Russell Brand 🤢🤮

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🤢 🤢 Russell Brand. I never liked him anyway, Now he's on trail. Denies all charges of course.

Please never serve on a jury. If you really believe that no-one brought to trial is ever innocent, how do you account for all the known miscarriages of justice?

Let's no forget Jonathan Ross was in his mid-20s when he got together with the 16-year-old Jane Goldman that he's now married to.

No, it is not always reported and "acted" upon.

And been married to for 38 years. What's your point?

It does seem if people like the perpetrator (or alleged) they don’t get so outraged. Look at people taking their kids to the Michael Jackson film.

You don't seem to know the difference between 'censorship' and 'expressing an opinion'.

Or, it's expressing an opinion when you agree with it, and censorship when you don't.

Confession: I liked Brand in his heyday. He had a working class accent and spouted about philosophy and critical theory and I thought that was cool.

I did tire of him, obviously.

He is undoubtedly a total sleaze but on the news his flatmate said he boasted he wanted to sleep with 5000 women and that he could be charming to get his own way and then be creepy and cruel.

I mean totally yuk but not crimes in themselves.

Can you imagine if it were? All the apologies of men we hear about on here banged up. Put like that there’s a certain appeal.

But unless actual abuse is proven I don’t think Mr Brand is going to be locked up. We will see.

Your whatabouttery really reveals your true intentions pal. Bisous.

Did he actually rape anyone? or was it cases of the women having sex with a known sex - obsessed celebrity, where she inevitably ended up finding the sex a bit weirder than she was used to. Afterwards she says

‘I didn’t enjoy that as much as I thought I would’ I’m going to squeeze what I can out of this guy because he’s rich and famous.
There is whole world of difference between that and rape.

Have you read the accounts described in yesterday’s opening statements? They are very graphic and deeply upsetting, but I think may change your view on this.

He has ADHD and bipolar, doesn't he? I think that's what has made him so appealing, because his manic refusal of boundaries made him come out with some vivid reactions on live TV.

But that extreme lack of inhibition can also be dangerous. I don't envy anyone the job of unpicking the clusterfuck of mental illness, self-medication and hypersexuality.

I've always found the women's personal accounts very disturbing to read, especially the little details that convey just how sinister and menacing it was (e.g. drooling saliva into her mouth) and the consistency of their experience (e.g. his eyes going black).

That's exactly why there is a trial ongoing - at the moment it is the prosecution's word against Brand's - all we have seen are reports of their allegations and reports of Brand's denials - no one can make a decision based on allegations and denials alone, no matter how disliked the alleged perpetrator might be and how much the allegations might seem to be in character.

I'm sure his defence team will have advised him to do that slow walk, head held high into court hand in hand with his wife

Why does his wife stand by him? (Sorry if this has been asked already)

Because she loves him, and at the moment he has not been found guilty of anything. He has denied the allegations and his wife believes him, which is not unnatural unless a wife has concrete evidence to disprove the denials.

Cos she can't publicly admit (or admit to herself) that she's got dreadful judgment. So she's doubling down with the "he can't possibly have done any of this". She probably believes that too. They have 3 children and (had) a calm zen lifestyle.
But she'll feel differently when all the evidence comes out, I'd hope.

Apparantely his father took him to visit prostitutes, Weird.

This thread just gets worse, especially naming others who’ve never been either charged or found guilty of any similar behaviour, why do certain MN posters believe they’re entitled to comment in this way?

Now we have the inevitable ‘why is his wife standing by him? Unless you’re his wife, why assume you have any right to comment on this situation at all, especially when there’s a family with young children involved too, perhaps stop and think before you post?

Gawd yeah. I just remember lots of stories about him wanting women to wash all the time. Maybe it's like oh, I can be disgusting and dirty but you have to be clean? Either way he is horrendous.

He did this really unfunny and morally appalling show where he bribed this homeless man with drugs to film with him and do humiliating things like get in the bath with him and go to the ideal home show. Brand always seemed to have this really naive pathetic notion about class A drugs. He never hit anywhere near rock bottom and he was filming and encouraging this poor guy. Then suddenly he's 'clean' and onto another obsession.
The guy died not long after.

Its an online forum where people are entitled to their opinions and discussions, i dont see how asked "why does wife stand by him" is not appropriate, its just a discussion point.

Im sure shes shes read far worse sadly.

The most awful was not proven. Not "not guilty". His death was nothing to do with it.

There's so many 'apparently' and 'I've heard' posts on here, it does seem a bit of a witch hunt.
Just because someone has uncombed hair doesn't make them scummy / smelly, it's just his brand (pun intended). A lot of you are really coming across as snobs basing your opinions of him on how he looks.
I've always liked him and will be sad to have to change that if he's found guilty.

He wrote about that in his first book. Grim reading and explains a lot about his attitude to women.

Pray tell, what are my "true" intentions? 🤔

How big is it??