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Yo say Russell Brand can’t stoop much lower.

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OoLaOoLa · 02/05/2025 10:40

He has appeared in court this morning so I’m guessing he is in panic mode.
He seems to trying to use distraction tactics to avoid the reality of his past..
What about grooming gangs?
What about Southport?
I mean how low can you get to compare the Southport tragedy to what is happening in your life, both things have nothing to with him!
And if anyone is bored enough to try and explain his supporters to me feel free.. Lots of comments like, The government are trying to set him up because he has unlocked the matrix and got them all worried.
Are people really suggesting that he had kier Starmer so worried that the government have found four women willing to lie to the police about rape?
it’s completely insane.

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Sweaterbag · 02/05/2025 18:24

I must have missed that. Why on earth would Bear Grylls have baptised him?!

looselegs · 02/05/2025 18:26

Never liked him
Liked him even less after the Andrew Sachs phone call with Jonathan Ross
(who should have been sacked for it ).

crinkletits · 02/05/2025 18:26

People seem to be confusing manipulation with intelligence in his camp. He is trying and often succeeding to win favour with the lowest intellectual level. The men that have failed in life be it socially, financially or emotionally and are desperate to group together to blame anyone but themselves for there failures. He always had a touch of the emperor’s new clothes or the 15 year old obnoxious precocious intellectual for me. When I think about narcs I have a tinge a 1% of sympathy for them as it stems from trauma/parenting etc but I have nothing for him at all.

Charlize43 · 02/05/2025 18:29

Wasn't he claiming last month to have found God and that he is no longer the person he was? He comes across as a total narc and manipulator.

There are too many women coming forward. I saw the documentary and remember the account of the one who was raped in LA. It sounded brutal.

HiddenInCubeOfCheese · 02/05/2025 18:31

Yes, innocent until proven guilty etc etc, but it’s plainly concrete this guy is a wrong’un on some counts.

butterpuffed · 02/05/2025 18:38

HiddenInCubeOfCheese · 02/05/2025 18:15

His absolute disrespect for anyone and anything symbolised in his ridiculous outfit. What a twat.

THAT outfit to court on a criminal charge? Pillock.

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He does things like that deliberately , I'm sure he thinks it's clever , he's very strange .

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OoLaOoLa · 02/05/2025 18:38

EnhancedVampireEyeballs · 02/05/2025 16:24

I am not going into detail, but I can, from personal experience, absolutely confirm that he is a rapist. I hope he gets sent to prison. I hope he goes to fucking hell. I hope he gets even a drop of what he deserves.

Seeing his odious face on the news has genuinely made me vomit.

So do I x

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Hdjdb42 · 02/05/2025 18:46

He's openly admitted his bad past. I do believe that he's changed for the good, but he still committed crimes that need to be atoned.

deeahgwitch · 02/05/2025 18:50

JojoM1981 · 02/05/2025 10:43

Turned up with his shirt open. No respect for the courts. A complete narc 🤮

I thought that was odd - arriving with his shirt open.
You’d think someone would advise him that it looks disrespectful to the court. 🤔Or perhaps they did and this was his response.

thepariscrimefiles · 02/05/2025 18:52

Hdjdb42 · 02/05/2025 18:46

He's openly admitted his bad past. I do believe that he's changed for the good, but he still committed crimes that need to be atoned.

He hasn't really changed for the good. It's all a money-making grift.

EmeraldShamrock000 · 02/05/2025 18:58

Hdjdb42 · 02/05/2025 18:46

He's openly admitted his bad past. I do believe that he's changed for the good, but he still committed crimes that need to be atoned.

Highly unlikely, he has a PR team advising him on how to play this. Like the other predators who use religion or a fake crisis as a distraction to prying eyes.

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OoLaOoLa · 02/05/2025 19:04

BitOutOfPractice · 02/05/2025 18:11

I don’t think there’s a woman in the world who is surprised that this is who he is. You can see just by looking at him.

Did you see the video he did after he’d been charged, He said.. I’ve never been a rapist and I hope you can see that from looking in my eyes.
All I can see looking into his eyes (in the video I’ve just mentioned) is rage and contempt. It’s a look I’ve seen in pleanty of men’s eyes over the years and unfortunately normally ends with them either punching a hole in the door or punching me.

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WilfredsPies · 02/05/2025 19:13

Justhere65 · 02/05/2025 18:11

I hate trial by media.

There are so many things to hate about rape trials, aren’t there? I hate that rape is so difficult to get a conviction for that it’s practically legal. I hate that victims of famous rapists are always accused of reporting it for the fame and/or the money. I hate that a ‘Not Guilty’ verdict is interpreted as ‘innocent’ and the victim is made out to be a liar simply because it was impossible to prove beyond a reasonable doubt.

@EnhancedVampireEyeballs and everyone else who has gone through similar. 💐 You are warriors.

sprigatito · 02/05/2025 19:17

EnhancedVampireEyeballs · 02/05/2025 18:09

And nobody gets to tell me I'm not a 'genuine victim'. I know the truth.

I believe you. I’m so sorry. I hope he gets everything he deserves.

WilfredsPies · 02/05/2025 19:17

Hdjdb42 · 02/05/2025 18:46

He's openly admitted his bad past. I do believe that he's changed for the good, but he still committed crimes that need to be atoned.

I’m not referring specifically to RB here, but do you really believe that it’s possible for a sex offender to change? I mean, I can understand that a thief could change if their circumstances changed. Or a violent thug could change as they got older, drank less and went out less. But if you’ve got it in you to do that to a person, does that ever leave you? I’m not convinced it does.

TokyoKyoto · 02/05/2025 19:17

He's not really intelligent. He learned at some point how to use big words as weapons. His wordiness appeals to people who either talk like that (likely manipulators) or have been talked to like that (likely victims in some way, a narc parent maybe). But the content of his arguments can be easily seen through.

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OoLaOoLa · 02/05/2025 19:19

I’ve never liked him either, I remember reading a story years ago about a woman who went to his house to have a job interview, I believe it was a cleaning job. She said he answered the door in his boxers and got all arsey with her when she asked him to put some clothes on.. Within 10 minutes of getting there she said he tried it on with her and then stormed off when she knocked him back. According to her when he stormed out of the room the back of the boxers where covered in shit stains.

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PonyPatter44 · 02/05/2025 19:23

EnhancedVampireEyeballs · 02/05/2025 18:03

Thank you for saying this. My hands are shaking so hard I can barely type. I very much appreciate the support.

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I'm so sorry this happened to you. I believe you, for what that's worth (as one anonymous poster to another).

RB is grim, nowhere near as funny and clever as he thinks he is, and looks like he smells.

KilkennyCats · 02/05/2025 19:23

Locutus2000 · 02/05/2025 16:10

Christ, give it a rest.

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It’s true, though…

KilkennyCats · 02/05/2025 19:25

WilfredsPies · 02/05/2025 19:17

I’m not referring specifically to RB here, but do you really believe that it’s possible for a sex offender to change? I mean, I can understand that a thief could change if their circumstances changed. Or a violent thug could change as they got older, drank less and went out less. But if you’ve got it in you to do that to a person, does that ever leave you? I’m not convinced it does.

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No. I don’t believe there are ever any sudden epiphanies for sex offenders.

treesandsun · 02/05/2025 19:33

I thought the religious conversion was more of a career move to expand his schtick to the US . For quite a while I thought he was going to say it was all a ploy to go 'under cover' with the Trumps but no it was for real.
I am surprised by what the press have reported re the allegations that the CPS have thought it was enough to charge him - especially when it is historical and so few sexual assault / rape cases seem to go to court - does there being a few different people make a difference?

SALaw · 02/05/2025 19:42

Is he still with his wife?

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OoLaOoLa · 02/05/2025 19:51

SALaw · 02/05/2025 19:42

Is he still with his wife?

Yep, god knows what she sees in him.

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treesandsun · 02/05/2025 19:53

SALaw · 02/05/2025 19:42

Is he still with his wife?

Yes - bizarrely - he mentioned her on some you tube thing quite recently. Wonder if she will stay with him though.