Russell Brand speaks for the primary time to disclaim rape allegations
- Brand, 48, denied a number of rape allegations throughout wide-ranging interview with Tucker Carlson
Shamed Russell Brand has spoken publicly for the primary time about a number of rape allegations he faces denying the accusations and describing them as ‘hurtful assaults’.
Brand, 48, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s X present Wednesday throughout a rambling and wide-ranging 45-minute interview the place he referenced the allegations he faces and the continuing police and BBC investigations a number of occasions.
‘Of course I deny any allegations… which have been superior,’ he stated, including ‘I reject the allegations within the strongest attainable phrases.’
The star of Arthur and Forgetting Sarah Marshall described the crimes he is accused of as ‘appalling’ earlier than including criticism he faces is a ‘deliberate profound try and shut down any dissent in an astonishingly aggressive means.’
During the dialogue, he says that on the time of the documentary his toddler son who was 12 weeks outdated on the time was present process coronary heart surgical procedure.
‘My son was born with a coronary heart situation, whereas this was occurring he was present process coronary heart surgical procedure at 12 weeks outdated,’ he advised Carlson.
Brand has been questioned by police twice in relation to a complete of 9 alleged offences and police inquiries are ongoing. He has at all times maintained that his relationships have been consensual.
Russell Brand proven right here throughout his look on Carlson’s present on January 31
Brand has at all times vehemently denied the claims made in opposition to him and claimed his relationships have been ‘at all times consensual’
British police stated in September they’d launched an investigation into numerous allegations of non-recent sexual offences following media reviews that girls had accused Brand of a string of sexual assaults.
Brand has rejected what he has described as ‘very severe allegations’, saying on his social media channels he has by no means had non-consensual intercourse.
There was no quick response to a request for touch upon Sunday’s report from representatives for Brand.
Speaking on Carlson’s broadcast, Brand stated: ‘I put myself in a susceptible place by being very promiscuous.’
‘Attacks like this, accused of what I contemplate to be probably the most appalling crimes, may be very painful and hurtful. But there are penalties to the silly means I lived previously,’ he continued.
MailOnline revealed this week that Brand, who shares three kids together with his spouse of seven years, Laura Gallacher, was operating his enterprise operation out of a disused pub within the city of Pishall, Oxfordshire.
The report goes on to reveal that Brand, regardless of his constant claims that he has been canceled on account of the sexual assault allegations, makes almost £5 million per yr from his controversial content material.
When Brand initially purchased his premises, he reportedly advised locals of his plans to show into a restaurant and wellness middle, however has since turned it into the headquarters of his world operation.
Carlson joined Brand for an interview in 2023 shortly after the host was fired by Fox News
During one other portion of the Carlson broadcast, Brand’s consideration turned to David Icke.
‘It terrifies me to ponder, Tucker, that folks like Alex Jones and in our nation, David Icke … seem to have been forward of the curve,’ Brand stated. Adding that it was ‘extraordinary’ for the way lengthy the pair have been talking about ‘globalization.’
Allegations of holocaust denial have been labelled at Icke since his 1995 guide And the Truth Shall Set You Free. In the guide, Icke alleged that distinguished Jewish households ‘helped finance Adolf Hitler.’
He additionally wrote that colleges ‘indoctrinate kids with the unchallenged model of occasions’ with the mainstream account of the Holocaust due to their use of free copies of the movie Schindler’s List.’
Brand and Icke’s relationship goes again almost 20 years. In 2008, Icke appeared twice as a visitor on the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star’s notorious BBC Radio 2.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, Jones, who’s most identified for his denials concerning the Sandy Hook Elementary capturing which noticed 20 kids shot useless, will not be overtly anti-Semitic however ‘has featured antisemitic company on his present.’
One such visitor, Kanye West, admitted in a December 2022 interview on the present that ‘favored Hitler.’ Icke himself has been a visitor on Jones’ InfoWars present on a number of events.
Brand pictured with Holocaust denier David Icke in 2008 on the peak of Brand’s ill-fated Hollywood profession
Brand’s shift from left-wing darling to a well-liked with the correct has been described because the ‘grift drift’
This week, liberal watchdog Media Matters printed a examine on Brand’s transfer from being a left-wing darling to somebody ‘uncritically platforms right-wing figures and baseless conspiracy theories.’
Less than ten years in the past, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld known as Brand ‘left-wing commie scum.’ In the previous 18 months, Gutfeld often speaks glowingly about Brand saying that the actor selected ‘fact’ over ‘stardom’ in strolling away from his film profession.
Media Matters calls Brand’s shift the ‘grift drift.’
Brand stated within the look that he believes that ‘authoritarianism’ is being weaponized with phrases resembling ‘care, concern, security, and comfort’ however that the final word objective is for people to lose their freedoms.
‘It appears to me that we’re in a time the place we lurch from one disaster to a different. The disaster is at all times used to legitimize sure options and a docile or terrified public is willingly to take part on this proposed options that often contain giving up their freedom,’ he went on.
‘We’re regularly being invited to surrender our freedom in trade for security or comfort and it appears that evidently this course of is radically escalating. And I really feel that that is one thing that we are going to see extra of within the coming yr.’
Brand has been questioned by detectives from London’s Metropolitan Police over allegations of historic intercourse offences.
British police stated in September they’d launched an investigation into numerous allegations of non-recent sexual offences following media reviews that girls had accused Brand of a string of sexual assaults.
Brand has rejected what he has described as ‘very severe allegations’, saying on his social media channels he has by no means had non-consensual intercourse.
There was no quick response to a request for touch upon Sunday’s report from representatives for Brand.
‘A person in his 40s attended a police station in South London on Thursday 16 November 2023,’ the Metropolitan Police stated in a press release, declining to verify whether or not it was Brand.
‘He was interviewed beneath warning by detectives in relation to a few non-recent sexual offences. Enquiries proceed,’ the pressure added.
