Russell Brand is declining what he says are “very serious criminal” allegations made against him connected to past “promiscuous” behavior.
In a new video shared on Friday, on his social media, Brand said he “absolutely refutes” the allegations and defined them as “extremely egregious and aggressive attacks.”
He started his video by saying, “I’ve received two extremely disturbing letters, or a letter and an email, one from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper, listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks. But amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks, are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.”
Although Brand did not provide details of the TV company or newspaper, his video appears ahead of a new special investigation episode of U.K. recent affairs show Dispatches airing Saturday night.
In the lead-up to the show airing, multiple U.K. outlets including The Evening Standard have reported that Channel 4 presenter Krishnan Guru-Murthy had flared assumptions about the content of the Saturday show after a since-deleted post on X, formerly known as Twitter, he wrote, “Something’s up,” and posted a screenshot of the show.
As the video continued, Brand then discoursed the timeframe of the allegations and urged that all connections he had during a period of self-described “promiscuity” were “consensual.”
The actor then went on to discuss that he regarded his “voice” as not approved of by mainstream media and assumed that there was an agenda to handle his voice.
