Russell Brand ‘tells Wembley audience there are things he can’t discuss’ after rape and sexual assault allegations-Sabrina Barr-Entertainment – Metro

The comedian was pictured arriving at his gig following the allegations (Picture: James Curley and MagicMomentsUK/PA)

Russell Brand is said to have informed his audience at a gig at Wembley that there were things that he couldn’t discuss after allegations were made against him or rape, sexual assault and coercive behaviour.

Earlier this week, the comedian shared a video on X (formerly Twitter) declaring that he denied ‘very serious allegations’, as he warned that stories were set to come out about him with accusations that he ‘absolutely refutes’.

A programme was later released on Channel 4 titled Russell Brand: In Plain Sight: Dispatches, following an investigation conducted by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 dispatches, with the Times article including allegations from four women.

The four alleged victims claimed that they were abused by Brand, 48, between the years of 2006 to 2013. He denies all the allegations.

On Saturday night, the Forgetting Sarah Marshall actor performed a comedy set to thousands of people at the Troubadour Wembley Park theatre in north-west London.

At the show, which was reportedly supposed to begin at 7pm but didn’t commence until after 8pm, Brand appeared to address the allegations that had been made against him.

Brand denies the allegations (Picture: Roger Askew/Oxford Union/Rex/Shutterstock)

Audience members told the PA news agency Brand expressed his love for his audience and told them that he hoped that they ‘appreciate’ that there were certain things that he could not talk about during the performance.

A video reportedly showed Brand receiving cheers before his set, while fans who turned up without valid tickets were said to have begged staff at the venue to let them in.

In the piece published by The Times detailing the accusations made against the comic, one woman claimed that he assaulted when she was 16 and still at school, while he was 31.

She alleged that he ‘forced his penis down her throat’, and she had to punch him in the stomach to make him stop.

Another woman claimed that Brand raped her against a wall in his Los Angeles home, with alleged text messages reportedly showing later telling him: ‘When a girl say[s] NO it means no,’ with the comedian reportedly replying to say he was ‘very sorry’.

According to The Times article, a third woman claimed that Brand threatened to take legal action against her if she told anyone about him allegedly sexually assaulting her while she worked with him in Los Angeles.

The performer released a video stating that his relationships ‘were absolutely always consensual’ (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Rex/Shutterstock)

On Friday night, Brand posted a video on social media explaining that he had been approached by a mainstream TV network and a mainstream newspaper with ‘extremely disturbing’ correspondence listing ‘a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks’.

He outlined that there were ‘some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute’.

Brand said: ‘These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies.

‘As I’ve written about extensively in my book, I was very, very promiscuous. Now during that time of promiscuity, the relationships that I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then, almost too transparent, and I’m being transparent about it now as well.

‘And to see that transparency metastasise into something criminal that I absolutely deny makes me question is there another agenda at play.’

Raising what he described as ‘coordinated media attacks’ against certain people in the public eye in the past, Brand went on to claim that media outlets had been trying to contact people he knows ‘for ages and ages,’ but ‘what I seriously refute are these very, very serious criminal allegations.’

He claimed that he had ‘witnesses whose evidence directly contradicts the narratives that these two mainstream media outlets are trying to construct, apparently in what seems to me to be a coordinated attack’.

‘Now, I don’t want to get into this any further because of the serious nature of the allegations, but I feel like I’m being attacked and plainly they are working very closely together,’ he continued.

‘We are obviously going to look into this matter because it’s very, very serious.’

Metro.co.uk previously contacted Brand’s representatives for further comment.

Russell Brand: In Plain Sight: Dispatches is available to stream on Channel 4.

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