Russell Brand told police his “very promiscuous” celebrity lifestyle of kissing fans and sleeping with women has now been “reframed” into rape and sexual assault claims.<\/p>\n
Mr Brand, now 51, was quizzed by police four times between November 2023 and July 2025, and each time insisted he has “never engaged in any non-consensual sexual activity”.<\/p>\n
Mr Brand, who is now on trial for raping and sexually assaulting a series of women, told detectives that sexual misconduct allegations first made in 2023 following an investigation by The Times, Sunday Times, and Channel 4 are “false”.<\/p>\n
In his statements to police, he detailed kissing hundreds of fans while out in public, having sex in toilets and abruptly ending sexual encounters with women once they had finished.<\/p>\n
“I led a very promiscuous life in the past, which I have spent years openly denouncing,” he said.<\/p>\n
He said: “On 16 September 2023, a defamatory and fictitious documentary was broadcast in conjunction with the publication of two national newspapers containing false anonymised allegations which led to unprecedented media reporting.<\/p>\n
“Subsequently, both the media and the police publicly invited additional allegations to be made, which resulted in further encounters being invented or reimagined.”<\/p>\n
In a police interview in December 2023, Mr Brand said he did not recall the women who had come forward to accuse him, but he said: “It is entirely possible that I may have encountered them and that we may have engaged in consensual sexual activity or physical contact that has since been reimagined.”<\/p>\n
He added that he engaged in “friendly, consensual and warm” interactions with fans when there was “often physical contact”.<\/p>\n
Mr Brand said: “At live shows, press events, junkets and book signings I did my best to be accessible, non-discriminatory and loving.<\/p>\n
“I spent a lot of time at these events.<\/p>\n
“I have shared kisses with hundreds of members of the public during press events and photos of many such kisses, in front of hundreds of people, are available online.<\/p>\n
“Everything I did in public once I was famous could be photographed or recorded and end up in the tabloids – I was aware of this.”<\/p>\n
He said he had “routinely made provocative jokes or comments both with members of the public and during live performances and broadcasts”.<\/p>\n
He added: “I did on occasion find reasons for leaving, or for asking partners in casual sexual encounters to leave, shortly after the experience had concluded.<\/p>\n
“I had sexual encounters in countless locations and scenarios often with people I had just met.<\/p>\n
“The way of life that I have described, the magnitude of the promiscuity, deceptively rendered in recent media attacks, accompanied by advertisements for complainants, have caused consensual encounters to be unfavourably reframed decades later.”<\/p>\n
Addressing one allegation, that he had sexually assaulted and raped an MTV worker during a party at a Soho bar, Mr Brand said it is “likely” he was at the event.<\/p>\n
But he added: “At no point would I have touched (her) breasts unless it was consensual.<\/p>\n
“I have had consensual sex in toilet cubicles during parties.<\/p>\n
“I have never forced anyone into a toilet and I have never forced my penis into anyone\u2019s mouth.<\/p>\n
“As I stated at the outset, I have never engaged in any non-consensual sexual activity.”<\/p>\n
‘Attempted indecent assault’<\/p>\n
Mr Brand denies all the charges he faces.<\/p>\n
He is accused of three counts of rape and three counts of sexual assault, and today an allegation of indecent assault was changed to a charge of attempted indecent assault.<\/p>\n
The trial has heard from six women who say they were the victims of sexual misconduct from Mr Brand between 1999 and 2009.<\/p>\n
Prior to his rise to fame, Mr Brand is accused of raping a woman he met at the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth in 1999.<\/p>\n
She says he stripped off his clothes, “pranced” around her hotel room, and then pinned her to the bed and raped her.<\/p>\n
An MTV worker says Mr Brand tried to drag her into a toilet at work when he was one of the channel\u2019s presenters, but she said she managed to wrench herself away.<\/p>\n
Mr Brand is accused of groping another MTV worker\u2019s breasts in a Soho bar, then forcing the woman into oral sex after dragging her to a toilet.<\/p>\n
He is accused of kissing and groping a radio worker in 2005 in front of members of his entourage and sexually assaulting a Channel 4 staffer in 2009 by thrusting his head into her lap when she had been forced to give him a massage.<\/p>\n
Mr Brand is accused of raping a 21-year-old fan in 2009 after meeting her at one of his Hammersmith Apollo stand-up performances.<\/p>\n
He has pleaded not guilty to all charges.<\/p>\n
His barrister Ian Winter KC has told the court the former TV personality denies any non-consensual sex and argues some of the encounters with the women have been “reimagined” since he was first accused of sexual misconduct in 2023.<\/p>\n
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