalled to the outlet. “As if a different person had literally entered his body.”
Brand has vehemently denied the allegations and instead blamed the “mainstream media” for the “litany of surprising and rather baroque attacks.”
“I think he had his hands in my pants, but I was fighting really hard and screaming really loud, hoping I could get through it somehow,” he continued, “I don’t know what the real definition of ‘sexual assault’ is. It is, but it feels like that. “He didn’t rape me.”
Both Channel 4, where Brand hosted a spin-off of the station’s hit show “Big Brother”, and the BBC said they were investigating.
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