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Russell Brand misplaced his agent within the wake of the horrific sexual assault accusations that got here out over the weekend.
As we beforehand reported, 4 girls got here ahead to accuse the 48-yr-outdated comic of rape, sexual assault, and emotional abuse in incidents that occurred between 2006 and 2013. In The Sunday Times exposé, one of many victims – who used the pseudonym Alice – claimed she was solely 16 years outdated when a then 30-yr-outdated Russell started a 3-month relationship together with her in 2006. His administration on the time knew about their romance.
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While the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star was “very charming and very attentive” at first, she mentioned he ultimately grew to become very controlling and “emotionally and sexually abusive.” At one level within the relationship, Alice alleged he even “forced his penis down her throat,” inflicting her to choke, and wouldn’t cease till she punched him exhausting within the abdomen. Awful.
Years after their breakup, it seems Alice reached out to Russell’s expertise company Tavistock Wood’s co-founder Angharad Wood in 2020 and shared her horrific expertise with the actor. The sufferer instructed them she solely wished an apology. But as an alternative, Alice received an “aggressive” message from an lawyer representing Russell insinuating that she wished cash. So they had been conscious of those critical allegations for 3 years and did nothing?! They simply took his phrase for it? What the f**ok.
It was not till this week that the company determined to drop him after studying about all the accusations from The Sunday Times. As for why the corporate took motion now? Tavistock Wood instructed Deadline in a press release they had been “horribly misled” by Russell:
“Russell Brand categorically and vehemently denied the allegation made in 2020, but we now believe we were horribly misled by him. TW has terminated all professional ties to Brand.”
Wow…
Russell has denied the allegations. He preemptively fired again in a video posted on social media, insisting that this relationships had been “always consensual”:
“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. I was always transparent about that then — almost too transparent.”
Despite his makes an attempt to get forward of this scandal, Russell clearly is going through the implications — in the case of his profession and within the courtroom of public opinion. Thoughts, Perezcious readers? Sound OFF within the feedback beneath.
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