Russell Brand Dropped by Agent After Rape and Sexual Assault Accusations
Russell Brand Dropped by Agent After Rape and Sexual Assault Accusations
Women’s charity that the actor-comedian raised funds for also cuts ties: “We are deeply saddened and upset by the stories”
There was previously discussion about Russell Brand denying allegations that were to be shown in a TV documentary, and now things are developing.
this guy is such a fucking cunt I literally felt like curb stomping him when I watched some of his videos regarding covid and the invasion of Ukraine, he is just so fucking stupid and he has no idea, same as Joe Rogan, well maybe even worse, more on the level of Peterson.
blamed the invasion of Ukraine on the West, because5if Ukraine opened it's market to foreign investment so of course Russia had to invade, what an absolute wanker.
Look up "the wellness to fascism pipeline". Brand is the poster child of someone who had very left leaning politics, became interested in self help and natural living, fell down the anti-vax rabbit hole, and is now a conservative grifter. He realized that he wasn't getting more popular over time doing comedy, so he gravitated towards being a misinformation node.
Apparently, Brand has been running from this shit for a long time, and jumped on the Fascist conspiracy grift train because no reputable movie or TV studio will hire him.
This is the first I'm hearing about it, but doesn't surprise me at all. If I made a list of famous people who seem like sex offenders Russel would very close to the top.
Slavoj Žižek for me.
elon musk, alex jones and andrew tate are vouching for him. So he is probably guilty. If piers morgan vouches for him he is definitely guilty.
But have Ashton and Mila written private letters to the judge yet?
This guy always annoyed me, if he's "censored" because of his bad behavior, I doubt many sane people will miss him. I remember seeing him on Maher (yeah, yeah, I know) not too long ago and he was just insufferable - even more so than usual. If he went down the "just asking questions" rabbit hole, that's little surprise.
And - unfortunately, I know a lot of people like this IRL - people that started off maybe a bit wacky, but at least on the surface, lefties, only to end up voting for donnie, and going full maga, with the gear and everything. And believe me - NO ONE wants to talk to them about anything past basic weather comments; the minute they start up with the ItWasAPlandemicChineseGlobalWarmingHoaxHunterBidensLaptop stuff, people are crawling over each other to get to the exits.
I feel like theres a "clever spiral" where witty and observant people become addicted to the praise and attention they get from seeing through the bullshit and pointing out overlooked thruthisms.
The trouble is, clever isn't the same as informed. It takes effort to be informed, to be educated, and it's pretty easy to spot flaws in other people's logic. It's subtly tempting to slide from "I think we should rethink the way we treat each other," to "Maybe there is a government conspiracy to inject mind control via vaccines."
Because the world is fucked up, and the vast majority of people take too much for granted. They live unexamined lives, and a person can come along and hold up a mirror for laugh and profit. Eventually, though, the observant ones run out of low hanging fruit, and if they want to stay relevant, they either need to put in some effort or start making shit up.
Oh my god, I remember the Maher bit, you could tell Bill was getting pissed off about this guy coming on and spewing conspiracy theories. Actively rooting against Brand ever since! I believe all these allegations are probably true, as Brand seems to have a very tenuous relationship with reality.
I really liked him. Get him to the Greek is one of my favorite movies.
Innocent until proven guilty, so I'm going to hold off on judgement ( not that my judgement matters). There seems to be A LOT working against him here. He's not cancelling tours and losing his agent if people thought this was unfair - sometimes up.
There's a lot of rape apologists in this thread though. As much as he's innocent before proven guilty, so is his accuser. "All it takes is an accusation to ruin a perfectly good career". Y'all should be ashamed. That doesn't happen without MAJOR consequences for a false accusation, as well as consequences for any media outlet that ruins the story without due diligence. It's extremely hard to prove rape cases, meaning that if it's gotten this far, there's enough evidence to put it into print. This is global news, and NOBODY has come out with any compelling story as to why the accuser is lying.
Bottom line, none of us really understand what actually happened, and everyone seems too eager to write off Brand or his accuser. Chill out. More info will come.
I'm not a real fan of his. He seems like a pretentious twat to me. I agree though, at this point it's allegations so could be totally false. It is shit though that things like this can tarnish someone's name when they turn out to be not guilty.
Reminds me of the "Stereophonics - A Thousand Trees" song
And you still can! Only now you can see Brand, errr, Snow as the narcissistic womanizing asshole that he is!
Damnit, I love Forgetting Sarah Marshall.
Get Him To The Greek is amazing, but I'm sure it'll raise some eyebrows to watch these days lol
Well, on another site i saw a gif/video of Brand defending himself. To sum up, he said he has been very open about his past promiscuity many times in the past, all encounters were consensual, has witnesses contradicting the accusations, it's a very directed agenda by specific media towards discrediting him and to stay tuned for how it turns out.
He didn't have witnesses contradicting the stories of him using force on the women.
How do you know? Was he already on trial and failed to provide such witnesses?
I was an enormous fan of Russell Brand growing up. The first podcast I listened to was recordings of his radio show. What a fucking shithead he's become.