Russell Brand He went to his podcast to talk about the end of his marriage to the singer Katy Perryjust one day before it was known that he had been accused of rape and sexual aggression.
“What I can tell you is that when I was married to Katy Perry, she is not entirely normal because she is an extraordinary, huge star, but she is not rare or eccentric,” said Brand, 49, during her podcast “Stay Free With Russell Brand” on Thursday, April 3. “And I was not involved in anything illicit, as far as I knew.”
“The reasons why a marriage did not work are the normal human reasons why marriages do not work, and I have nothing more than respect for it,” he added.
Brand and Perry, 40, married in 2010 before he requested divorce at the end of 2011, citing irreconcilable differences. Brand then married Laura Gallacher In 2017, while Perry is now committed to Orlando Bloom.
“Obviously I do not agree with the political opinions of (Perry),” Brand continued. “But I probably do not agree with some of my wife’s political opinions, my beloved wife, Laura Brand’s political opinions. So, you know, you are always disagreeing with people, right?”
Brand’s comments occurred shortly before the British police accused him of sexual violation and aggression after an 18 -month investigation. Crown Prosecution Service confirmed Us Weekly which was accused after the claims of four different women between 1999 and 2005.
Katy Perry and Russell Brand.
Michael Buckner/Wireimage“Today we have authorized the Metropolitan Police to accuse Russell Brand of a series of sexual crimes,” said a CPS spokesman in a statement, Jaswant Narkal. “We carefully review the evidence after a police investigation into the complaints made after the issuance of a Channel 4 documentary in September 2023. We have concluded that Russell Brand must be accused of crimes that include rape, sexual aggression and indecent aggression.”
Narwal continued, “Crown Prosecution Service reminds everyone that criminal procedures are active and the defendant has the right to a fair trial. It is extremely important that there are no reports, comments or shared online information that may somehow harm these procedures.”
“Crown Prosecution Service reminds everyone that criminal procedures are active and the defendant has the right to a fair trial,” the statement concluded. “It is extremely important that there are no reports, comments or online information that can somehow harm these procedures.”
Brand previously denied the accusations of undue sexual behavior, anticipating the issuance of a documentary of Channel 4 in 2023 with a passionate statement. (Us Weekly He also communicated on Friday to get more comments).
“I have received two extremely disturbing cards, or a letter and an email, one of a traditional media television company (and) one of a newspaper, listing a list of extremely atrocious and aggressive attacks,” he said in a video of September 2023 published through X. “Just as some quite stupid things, such as my community festival should be canceled, which should not be able to attack the narratives of the traditional media In this channel, but among this list of amazing, rather baroque attacks, there are some very serious accusations that refute absolutely. ”
“As I have written extensively in my books, I was very promiscuous. Now, during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely, always agreed,” he continued. “I was always transparent about that then – almost too transparent. And I am being transparent about that now too. And see that transparency becomes something criminal that I absolutely deny me to question if there is another agenda at stake.”
He is scheduled to appear at an hearing at the Westminster Magistrates on Friday, May 2.
