Russell Brand once joked about raping and killing a woman in an on-stage interview 10 years before UK police confirmed on Monday that he was being investigated over allegations of historic sexual assault.
The 48-year-old embattled star made the 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 deleted from YouTube.
While admitting he’s a “sexual narcissist,” Katy Perry’s ex-husband told Herring that his biggest secret is that he’s actually “just a guy from Essex, from a single-parent family. [who’s] quite a comprehensive show.”
“It is not my extremism that I need to protect, but my worldliness … if there is anything to protect, that is all,” he said.
“Oh — and I once raped someone,” he added, laughing as some in the audience gasped.
“I killed him after that,” Brand added with a grin. “He’ll never tell.”
Russell Brand joked in a 2013 interview that he “raped somebody” and “killed him afterwards.”Richard Herring/YouTube
In the same interview for Herring’s podcast, Brand — whose accusers included a then-16-year-old who he claims was called “the kid” — joked about the propensity of the Ancient Greeks to have sex with minors.
“They don’t care, and they’re smart, aren’t they?” asked the actor — mimicking someone having sex.
“I’m looking for a little boy! This is great!”
Brand went on to joke about adults, like babysitters, having sex in front of children — including himself as a child — and suggested he had sex with half the women in the audience.
Later in the interview, Herring asked Brand about his use of homelessness to promote his Messiah tour, asking if, as a billionaire comedian, he thought it was “exploitative.”
“You should have seen what happened after that video,” he replied, miming having sex with homeless people and smoking them.
“Who will care? Who will you tell?” Brand asked. “If society cared, you wouldn’t be homeless.”
The interview has since been removed from YouTube and SoundCloud amid allegations that four women have come forward claiming 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 on Monday said it was investigating “reports of an alleged sexual assault that took place in Soho in central London in 2003.”
That was three years before the earliest alleged assault was reported in a joint investigation published Saturday by The Times of London and its Sunday team along with Channel 4’s “Dispatches.”
The team also urged “anyone who believes they may have been the victim of a sexual offence, no matter how long ago, to contact us.”
The interview has been removed from YouTube and Spotify amid allegations from four women who claim 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 “thoroughly reviewed.”
Brand has vehemently denied any wrongdoing, and instead blamed the “mainstream media” for “a stunning, somewhat baroque litany of attacks.”
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A woman, identified as “Nadia,” claimed the “Get Him to the Greek” star raped her against the wall of her Los Angeles home in 2012 and was treated at a rape crisis center the same day, according to medical records cited by the outlet.
The woman later told Brand that she had been scared and felt taken advantage of, telling him, “When a girl [says] NO, that means no” — to which he replied he was “very sorry,” a text message quoted by the report shows.
Another accuser who was 16 at the time claimed that the 31-year-old called her “child” and assaulted her during their three-month “emotionally abusive and controlling” relationship, according to the report.
The woman – who is known only by the pseudonym “Alice” and is over the age of consent in the UK – said Brand was “looking after” her, a relative claimed to the Sunday Times during its investigation.
She claimed Brand would allegedly give her a script 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 broadcaster is currently investigating this claim.
One of her accusers said she was just 16 when Brand “fixed” her.REUTERS
Allegations from Brand’s other accusers include a woman who claims he sexually assaulted her at his West Hollywood property after they met at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, according to the Times of London.
The woman, identified as “Phoebe,” said at one point she noticed the other staff left and she was alone with Brand.
She realizes Brand wants to have sex with her and ends up trapping her in the bedroom and chasing her before pinning her down and attacking her.
“I saw something coming over his eyes, I swear to God, like, black, his eyes had no color anymore, they were black, like the devil,” he told the outlet. “Like a different person literally entered his body.”
Brand has vehemently denied the allegations, and instead blamed the “mainstream media” for the “litany of stunning, somewhat baroque attacks.” AP
“I thought he had pulled my pants down but I fought so hard and I screamed so hard, hoping I could get through somehow,” she continued, “I don’t know what the exact definition of ‘sexual assault’ is, but it felt like it. He did not rape me.”
Both Channel 4, where Brand hosted the station’s successful “Big Brother” spin-off show, and the BBC, said they were investigating.
With Postal wire
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