Russell Brand's 16-year-old accuser slams his 'insulting' response
Russell Brand's 16-year-old accuser claims the TV star left her feeling 'dirty and cheap' as she slammed his response to sexual abuse allegations.
Brand - who denies the 'very serious' claims - appeared live on stage in Wembley on Saturday night as Channel 4 Dispatches aired. One of his alleged victims, who has claimed to have had a three month relationship in 2006 when she was 16 years old and the actor was 30 has now called the comedian's response 'insulting'.
Appearing on BBC's Woman's Hour on Monday, the woman who is known as 'Alice' claims a BBC chauffeur-driven car was used to pick her up from school and take her to the comic's house. He also says Brand coached her on what to say to get away with seeing him.
He spoke on Friday night to slam "astonishing rather baroque attacks" (@Russell Brand/YouTube)She said: "I think it is insulting. It is laughable that he would even imply that it's a mainstream media conspiracy. He's not outside of mainstream media. It was my first sexual experiences and I felt used up, I felt cheap, I felt dirtied by the whole thing I thought if I go for bottom of the barrel, I can never be disappointed by anyone and I can never be hurt by anyone because I know to expect the absolute worst.
"I missed a lot of school and was not in a good place mentally." Alice went on to say her mother attempted to "stop what was going on" - taking her phone away, and grounded her. "I’m 16 years old so I need to definitely to go to school. I need to go to after-school activities. I need to see my friends, within those times that I would sneak off and see him," she recalls.
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"Russell groomed me, he coached me on what to say to my parents. He told me to save his number in my phone in a different name. I think we should at least start to think about changing the ideas of consent, because the individuals between the ages of 16 and 18 can have relations with people within that same age."
The TV and film star has been accused of rape, sexual assault and abuse by five women between 2006 and 2013. The 48-year-old denied any criminal wrongdoing and says every sexual relationship he has had has been totally consensual.
On Friday night, Russell released a statement saying: "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. Then almost too transparent, and I'm being transparent about it now as well. And to see that transparency metastasized into something criminal that I absolutely deny makes me question, is there another agenda at play?"
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