What Is Russell Brand Saying With His Rape Allegation Denial

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00:00 >> I'm telling him to get off me, and he won't get off.

00:02 >> I was pushing him away, pushing him away, and he wasn't backing off at all.

00:09 >> What I seriously refute are these very, very serious criminal allegations.

00:15 >> Brand vehemently denying all the allegations, posting a statement one day before the documentary

00:20 "Russell Brand in Plain Sight" aired Saturday on BBC's Channel 4, which included actor reenactments

00:26 from his accusers.

00:27 >> I felt like I was groomed for sex.

00:32 >> These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream.

00:35 I was very, very promiscuous.

00:36 Now, during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always

00:41 consensual.

00:42 I was always transparent about that then.

00:44 To see that transparency metastasized into something criminal that I absolutely deny

00:50 makes me question, is there another agenda at play?

00:53 >> Crisis communication expert Molly McPherson breaks down Brand's preemptive denial.

00:57 >> Russell Brand's message is a mix of denial, provocation, and framing himself away from

01:04 the allegations.

01:06 In that video statement, he did everything he could not to attach his name or his actions

01:13 with the victims.

01:15 As a distraction mechanism, he pointed the blame to the media and the industry at large.

01:21 >> I like to have it off, right?

01:24 Why not?

01:25 Yeah, that's true, the idea of sex.

01:30 >> The accusations are based on the testimony of five women and allegedly took place between

01:34 2006 and 2013.

01:38 Brand was married to Katy Perry in 2010 for 14 months.

01:41 Katy later revealed that Brand ended their marriage via text message opening up about

01:45 their split in her 2012 documentary, Part of Me.

01:48 >> That fairy tale that I had is not true for me right now.

01:52 >> Yeah, but you're still missing.

01:55 >> I'm not.

01:59 >> News of allegations against Brand, a self-proclaimed sex addict, broke shortly after actor Danny

02:04 Masterson was sentenced to 30 years in prison for two rapes that both occurred in 2003.

02:09 >> Russell Brand is likely following along what happened to him.

02:13 And knowing that Masterson received 30 years to life, Russell Brand decided to drill down

02:20 on denial.

02:22 But denial alone isn't going to cut it.

02:25 His representation dropped him after these allegations were made public.

02:29 However, it is interesting to know that they were aware of these allegations back in 2020.

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