WTF happened to Russell Brand?

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I'm just watching his videos on Youtube and he seems (sorry) WOKE as fuck all of a sudden. WTF happened to him?!

Need to Google woke

He hurt loads and loads of women

Yes, and that is unpleasant, he was diagnosed with BPD though (and was abused as a child) and that does cause huge difficulties in relationships, doesn't necessarily make him a bad person though.

Even Gwynneth Paltrow.

No, sorry - that is too far.

What Bloomberg said.

I've watched him for many years. I commented on one of his videos once, he read out my comment and laughed at my joke.

I agree with some of what he has to say, he sometimes gives good advice, he waffles on too much and doesn't always make sense. I still haven't decided if he's in the illuminati or not, he says not, but that's what they all say.

@todayisnottuesday yes but some of the things that he has done and said to women, are just beyond cruel.

I was also abused as a child, and I have never made a prostitute cry, pushed women into threesomes that they didn't want to do etc.

He seemed to really enjoy hurting women

He is still the same underneath: under the impression that everything he says is new and stunning and we're all waiting to hear from him on societies biggest crises. He's just tried to make it a bit more seemly than actively swinging his balls in our faces.

I watched his Corona virus video today and thought it was quite good! He spoke very well and had some good points.

todayisnottuesday

It also doesn't excuse him from being a pretentious twat.

I thought he was a Buddhist. He did a BBC program on Jack Kerouac back in 2007 and spoke about his own interest in spirituality and Buddhism then, I think he just takes it more serious now.

I used to love RB, that was until I heard his personal hygiene was lacking 🤢

Woke means super aware and super sensitive to all the issues of people in society.

That’s sounds like a very stressful situation.

There's nothing more tedious than a reformed piss-head who thinks they've found enlightenment.

I’ve voted YABU, because WTF is woke?! It’s hasn’t really got a meaning!

I find he hangs all of his pontifications on way too esoteric assumptions so he always loses me from the off.

Sad really because I think he has a gift for communication and I do rather love him. (read his books etc)

I just wish he would turn that clever brain to questioning all of the cults he seems so fond of (12 step being one of them).

So basically he used to be an irritating, self-centred, attention-seeking arse and now he's an irritating, woke, 'spiritual', attention-seeking arse. He's very unfunny and has a spectacularly annoying manner.

I quite like him- i've always had a crush on him . I had no idea he has BPD though!

It also doesn't excuse him from being a pretentious twat

I doubt he'd want excusing for being a pretentious prat.

My point was - having BPD often causes behavioural and relationship problems. As can addiction problems. they do not necessarily make those with either 'bad people.

He is now older and seems to have mellowed, he also seems very self- aware, I imagine he had to put a lot of work in to gain that insight. I applaud and and admire anyone who has addressed their addictions and MH issues in the way he has. I also think he has a lot of wisdom to pass on and am glad he seems to be using his platform in this way.

@Bezalelle
There's nothing more tedious than a reformed piss-head who thinks they've found enlightenment.
Absolutely spot on, and very funny

He’s always been like that 🤷‍♀️😂
Speaks sense a lot of the time, but can get too wordy.

Typical of the mumsnetter majority to dismiss someone like him.

Ha, yes

reformed piss-head who thinks they've found enlightenment

That is just nasty.

He was abused as a child, and ended up an adult with MH and addiction problems. As did probably a lot of those PEOPLE you'd dismiss as 'a piss-head'.

Has an undeserved sense of self-importance and zero self awareness

Absolutely spot on, and very funny

Yes - hahahaha - hilarious, denigrating people with MH issues who have had the courage to tackle and address their issues.

@todayisnottuesday I don't buy that.

As I said many of us were abused as children.

I didn't make a prostitute cry because I was so awful to her.

Being abused as a child is not an excuse!