by It has been more than 15 years since Matt* Russell Brand looked at the Peterborough Broadway Theater on March 25, 2007, but he can still remember how uncomfortable he felt at the sight of brands who waved from the audience over a few women to walk behind the stage after the show. “It was like something he had obviously done before,” says Matt.
It was worrying at the time and now it is even more worrying. The British comedian was accused of four separate women from different crimes, including sexual assault, manipulation and rape, in incidents that took place between 2006 and 2013. Another suspected victim has also reported to the MET police with a story about sexual attacks that goes back until 2003. Fire denies all accusations.
When Brand waved these spectators about these spectators in 2007, it followed a sketch that used to involve them in the show. Brand’s ran “Bit” during his tours often included a strike -phone call: In this case, a person brought it to the stage and asked them to ring a friend who was not present and then to get them to Cajole to make this friend join them in the theater. “I think the jumping point was that they were both female and I think that was part of the crime” [Brand] continued with the show. “
Matt remembers well because he knew the woman who went behind the stage with the brand, but not good enough to ever ask her what happened afterwards. The use of his shows by the fire as a breeding ground for his sexual conquests was, according to five other sources, the witnesses of brands, had similar behavior on his shows. It was even reported by the sun in 2007 in the same year a source The newspaper: “At the end of his live set, the two girls had called Russell and asked to go behind the stage. Both went and met him and he said some very slippery things.
“One ran back immediately – I’m not sure what she shocked. But the other stayed in there.”
Also present was present at a gig 2007, Helen*, who was seen on March 26, 2007 in Wolverhampton Civic Hall in Wolverhamptone Civic Hall, was one day after Matt torn these two women into his changing room. Helen, who is now 31 years old, said to The Evening Standard: “At the beginning of the set, he announced:” If you want to shake me, form a decent queue at the door door “and he kept referring to this” joke “. It didn’t feel like a joke.
“When he said it, he let the kind of exaggerated emphatic” booky “expressive style he had at that time, and went very quietly and confidently and stared into the crowd. And after he had said there was a break [from Brand] Where he just grinned. Then he immediately returned to his typical dancing. “
This was confirmed by a colleague in the same appearance, the 46-year-old Stu from Halesowen, who visited himself separately, but reminds exactly the same behavior. “He joked that they should ‘ignore their dignity and entertain with a member of his employee who would be on stage,” recalls Stu. “It was said as a joke, but it was not. I always asked myself whether someone was faced.”
You did it. Helen says she saw the queue when she and her friend were picked up by her friend’s father. “[It was] Young women, ”she recalls,“ I would say 17 to 25 years old. ”At that time the brand would have been 32 years old.
It may have her skin crawl now, but at that time people picked up what the brand put down: it consistently sold gigs, and his increasing popularity had already played a role in large Hollywood films until 2008. At that time, the audience held up, very little in fire that recorded open groups. Even Matt, who remembers feeling uncomfortable at the sight of brands about these women, says he rationalized it because it didn’t seem to be so strange at the time. It was Russell Brand and he was such a “boy”. Do you know? “
He later remembers that a participant named Darnell* reminds that he has a similar behavior at an event location in Stoke-on-Trent. “The second half of the show felt like he had given up the comedy,” says Darnell. “He spent [it] In the stands that work through the girl to girls. He wasn’t shy either, why he was doing it and told them before an observation audience that he wanted sex after the show. We all just had to wait until he was glad that he had a couple to choose from. “
And while the girls and women were ready to walk with the brand behind the stage in this case, his gigs were not always so “welcome” rooms for female fans. The 39 -year -old Poppy from Bristol remembers that he was watching in 2009 during his scandalous tour in Edinburgh Brand and rose to his usual tricks: “The front corridors of the seats were all screaming girls,” she says. “He started to make jokes that I suspect that they were frequently in his shows that they don’t have to worry, they all get a chance with him and start after the show.”
But then the mood of the fire changed. “There was a girl who didn’t stop screaming, and I think he got it upset. So he got her on stage and spent five minutes to humiliate her, to humiliate why she believed she would find her attractive. Poppy says that the whole experience of” disgusted “her from the brand.
Another participant who left the comedy show of the Brandcomedy show was Malcom, 39, from British Columbia, who performed fire in the River Rock Show Theater in Vancouver in 2012. At that time, fire still started the strike -phone call gimmick and decided to demand a transgender sex worker, the number of which he found on this occasion in the newspaper as his goal. “[He was] Malcom repeatedly called on the point of harassment, “recalls Malcom.
According to Malcolm, the brand was not transphobic, but extremely disparaging her position as a sex worker. Brand itself shared stories about sleeping with sex workers, including an incident When he was 16 on a family vacationAn encounter that was set up by his father. Another incident about which fire wrote in his memoirs, where he A sex worker’s phone during sex smashed against a wallrecently reappeared after the allegations.
The stroke of the fire has also brought him into difficulties: in 2008 he described a rape helpline on the stage in Northampton, which, given the flood of the latest sexual attacks in the region, turned out to be particularly outrageous. The series of sexual assault seemed to have the same perpetrator and took place in the same alley, with the perpetrator deserved the nickname “The Underpass attacker”. Brand pretended to submit the attacker’s viewing and made “jokes” like “I came to someone near my underpass”. He later apologized for the incident and said that he was “destroyed” that he “insulted vulnerable people”.
Brand spoke in detail about his sex dependency, although in 2005 he asserted his “rehabilitation” after a stay in a sexual recreational function based in Philadelphia. Just two years later, he waved women behind the stage, show for show.
In Brand’s book, which was published in November 2007, he did not look long after Helen, Matt, Darnell and Stu the sexually charged performance of brand on stage on his stay in the rehab and said that he did it, “just to close everyone. An error that had to be fixed.”
He has recently painted himself as a family man and recently sold the effects of pornography on young men. As far as the allegations are not mutually acceptable sexual acts, Brand denied all misconduct and said: “… in the middle of this litany, more amazing, rather baroque attacks are some very serious accusations that I absolutely refuted.
“These allegations relate to the time when I worked in the mainstream when I was in the newspapers all the time when I was in the cinema. And as I wrote about it in detail in my books, I was very, very promiscuitive.
“During this time of promiscuity, the relationships that I had were absolutely always mutual.”
*Names have been changed to protect anonymity.
