Quotes
I was a fool before I lived in the light of the lord,
Russell Brand, whose youngest child is barely a year old, now faces life in prison,
When I was young and single before I had my wife and family … my beautiful children, I was a fool, man,
Brand said in a video statement shortly after the charges were announced We have received a letter of complaint from Mr Sachs' agent and would like to sincerely apologise to Mr Sachs for the offence caused. We recognise that some of the content broadcast was unacceptable and offensive. We are reviewing how this came about and are responding to Mr Sachs personally. We also apologise to listeners for any offence caused."
The Beeb said in a statement He f***ed your granddaughter".
In one voice message, Ross said Oh no, I have revealed I know her name."
Brand then denied this, adding I would like to take this opportunity to issue a personal Russell Brand apology to Andrew Sachs, the great comic actor who played Manuel, for a message Jonathan and I left on his answerphone, but it was quite funny. But sometimes you mustn't swear on someone's answerphone, and that is why I would like to apologise personally."
Of course, I deny any allegations of the kind that have been advanced,
I'm aware that I put myself in an extremely vulnerable position by being very, very promiscuous, [but] that is not the type of conduct I endorse, and it's certainly not how I would live now,
Brand told Tucker Carlson in an interview published on YouTube in January last year We have concluded that Russell Brand should be charged with offenses including rape, sexual assault and indecent assault. These relate to reported non-recent offences between 1999 and 2005, involving four women,
We carefully reviewed the evidence after a police investigation into allegations made following the broadcast of a Channel 4, Sunday Times and Times investigation in September 2023,
prosecutors said in April He pushed her onto the bed, pulled down her trousers and knickers and he raped her
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,
he said in another video on X posted in September 2023 The relationships I had were very absolutely, always consensual,
he added, before suggesting that the mainstream media And as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous,
No one is above the law, Russell Brand!”
As police tried to control the scrum, a man shouted Russell is a funny bloke and a talented man, ... but I think he sets a bad example. To succeed, you shouldn't have to disembowel yourself for public consumption.”
The main problem now is that people get the politicians they deserve, because they don’t take any interest in politics,
If his book is called Revolution, then he shouldn’t be out there trying to sell it—he should be encouraging people to steal it.”
Lock also mocked Brand’s then-recent book Revolution, quipping Probably the reason I hate him so much is because I'm a dad,