More women make allegations against Russell Brand

More women have come forward to make allegations about disgraced entertainer Russell Brand, in interviews with the Times and a new Netflix documentary.

Brand was jailed earlier this week after being found guilty of one count of rape and three of sexual assault at a trial in London.

Allegations against him first emerged after an investigation by the Times, the Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches in 2023.

The Times has now reported, external accusations of what it called sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour by a further six women, which the newspaper said could not be reported until the criminal case had ended. He has denied non-consensual sexual activity.

The Times report was published on Thursday evening, and a Netflix documentary, titled Russell Brand: Open Secret, was made available on Friday morning.

The programme included an interview with a woman referred to as Emily, not her real name, who said she was in a relationship with Brand when she was in her twenties.

On one occasion, she said she “literally begged” Brand to stop after he refused to wear a condom during sex.

Emily, who was portrayed by an actress in the documentary, said: “I said to him, ‘No, Russell, please, let’s just use protection.’ I kept saying ‘No’. I said, ‘Stop Russell, stop, please don’t, please.’

“I begged him. I literally begged him. I tried to kick him off, I tried to draw my knees back, to kick him in his belly, but he was too strong for me.”

But he “just pinned my hands back behind my head” before forcing himself upon her, she alleged.

“When it happens you just feel like, is this… is this rape? Because I’m with this guy [in a relationship],” she said, according to the documentary.

“I know I said ‘No’, but you question yourself and you think, did I do something wrong?”

She “left his as quickly as I could” and told one friend what had happened, but “back then women felt shamed”, she said.

“You didn’t talk about it. I just felt completely violated and unseen and unheard. I was saying ‘No’. I kept saying, ‘No, stop, please, stop, stop, no’.”