A years-long investigation by a trio of information organisations makes a large number of critical claims in opposition to Russell Brand, the longtime comic and TV presenter who has starred in movies like Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Get Him To The Greek. However as he gained notoriety, an alleged sample of sexual assault and coercion emerged, per a report printed immediately in The Occasions. 4 girls, together with one who was 16 on the time of the alleged occasions, say Brand sexually assaulted them in interactions that occurred between 2006 and 2013, whereas quite a few others make claims of harassment, predatory behaviour, and abuse.

Since his interval of Hollywood stardom a couple of decade in the past, Brand has reinvented himself as a political pundit and writer and once more as a vaccine-skeptic social media star with a conservative fan base. He took to X (previously Twitter) on Friday with a video seemingly meant as a response to the investigation from The Occasions, The Sunday Occasions, and Channel 4 Dispatches.

Within the video he claimed that two “mainstream media” publications with a “critical and concerted agenda” have been planning to launch an investigation about his consensual relationships, however that the story had “metastasised into one thing felony.” He additionally accused the mainstream media of a co-ordinated assault and stated that there are witnesses whose proof straight contradicts the narratives. Self-importance Honest reached out to Brand’s representatives for remark following his put up to X, however has not acquired a response as of publication time.

“The relationships that I had have been completely at all times consensual,” Brand says within the video. “I used to be at all times clear about that then, virtually too clear. And I’m being clear about it now .. I don’t thoughts them utilizing my books and my stand-up to speak about my promiscuous consensual conduct previously. What I severely refute are these very, very critical felony allegations.”