Russell Brand responds to rape and sexual assault charges

nme.com:

Russell Brand has issued a response after being charged with rape and sexual assault earlier today (April 4).The Metropolitan Police say the comedian and actor, 50, has also been charged with one count of oral rape and one count of indecent assault.

The charges relate to four separate women, according to BBC News.In an Instagram post with the caption “My response”, Brand responded to the charges first thanking people for their “incredible and overwhelming messages of support”, ruminating over what he expresses as “a time where there’s so little trust in the British government”.“We’re very fortunate, I suppose, that this is happening at a time where we know that the law has become a kind of weapon to be used against people, institutions, and sometimes entire nations,” he said, “that will not accept and tolerate levels of corruption that are unprecedented.”He then asked his British followers about how they feel about their legal system and “the high-profile cases that are not being pursued and prosecuted”, name-dropping the Southport murders and UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer.Finally, he got to his direct response to the charges: “I was a fool before I lived in the light of the Lord.

I was a drug addict, a sex addict and an imbecile, but what I never was, was a rapist,” he stated. “I’ve never engaged in non-consensual activity.