Russell Brand once joked about raping a woman in an interview that since has been scrubbed from the internet.
The “Get Him to the Greek” star appeared on Richard Herring’s “Leicester Square Theatre” podcast in 2013 and described himself as a “sex narcissist” who became a “pretty comprehensive show-off.”
“Oh, I’ve raped someone once,” he told the audience (per the Daily Mail), adding, “and killed her after.”
Brand also joked in the same interview about the ancient Greeks having sex with children while developing math.
“They didn’t mind it, did they? They were clever, weren’t they?” he said before beginning to mimic having sex.
“I’ve done another triangle. I’m f–king a little kid. This is great. F–k the kid with the triangle,” he said. “No, that’s too much.”
The video podcast was removed from Herring’s public platforms after the Sunday Times published a bombshell exposé accusing the comedian, 48, of raping and sexually assaulting multiple women between 2006 and 2013.
Brand vehemently denied the allegations Saturday before the report even came out.
“Amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks, are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute,” he said in a video message before defending his past.
“When I was in the movies, and as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous,” the “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” actor continued.
“During that time of promiscuity, the relationships that I had were absolutely always consensual.”
The “Recovery: Freedom From Our Addictions” author also expressed regret over his level of transparency but suggested that his candor has been “metastasized into something criminal.”
“It feels to me like there is a serious and concerted agenda to control these kinds of spaces and these kinds of voices,” he said.
One victim claimed Brand had raped her “against a wall” in his home and that she went to a rape center the next day and provided medical records purporting to prove the incident.
A second victim alleged she and the comic were in an “emotionally abusive and controlling” relationship when she was just 16 years old and he was 31.
Brand’s ex-wife, Katy Perry, hasn’t acknowledged the new allegations against him, but she hinted about his “truth” following their 2012 divorce.
“I felt a lot of responsibility for it ending, but then I found out the real truth, which I can’t necessarily disclose because I keep it locked in my safe for a rainy day,” the pop star told Vogue in 2013.
“I let go, and I was like, ‘This isn’t because of me; this is beyond me.’ So I have moved on from that.”
Brand has been married to blogger Laura Gallacher since 2017, and they have two daughters.
