reported by the BBC, the alleged victim, whom they are calling Olivia, claimed the assault happened on June 16, 2008, during the time she was working at the BBC’s Los Angeles location.
After letting Brand, 48, and his team inside for a taping, Olivia went to the bathroom next to the radio station, where she bent down and squatted to get some sinus medication from a medicine cabinet.
It was at that moment, she claimed, that she felt a presence behind her.Turning around, she was face-to-face with the Brand’s crotch.“I was startled and got up and I realized it was the man that I’d let in — Russell,” she recalled. “As I open up the cupboard doors under the sink, I felt someone behind me.”According to Olivia, the 48-year-old actor then said he was going to call her Betty.
After she replied that wasn’t her name, he reportedly responded, “Well, I’m gonna f – – k you.” When she replied, “No, you’re not,” he pulled out his penis in his hand and “pretty much served it to me as you would be serving someone some food,” she claimed.Olivia recalled feeling trapped because the bathroom door was closed. “There was a bit of banter going on because I didn’t know what to do,” she said, adding that Brand then put his penis back in his trousers and left after someone banged on the door and called for him.Afterward, the “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” actor was recorded laughing with his co-presenter Matt Morgan, who said Brand “showed his willy to a lady.”The Post has reached out to Brand for comment regarding the allegations.In the BBC’s coverage of the accusation, the organization said that “it was sorry to hear the allegations and would investigate them as part of a review into Brand’s time at the BBC.”BBC Director General Tim Davie announced.
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