One of Russell Brand’s former co-hosts has delivered a three-word verdict on his rape conviction as police in the UK announce they are investigating allegations made by two more women.

Comedian Katherine Ryan, who worked alongside Brand on the 2018 TV show, Roast Battle, where she called him out over his behaviour, said she felt ‘dysregulated’, ’emotional’ and ‘in awe’ of the survivors who came forward.

Ryan, who made the comments during the latest episode of her podcast Telling Everybody Everything, said his victims “came forward, despite Russell Brand having fame, power, money and a legion of fans ready to attack them”.

Reflecting on Brand’s conviction, the comedian said there is “grief alongside relief”.

Brand, 51, was found guilty on Friday of four historic sex offences against four different women, including one count of rape, which occurred in his London home in 2009, and three counts of sexual assault.

One of the incidents occurred in a bar in London’s Soho in 2004. He was also found to have kissed and groped a radio employee in 2005, and assaulted a woman while working on a 2009 TV project.

He was acquitted on two additional charges of rape and one count of attempted indecent assault following the four-week trial.

Brand was immediately remanded in custody after the judge rejected a bail application. He will return to Southwark Crown Court for sentencing on November 9 and faces up to life in prison for the rape alone.

Ryan said on the podcast that since his conviction, she and other women she knew had been privately processing the verdict, which she said had brought a sense of justice and renewed grief for those affected.

“I will never be someone who dances on graves [but] there has been some justice done today,” she said. “There’s a level of relief, but there’s grief alongside relief.”

Ryan first spoke out publicly about Brand back in 2018 while filming Comedy Central’s Roast Battle in the UK. At the time, she confronted him directly on camera and in front of audience members and crew, calling him a predator in response to what she later said was an open secret in the industry about his behaviour.

Her comments were later edited out of the show.

However, in interviews since then, she has spoken about confronting an unnamed co-star and calling him a predator to his face.

Ryan’s comments come as police in the UK revealed Brand was now being investigated over rape allegations made by two other women, while detectives who led the investigation said they believed more women would come forward.

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley told BBC Breakfast on Friday police were investigating two new cases and added, “I clearly wouldn’t be surprised if many more came forward”. 

Meanwhile, Detective Superintendent Andy Furphy said he hoped other women would gain the ‘courage’ and ‘confidence’ from the guilty verdicts to contact police.

“I think it’s likely, potentially, that other women will come forward,” he said.

“They’ll probably gain some courage and some confidence from what’s happened in the courtroom over the last few weeks.”

He credited the women who had come forward for their bravery during what had been a “deeply uncomfortable” process.

“They are courageous, determined women and our focus has always been on them, not Russell Brand,” he said.

Police began working on the case in 2023 after media reports first emerged from four women who accused Brand of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse. 

Detective Superintendent Furphy said more women came forward once the allegations became public, with police setting up a taskforce to deal with the 340 witness statements.

Some of the allegations dated back 27 years.

He was finally charged in April 2025 before being charged with further offences in July of that year.

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