Russell Brand is now facing rape and sexual assault charges for 4 separate alleged incidents, dating as far back as 1999.
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00:00Russell Brand
00:01Now woke up this morning to some really alarming charges out of London
00:07for
00:08Separate incidents that he has now been charged
00:11With rape by authorities over there, and they say that these alleged incidents date back to
00:191999 between 1999 and 2005
00:22And if some of this sounds familiar, it's because a couple years ago remember
00:26He was accused by a couple of women who came forward and said that he had to sexually assaulted them
00:32Those were lawsuits those there were never criminal charges that were filed before
00:36This is the first time and he is now going to be facing this
00:40In May in London and he admits that he was a very very different man back then
00:48But said in a post that he posted to social media. I'm not a rapist
00:52We're very fortunate in a way to live in a time where there's so little trust in the British government
00:57We're very fortunate
00:58I suppose that this is happening at a time where we know that the law has become a kind of weapon
01:04to be used against people
01:06institutions and sometimes entire nations that will not accept and
01:11Tolerate levels of corruption that are unprecedented
01:13But when I was young and single before I had my wife and family were just that shot over there my beautiful children
01:19I was a fool man. I was a fool before I lived in the light of the Lord
01:24I was a drug addict a sex addict and an imbecile, but why never was was a rapist
01:30I've never engaged in non-consensual activity
01:33I pray that you can see that by looking in my eyes and of course
01:36I'm now gonna have the opportunity to defend these charges in court, and I'm incredibly grateful for that. He seems
01:43The most laid-back. Yeah
01:46Literally on vacation
01:48Vacation in Florida with his family. We got I got some photos of them at the resort
01:52So clearly he doesn't seem very concerned about it. But I mean, he's pretty he's been pretty I guess
01:58Strong as far as defending all these allegations that have came out against him
02:02He you know, there was that I believe an actress or someone on the set of the Arthur film also sued him
02:08So that was a separate lawsuit that I believe is still going on
02:11But he's kind of standed by the fact that this is all not, you know, he basically was saying yes
02:16I was a drug addict and a partier and stuff, but I never sexually assault. He seems to be
02:22Saying that yeah, I did some wild things and maybe that's what these accusers are referring to
02:29But he wants to make it clear. Yeah, I was doing sounds like saying yeah, I did wild things
02:34I partied but there was never anything but consensual sex
02:38It is interesting that this investigation because those lawsuits you're right Devin were ongoing
02:44But we hadn't heard anything about criminal charges, but clearly authorities may be
02:50Alerted to this because of those accusations had launched their own investigation
02:54Which has now resulted in these four criminal charges and the question is if he was drunk or high
03:00Maybe his judgment was impaired and maybe he didn't realize that it was non consensual
03:05Maybe he thought we could hear a prosecutor saying but but the the women did not agree to that and he didn't even know that
03:12Totally, and I think he's also obviously a very eccentric guy and he his sense of humor is kind of off and crazy
03:19So like you see him throughout the years and you see this like character
03:23He plays or and the jokes he make and with or he's made and you basically look back on it
03:28And when these allegations come out, you're kind of like well, was he joking?
03:31Was he not joking because clips are starting to surface of these different things. He said in interviews that that looked terrible looking back
03:38Yes, yeah, they're not they did not age. Well as the saying goes, but
03:43Again, we should to be the fact that they have brought these four criminal charges against him clearly
03:49They they must feel they have some evidence. This is not just
03:54accusations being made by someone that he used to work with or
03:58co-stars this is
04:00You know the London police saying
04:03We have evidence and we're gonna you know, and he's obviously a very different guy than he used to be back then, too
04:09We know he's very religious now and he's somebody who's very critical of the government often talks about what some
04:16Interpret as conspiracy theories. He thinks it's truth, but he's been very outspoken and that's one of the things he went to was criticizing
04:24the government
04:27I'm located in New York City, and this is very much a tragic story
04:31But I do know that what's done in the dark will come to light
04:34Yeah
04:35I mean, you know what I gotta say that there are a lot of things about this when you read all the the old
04:40allegations and now these charges that feels very much like Diddy and that there were
04:46accusations made in lawsuit or lawsuits and
04:50That that sometimes prompts sure the you know, the government to say what's going on with this person
04:56They look into it and you end up with a criminal criminal case
05:00so we will see May 2nd is when he has to be in London to face the charges and
05:08We will see what happens because he's telling a much different story, yeah