Russell Brand arrives at Southwark Crown Court on Friday in London. |
In a scene from a horror show, Russell Brand was entering the UK courtroom yesterday clutching a Puritan prayer book, wearing crucifixes. The actor and comedian faces 5 counts of rape and assault. During the pre-trail hearing, Brand repeated 5 times that he was not guilty.
The trial in London won't happen until next year, 2026, and he's currently out on bail in Florida.
Brand recently converted to Christianity, and leaned heavily into his 'faith' while denying charges that go back almost a quarter of a century.
There are four women who came forward to accuse him of attacking them. They were all separate incidents that started early in his career, while on the radio, television, and MTV anchor. Brand will be 50 next week.
From NPR:
One of the women says she met Brand at a 1999 conference for the center-left Labour Party in the English seaside town of Bournemouth, and alleges that he raped her in a nearby hotel room. Another says Brand grabbed her forearm and tried to drag her into a men's bathroom at a London TV station in 2001. A third accuser says he grabbed her breasts, pulled her into a bathroom in a London bar in 2004, and forced her to perform oral sex. The fourth woman says she met Brand while he was working on a spinoff of the Big Brother reality TV series between 2004 and 2005, and that he pushed her against a wall, groped and kissed her.
Brand denies any wrongdoing with all of them.
"I was a fool before I lived in the light of the lord. I was a drug addict, a sex addict and an imbecile," he says in the video. "But what I never was, was a rapist. I've never engaged in nonconsensual activity."
Suuuuuure Russell Brand. Suuuuure you didn't.
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