Russell Brand Once Confessed To Repeatedly Luring His Pet Dog Up The Stairs “Before Cruelly Kicking Her Back Down To The Bottom Again,” And People Are Understandably Horrified

This nonfiction mentions allegations of intersexual battle and rape, and accounts of carnal cruelty. 

As you whitethorn know, British comic Russell Brand is presently connected proceedings successful the UK, facing 3 charges of rape, 3 of intersexual assault, and 1 of indecent battle against six women, with the allegations spanning from 1999 to 2009. Russell has pleaded not blameworthy and denied each of the charges.

Troubling allegations against Russell first came to airy successful 2023, erstwhile the British TV web Channel 4 aired an extended 90-minute occurrence of their award-winning bid Dispatches, investigating allegations of rape, intersexual assault, and affectional maltreatment against the star. Russell Brand: In Plain Sight was a collaboration betwixt Dispatches and the paper the Sunday Times, which archetypal made the accusations against Russell nationalist earlier that day.

For what it’s worth, close earlier the Dispatches peculiar aired, Russell uploaded a YouTube video called "So, This Is Happening" wherever helium denied each of the accusations earlier they were made public. In the video, helium said that helium “absolutely refutes” the “litany of astonishing alternatively baroque attacks," which helium claimed were a "coordinated attack" from the mainstream media. After admitting to being "very, precise promiscuous," Russell added: "The relationships I had were perfectly ever consensual. I was ever transparent astir that past — astir excessively transparent — and I’m being transparent astir it present arsenic well."

But the occurrence inactive led radical to reexamine a full clump of moments from Russell’s vocation arsenic a TV presenter, vigor DJ, actor, and wide nationalist figure. This included concerning anecdotes that Russell himself shared successful his 2 memoirs astir his encounters with enactment workers, arsenic good arsenic elaborate recollections of however helium would coerce reluctant women into having enactment with him.

In My Booky Wooky, which was published successful 2007, helium admits: "By my twenties I would relish the situation of chaste maids and the hunt for the close operation of words required to decode their motivation resistance." Branding this "challenge" a "nobstacle course," Russell aboriginal recalls sharing a furniture with a pistillate named Penny who was lone comfy if they slept apical and process — with her feet successful enactment with his face, and vice versa."

"I spun gags and yarns till she fto maine crook round," Russell writes. "I painted verbal pictures and begged until she kissed me. I lied and danced and evoked the tone of Pan till reluctantly she removed her bra, I utilized tears and affectional blackmail to unafraid the immolation of her knickers."

In the aforesaid book, Russell confesses to spitting successful an exotic dancer's look due to the fact that helium "felt precise strongly" that helium "needed to avenge" the information that she'd slapped him aft they'd had sex. Discussing different enactment worker, Russell describes her arsenic a "sorry, fair-weather excuse for a prostitute" and writes: "Eventually she agreed to person sex, but a benignant of weary, half-hearted, semi-erect, bored, disappointing spot of sex, for which I'd paid a batch of money."

Russell past reveals that helium smashed her telephone aft getting annoyed by however overmuch it was ringing. He calls this demolition "the worst enactment of misogyny I've committed since the spitting debacle."

In My Booky Wook 2, Russell claims that the vigor controller astatine the BBC amusement that helium worked for, Lesley Douglas, was "incredibly tolerant" of his behaviour arsenic helium suggests that helium would person enactment with the vigor show's contention winners successful the disabled toilet astatine the studio. Noting that each of the winners that came into the Radio 2 studios were women, helium writes: "This is due to the fact that determination was an further facet to the prize which could ne'er beryllium explicitly stated owed to the BBC's rigid argumentation prohibiting the misuse of the disabled lavvy."

Elsewhere successful the aforesaid memoir, Russell tells readers: "What benignant of antheral was I? Treating women successful this way? If this is what I'm telling you, tin you ideate what's being near out?"

In summation to Russell’s ain words being viewed successful a caller airy amid the allegations, quotes from aggregate different nationalist figures resurfaced. For example, successful 2006, Australian vocalist and a erstwhile justice connected the British X Factor, Dannii Minogue, called Russell a "vile predator."

Then, successful a 2012 interrogation with Australian TV writer Liz Hayes, Russell was shown grabbing and kissing her connected the lips arsenic their 60 Minutes conception came to an end. In the footage, Liz tries to stay nonrecreational but is visibly shocked by Russell's kiss; helium past uses some arms to clasp onto her and puts his manus connected her backmost portion joking astir unhooking her bra.

Russell’s ex-wife, Katy Perry’s, 2013 comments astir Russell being “very controlling” successful their matrimony were besides reexamined, with the prima cryptically adding astatine the time: “I felt a batch of work for it ending, but past I recovered retired the existent truth, which I can’t needfully disclose due to the fact that I support it locked successful my harmless for a rainy day."

And now, with Russell facing accrued attraction amid his UK trial, different concerning anecdote that helium shared successful his 2007 memoir has resurfaced to fierce backlash, with this 1 centering connected his household dog, Topsy, erstwhile helium was astir 11 years old. For reference, successful the pursuing extract, ‘Colin’ is his mom’s boyfriend.

“When we archetypal got Topsy, she would beryllium allowed to slumber successful the furniture with me. But erstwhile Colin came, an absurd edict was introduced whereby she was nary longer allowed upstairs. I evidently had a batch of choler and hatred successful maine astir this due to the fact that I would perch astatine the apical of the stairs and lure her to travel up—‘Topsy! Topsy! Topsy!’” Russell writes.

“Then, erstwhile she would slink nervously upward to the forbidden terrain of the precocious floor, I would abruptly go Mr. Hyde. ‘Oh dear, Topsy,’ I would declaim, successful a alternatively arch manner, ‘you cognize perfectly good you’re not allowed upstairs’ earlier cruelly kicking her backmost down to the bottommost again, wherever I would rejoin her and springiness her a sympathetic cuddle, regretfully muttering, ‘Oh Christ! Were you kicked down the stairs? This is terrible,’” helium goes on.

“That’s rather fucked up, isn’t it?” Russell notes. “My person Matt Morgan says Topsy must’ve thought she lived successful a location with twins—an evil 1 who lived connected the landing, and a bully 1 who dwelt downstairs.”

Unsurprisingly, this resurfaced excerpt has been met with a lot of daze and outrage, with American comic Patton Oswalt drafting further attraction to it by sharing the screenshot to his Threads relationship alongside the caption: "Maybe beingness successful situation conscionable for this?”

Reacting to the full happening connected a Reddit forum, 1 idiosyncratic said of Russell: “And this is conscionable the maltreatment helium admitted to and wrote astir reasoning helium was being funny.” Another shared a akin sentiment, writing: “what the fuck determination is thing truthful sinister astir him. helium virtually wrote this in his ain book arsenic a amusive small anecdote.”

Somebody other added: “I don't adjacent privation to cognize what different ‘anecdotes’ were really edited retired to marque this 1 look good capable to permission in.”

One much recalled different shocking anecdote from Russell’s book, which BuzzFeed has verified to beryllium true. They shared: “By acold not the worst happening he's done but the anecdote from his publication that ever stuck with me, for immoderate reason, is simply a communicative helium told astir a kindly aged neighbour who had grown immoderate flowers helium was precise arrogant of and was showing Brand. The neighbour past went wrong for a infinitesimal and Brand decided, for nary crushed whatsoever, to stomp each implicit and crush the flowers. He remembered the antheral coming backmost retired and conscionable staring successful shock.”

BuzzFeed has contacted Russell’s rep for comment.

If you oregon idiosyncratic you cognize has experienced intersexual assault, you tin telephone the National Sexual Assault Hotline astatine 1-800-656-HOPE (4673), which routes the caller to their nearest intersexual battle work provider. You tin besides hunt for your section halfway here.