The comedian and actor preemptively denied the allegations in a video posted to his social media accounts on Friday.
Another woman alleged that the comedian assaulted her when he was 31, and she was 16. She explained that he called her “the child” during their emotionally abusive and controlling relationship that lasted for around three months. She claimed that he “forced his penis down her throat” and made her choke, only backing off when she punched him in the stomach.
A third woman told the outlets that Brand sexually assaulted her while she worked with him in L.A. and said he threatened to take legal action if she went public with what happened. The fourth woman also alleged the actor sexually assaulted her and was physically and emotionally abusive toward her. The actor and comedian preemptively denied the allegations in a video posted to his social media platforms on Friday. He said he received an email and a letter from a mainstream TV company and a newspaper that listed several “egregious and aggressive” acts that he “absolutely refute[s].”
“These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous,” he said in the video posted to his Twitter and Instagram. “Now during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then — almost too transparent — and I’m being transparent about it now as well.
He continued, saying that he believes that transparency is being used to show something criminal that he did not do and makes him think there may be another agenda at play. He cited the “coordinated media attacks” that Joe Rogan faced when he took
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