Russell Brand disputes rape and abuse allegations ahead of British news probe

Australian Community Media

Russell Brand has sought to pre-empt allegations published by Channel 4 and The Sunday Times about his alleged sexual misconduct by releasing a video accusing the media of a “coordinated attack”.

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00:00 Hello there you awakening wonders.

00:01 Now this isn't the usual type of video we make

00:03 on this channel where we critique, attack

00:05 and undermine the news in all its corruption

00:08 because in this story, I am the news.

00:10 I've received two extremely disturbing letters

00:13 or a letter and an email,

00:15 one from a mainstream media TV company,

00:18 one from a newspaper listing a litany

00:21 of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks

00:24 as well as some pretty stupid stuff

00:26 like my community festival should be stopped,

00:28 that I shouldn't be able to attack mainstream media

00:31 narratives on this channel.

00:33 But amidst this litany of astonishing rather baroque attacks

00:37 are some very serious allegations

00:40 that I absolutely refute.

00:43 These allegations pertain to the time

00:45 when I was working in the mainstream,

00:46 when I was in the newspapers all the time,

00:47 when I was in the movies

00:48 and as I've written about extensively in my books,

00:51 I was very, very promiscuous.

00:53 Now during that time of promiscuity,

00:55 the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual.

00:58 I was always transparent about that then,

01:00 almost too transparent

01:01 and I'm being transparent about it now as well.

01:04 And to see that transparency metastasized

01:07 into something criminal that I absolutely deny

01:10 makes me question, is there another agenda at play?

01:14 Particularly when we've seen

01:15 coordinated media attacks before,

01:17 like with Joe Rogan when he dared to take a medicine

01:21 that the mainstream media didn't approve of

01:22 and we saw a spate of headlines

01:24 from media outlets across the world using the same language.

01:28 I'm aware that you guys have been saying

01:30 in the comments for a while,

01:30 "Watch out Russell, they're coming for you,

01:32 "you're getting too close to the truth,

01:33 "Russell Brand did not kill himself."

01:35 I know that a year ago there was a spate of articles,

01:37 "Russell Brand's a conspiracy theorist,

01:39 "Russell Brand's right wing."

01:40 I'm aware of news media making phone calls,

01:43 sending letters to people I know for ages and ages.

01:45 It's been clear to me, or at least it feels to me,

01:49 like there's a serious and concerted agenda

01:51 to control these kind of spaces and these kind of voices,

01:54 and I mean my voice along with your voice.

01:57 I don't mind them using my books and my stand up

01:59 to talk about my promiscuous consensual conduct in the past.

02:03 What I seriously refute are these very,

02:05 very serious criminal allegations.

02:08 Also, it's worth mentioning that there are witnesses

02:11 whose evidence directly contradicts the narratives

02:14 that these two mainstream media outlets

02:16 are trying to construct,

02:18 apparently in what seems to me to be a coordinated attack.

02:22 Now, I don't wanna get into this any further

02:25 because of the serious nature of the allegations,

02:28 but I feel like I'm being attacked,

02:29 and plainly they are working very closely together.

02:33 We are obviously gonna look into this matter

02:35 'cause it's very, very serious.

02:37 In the meantime, I want you to stay close, stay awake,

02:41 but more important than any of that,

02:42 if you can, please stay free.

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