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Russell Brand denies ‘criminal allegations’ ahead of Channel 4 Dispatches

Comedian Russell Brand has issued a statement in a YouTube video denying serious allegations, which have not been published after receiving an ‘extremely disturbing’ letter

Russell Brand has issued an lengthy statement and denied ‘criminal allegations’, which are yet to be published.

The 48-year-old comedian spoke in a two minute 45 second YouTube video in which he said he had received an ‘extremely disturbing’ letter and email from a TV company and newspaper, which “listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks”. In the video, which Russell shared in his YouTube channel on Friday night, he denied the allegations put to him in the letter and email. Russell has spoken out ahead of the airing of the Channel 4 Dispatches show, scheduled to air tonight at 9pm. The documentary is set to highlight the behaviour of an A-list name, the Mirror understands, and is said to be hugely damaging. Ahead of the show airing, Russell issued a statement on his social media.

In the video, he said: “Now, this isn’t the usual type of video we make on this channel where we critique, attack and undermine the news in all its corruption because in this story, I am the news. I’ve received two extremely disturbing letters or a letter and an email. One from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks, as well as some pretty stupid stuff like community festival should be stopped, that I shouldn’t be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel. But amidst this litany of astonishing rather baroque attacks, often very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.

“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. Now, during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that.

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