Popular English actor and comedian Russell Brand has been accused of sexual assault in a Sunday Times article, a UK newspaper. The article alleged that Brand has assaulted and possibly raped four different women.
The unnamed women came up to the press to tell their story and alleged that Russell Brand Was sexually abusive to them. One of those women said that when she was in a relationship with Brand, a popular TV presenter at the time, she had suffered from his abuse, and when she was just 16, brand. Allegedly had BBC cars come to collect her at school to meet with him.
In the same condemning, Sunday Times article, the publishers said that there have been more women with the same situation, coming up and telling their stories to the paper. Now this is a very serious allegation against Russell Brand, who is a very famous presenter for BBC, and Channel 4.
of course, the English actor is being scrutinized for these allegations against him. The BBC issued a statement saying that they are urgently investigating this alleged misconduct, especially because it mentions the misuse of company property. The metropolitan police have also issued a statement to encourage any other potential victims of Russell Brand to help with the joint media investigation of these rape charges.
Meanwhile, Brand is not keeping his silence amidst the accusations. he posted a video statement on YouTube, saying, “ I’ve received two extremely disturbing letters or a letter, and an email Dash one from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks… 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.”
friend, further added, “I don’t mind them using my books and my stand-up to talk about my promiscuous, consensual conduct in the past. What I seriously refute are these very, very serious criminal allegations.”
Right now the investigation of the sexual assault and rape allegations against Brand is still ongoing. The police together with the British media have launched a cooperative effort to get to the bottom of this issue.