Russell Brand Denies 'Very Serious Criminal Allegations' After Receiving 'Two Extremely Disturbing Letters' (Video)

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Russell Brand has posted a video to his YouTube channel in which he is denying “very, very serious criminal allegations” that were made against him, though they haven’t been made public just yet.

The 48-year-old comedian and former actor says that he has been contacted by a “mainstream media TV company and a newspaper” and that they sent “extremely disturbing letters.” “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 my community festival should be stopped, that I shouldn’t be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel,” he said. Keep reading to find out more… Russell believes that there is a “coordinated attack” being made against him in the media and is denying the allegations in the letters, though he hasn’t clarified what they were. “But amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks, are some 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,” he said. “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.” Russell continued, “I was always transparent about that then – almost too transparent.