Russell Brand speaks out to deny ‘most appalling’ rape allegations

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Russell Brand has denied the “very, very hurtful” allegations of rape, sexual assault and abusive behaviour levelled towards him.

Complaints towards the 48-year-old comic and Hollywood actor have been made to the BBC and Metropolitan Police after a Channel 4 Dispatches and Sunday Times investigation in September revealed accusations by 4 ladies of rape, sexual assault and abuse between 2006 and 2013.

In an interview with former Fox News broadcaster Tucker Carlson, Brand stated it was “very, very painful” to be accused of “the most appalling crimes”.

The journalistic investigation, which dominated headlines internationally, was printed whereas his then 12-week-old son was present process coronary heart surgical procedure, Brand additionally stated.

“I suppose what that did is it revealed that what we were experiencing was a public concoction,” stated the Get Him To The Greek actor. “I am aware that I put myself in an extremely vulnerable position by being very, very promiscuous. That is not the kind of conduct that I endorse, and it’s certainly not how I would live now.

“I’ve been shown a good many things, as a result of these events – the value of my family, the value of friendship, the value of being able to speak publicly.

“I mentioned my son because throughout it I was able to maintain what is really important in life … hurtful as it is to be accused of what I consider to be the most appalling crimes, to be accused of this is very, very painful, and very hurtful.”

He added: “But I am being shown that there are consequences for the rather foolish way that I lived in the past – although of course again to reiterate, due to the nature of the world we live, of course I deny any allegations of the kind that have been advanced.”

According to the investigation printed in September, Brand allegedly entered a relationship with one of many ladies when he was 31 and he or she was aged 16. On their first date, she claims he requested her to affirm if she was 16 and stated: “I don’t give a f*** if you’re 12 … I need to know where I stand legally.”

She claims that he sexually assaulted her at his house simply earlier than their relationship ended.

Another girl is alleged to have obtained remedy at a rape disaster centre after she claims she was raped by Brand. The Times stated she later texted him to say “When a girl say[s] NO it means no” after the alleged assault, and that Brand despatched a textual content again in apology.

The third complainant is alleged to have claimed Brand assaulted her in Los Angeles, with the star then threatening authorized motion if she took her case additional. The Times reported that Brand was “physically and emotionally abusive” in direction of the fourth complainant.

The allegations additionally included controlling, abusive and predatory behaviour, which he denies.

In November, the BBC and Channel 4 supplied updates on their inside investigations into Brand’s time at 6 Music and BBC Radio 2 from 2006 to 2008. He had additionally been concerned in Big Brother’s Efourum and Big Brother’s Big Mouth, between 2006 and 2013, together with different exhibits commissioned on Channel 4.

In November, Channel 4 boss Alex Mahon stated the corporate’s inside investigation was weeks away from completion. That similar month, the BBC stated that there had been quite a few complaints made to the company about Brand’s time working there.

Last month, Scotland Yard stated a person in his 40s had been interviewed below warning at a south London police station over six allegations of “non-recent sexual offences”, following questioning in November over three different claims.

One of Brand’s accusers beforehand described his response to the allegations as “insulting”, telling BBC Radio 4’s Women’s Hour: “It’s laughable that he would even imply that this is some kind of mainstream media conspiracy. He’s not outside the mainstream – he did a Universal Pictures movie last year, he did Minions, a children’s movie.

“He is very much part of the mainstream media, he just happens to have a YouTube channel where he talks about conspiracy theories to an audience that laps it up.”