Brand, 48, says he received a letter and an email from a television company and a newspaper "listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks".

British comedian Russell Brand has posted a video denying “serious criminal allegations” set to be made against him in an upcoming television program.

“But amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks, are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute,” Brand said.

"These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies.

"And as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous. Now, during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual.

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ruh roh, Russell.

  • QuentinCallaghan@sopuli.xyz
    78·
    1 year ago

    During the last 5 years Brand has fallen gradually into a QAnon-esque rabbit hole, and all this new-age-spirituality stuff has been the gateway.

    • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
      331·
      1 year ago

      Brand has always been happy to be a cultural ambassador for whatever will attract him the most fans and make him the most money.

      His protestations here are only aimed at his gleamy eyed fans, and so that he can hear voices of agreement to soothe him. I find the news treating it as though it’s aimed at a broader audience or indicative of anything evedential to be a bit dishonest. “Man continues to play fiddle to fiddle lovers”, wow, someone get these guys a Pullitzer.

        • killeronthecorner@lemmy.world
          8·
          1 year ago

          Good stuff and thank you, I’ll definitely give this a watch.

          I was in my late teens and early 20s when Brand was selling my age group a bohemian lifestyle. I’m not the type to idolize, but a lot of what he said did resonate with me in a “Mom: we have Bill Hicks at home” sort of way.

          I remember Charlie Brooker criticizing him for prancing around the student loan protests in the early 2010s and started to lose respect for him from there on.

          It’s been difficult to watch his gradual (and recently, expedient) decline since those early days, as he’s a genuinely witty and charismatic person who has frequently said quite touching and soul-bearing things. All of that said, none of this news surprises me, in fact, it felt inevitable.

    • detalferous@lemm.ee
      62·
      1 year ago

      He’s bipolar and has legit mental illness; the same as Musk. Both of them would do less harm to society if they were on effective meds.

  • rab@lemmy.ca
    314·
    1 year ago

    One of those actors that I always had a feeling was a creep

  • SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world
    191·
    1 year ago

    I love how he’s claiming that he’s being silenced yet he hasn’t said anything worth listening to since he’s because a rich elite himself.

    • tomatopathe@sh.itjust.works
      81·
      1 year ago

      Who the fuck is silencing him? He was on all the UK shows a few years ago and eventually it was tanking the ratings.

      Nobody is stopping him from saying whatever he wants. I just don’t care about his weird ramblings. If he’s on TV I am not watching.

      Not being given a soapbox does not equate to being silenced.

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldM
      12·
      1 year ago

      You’d be surprised how many people care about things like sexual assault victims or simply celeb gossip. Either category, there’s lots of people who care.