Russell Brand has published a video on YouTube in which he denies "very serious criminal allegations" against him.
The comedian shared the clip ahead of the claims which are due to be shared in a documentary today (16 September) and in a newspaper.
In a video titled "So, This Is Happening," Mr Brand described the allegations as a "coordinated attack" and said that they “pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when... I was very, very promiscuous.”
Mr Brand added that there were witnesses who could “directly contradict” the claims being made against him.
If you have information in relation to the allegations against Russell Brand which you would like to share with The Independent’s reporting team, please email news@independent.co.uk
The comedian shared the clip ahead of the claims which are due to be shared in a documentary today (16 September) and in a newspaper.
In a video titled "So, This Is Happening," Mr Brand described the allegations as a "coordinated attack" and said that they “pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when... I was very, very promiscuous.”
Mr Brand added that there were witnesses who could “directly contradict” the claims being made against him.
If you have information in relation to the allegations against Russell Brand which you would like to share with The Independent’s reporting team, please email news@independent.co.uk
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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.