Vanessa Feltz lower ties with Russell Brand after he requested for intercourse together with her daughter, 15
Vanessa said she was “horrified” and “disgusted” when the rapist asked her live on air if he could have sex with her and her two teenage daughters
Vanessa Feltz has told how she was “disgusted” by his comments(Image: At Home with Vanessa / YouTube )
Vanessa Feltz has revealed how she cut ties with comedian Russell Brand after he made lewd and sick remarks about her underage daughter. She says she was “horrified” and “disgusted” when the rapist asked her live on air if he could have sex with her and her two teenage daughters.
The TV host says she broke off their friendship forever after he made the vile remarks during an interview with her which has since gone viral.
In it, he repeatedly asks Vanessa if he can ‘have it off’ with her daughters – the youngest of whom was just 15 at the time in 2006 during a chat for MTV.
Midway through their conversation on the show, Brand asked Vanessa: “Can I have it off with either you or your daughters?”
Vanessa replied: “No, you may not” but Brand carried on, saying: “Come on, some of them are adults.”
He asked to sleep with her underage daughter(Image: PA)
Appearing visibly more offended, Vanessa struck a more serious tone, telling him: ‘I’ve got two daughters, the answer is no” and he then asked: “None of them?”
“Neither,” Vanessa replied, adding: “Will you stop it?”
Russell pressed again, saying: “Hold on, you’ve two whole daughters and I can’t even have one. Selfish.”
Vanessa then replied: “When you have your own daughters, you’ll know why I said that” to which Brand replied: “Well I won’t sleep with them.”
An uncomfortable Vanessa replied, ‘I’m not sure about that,’ in a frustrated jab towards the host and Russell added: ‘I’m only mucking about, I’m not actually going to sleep with my own kids. It’s only a joke. It’s only words.”
Speaking on her LBC radio show recently, Vanessa recalled the interview and moment saying that was the exact second she decided to cut ties with him completely.
She says she cut ties with him after the lewd comments
Vanessa said: “I wasn’t able to laugh it off, I didn’t want to laugh it off, I didn’t think it was at all funny.
“I was horrified, I was absolutely disgusted in fact, even with a baying audience roaring in the bear pit, I could not pretend to think what he said was funny.
“It didn’t feel like a joke and I stopped being friendly with him that night.”
She also spoke of her empathy towards the victims being fearful of coming forward, saying she was assaulted by another convicted sex pest Rolf Harris, while they were in Channel Four’s Big Breakfast bed.
She said: “His wife was about two feet away, he was adored by the nation, loved by the royal family for all I knew he was the first woman he had ever treated that way.
“There was no chance on earth that I would have dreamt of launching a complaint or making any sort of fuss about it.
“I stayed completely silent, I told my then husband at the time and a couple of friends but other than that I never said a word about it
The interview where the comments were made(Image: ITV)
“I see why reporting a sexual assault or rape is traumatic and nerve wracking even terrifying.
“The thought of facing an inquisition from your attacker’s legal team suggesting you are a liar fantastic, that you did consent, that you are a promiscuous, sex obsessed or have a history of debauchery would be more than enough to deter most women.”
