Russell Brand 'absolutely refutes very serious allegations'

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Russell Brand has denied ‘very serious allegations’ reportedly set to be revealed.

The comedian and actor, 48, who now hosts his own podcast Stay Free With Russell Brand, took to Twitter aka X on Friday night where he warned stories were set to come out about him which he ‘absolutely refutes.’

He said 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.’

Amid some ‘stupid stuff’ in the correspondence, including, he said, that he ‘shouldn’t be able to attack mainstream media narratives,’ 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.’

He said there had been ‘coordinated media attacks’ in the past against people like controversial podcast host Joe Rogan, and that he himself had previously been labelled a conspiracy theorist.

Brand went on to claim 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 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.

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

Brand’s video is thought to relate to a special Channel 4 Dispatches episode is set to air on Saturday night, which so far does not have any information as to what the investigation is about.

Rumours had abounded on social media as to what the 90-minute special could be about, with unconfirmed reports on a gossip site claiming it related to multiple comedians.

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