Russell Brand (‘Paso de ti’) accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse
This Saturday Sunday Times published a devastating report having the actor and comedian Russell Brand as a center. Through research between The Times of London and the documentary team Dispatchesof Channel 4, echoed numerous accusations of violence, sexual assault and emotional abuse against Brand. It was published hours before a documentary by 90 minutes picking up the song was broadcast on Channel 4, and also coinciding with the preparations for a performance by Brand at the Wembley Park Londoner.
“Five women, four of whom asked to remain anonymous, agreed to share their stories of serious sexual allegations on the show.” Brand began by presenting MTV UK before jumping to Hollywood, and starring in comedies like I pass from you either All about my mess. Then his outbursts, along with her marriage to Katy Perryhad already surrounded him with controversy, but this reached a new status when he intervened last year in Death on the Niledirected by Kenneth Branagh around the novel Christie Agatha.
In recent years Brand had been moving away from his acting role to become a self-proclaimed “wellness guru”, analyzing current political events to, coinciding with the health emergency, echo denialist theories. It is in this context where the research of Sunday Timescollecting the testimonies of several women with whom Brand had a relationship between 2006 and 2013. One of them says that Brand attacked her when she was 16 years old and he was 13. It was within the framework of a three-month relationship “emotionally and sexually abusive”.
Brand would have “forced his penis down her throat” on one occasion, causing him to suffocate. During intercourse he removed the condom without her knowing. Brand nicknamed him “the girl” and asked him to read fragments of Lolita of Vladimir Nabokovand at one point he kissed his mother “in the mouth”. Another woman, who has also not given her name, says Brand raped her in Los Angeles in 2012, and a third claims Brand sexually assaulted her at her West Hollywood home around 2013, later threatening her with threats if she spoke to him. someone about what happened.
Brand’s defense
His former personal assistant, Helen Bergerwitnessed Brand show “intimate photos of women” on several evenings to his friends, while a fellow comedian, Dan Slottensures that in the workplace, employees “they warned each other about Brand”. A comedian says that Brand “it bit his face” every time she saw him, while a 23-year-old athlete claims that the comedian once showed her his penis and hinted that he could give her oral sex.
Shortly after the text appeared, Brand’s representation agency, Tavistock Wood (which leads to talents as Lily James either Dominic West) has stopped working with him. Meanwhile, Brand has quickly set up a defense. During the show in London (Bipolarization), Brand denied everything in front of the public, receiving a standing ovation while saying “I love you. I love you. There are things I can’t talk about and I hope you can appreciate that I’m going to give you everything I have.”
Hours before, and as a precaution before the article began to circulate, Brand published a video. In So, This is Happening The comedian addresses the accusations, and also denies them again. “They allude to the time when he worked in the major media, when he continually appeared in the newspapers, when he acted in the movies. And as I have written at length in my books, I was very, very promiscuous.”
“Now, during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were always absolutely consensual. I was always transparent about it (almost too transparent) and I am also transparent now,” concludes the comedian.
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