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Disturbing act Russell Brand admitted to doing with his own dad in resurfaced footage
An old interview of Russell Brand and his father discussing participating in a particularly disturbing act has recently resurfaced following his sexual assault and rape conviction, in which he received 10-and-a-half-years in prison.
Brand was sentenced to a lengthy prison term in London on Monday, after being found guilty of three counts of sexual assault and one count of rape.
Since Brand received his punishment, social media has been revisiting old clips of the now-disgraced comedian displaying particularly alarming behavior towards women.
Disturbing footage resurfaces of Brand and his dad
However, one clip from his 2002 show RE:Brand has gone especially viral, with the then-26-year-old in conversation with his father, Ron.
In the re-emerged footage, the pair speak about an occasion they had entertained sex workers while in Thailand on holiday together, divulging explicit details.
“We’ve got on better since I’ve been an adult. Since that holiday where we went to Thailand; remember that first night? The Mandarin Palace Hotel in Hong Kong. All them women in swimsuits sort of parading about,” Brand revealed.
“I said ‘f*****g hell, all them women in swimsuits, I can’t wait to get back to my school and tell my mates about all them women in swimsuits’”
With his dad quipping: “I wish I had my flippers.”
Brand, now 51, has always spoken openly about his and his father’s strained relationship, with Ron leaving him and his mother when he was six months old.
Brand continued retelling the story: “And then one of them came over, and I thought I can’t wait to tell my mates that one of them came and spoke to me. Then she started touching my d**k and kissing me, and I thought ‘f*****g hell, I can’t wait to tell my mates’.
“And then what I ended up telling my mates was that I had three prostitutes in a back of a taxi, the clicker-clack of their high heels on that marble hotel lobby floor, and going up to that beautiful room, and you being there with that woman who came back for nothing didn’t she? The manager of the brothel, the madam, and you had some lovely success with her, and then you had that other one.
“I then had that lovely young Filipino one didn’t I? I fell in love with that Filipino woman,” Brand admitted.
“I remember you sitting there the next day reading the paper, and going ‘did you wear a condom with that bird last night?’, I went, ‘no, I never’, and you went ‘You should’ve.’”
Social media responds
Understandably, social media responded with outrage, with one X user commenting: “ I listened for about a minute, that was enough. Absolutely revolting. I wish I hadn't heard any of it. Now feeling utterly nauseous."
Another said: “So this happened in 2002 and no one called it out or thought it was a bit weird?"
Since Brand’s sentencing, Ron has openly defended him, suggesting that he was the victim.
When asked by reporters if he had anything to say to Brand’s victims, Ron replied: “The victim? What, Russell?”