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Katy Perry Breaks Her Silence Since Ex-Husband Russell Brand Was Accused Of S*xual Assault
Katy Perry speaks out for the first time since her ex-husband Russell Brand was accused of rape.
Russell Brand was accused of rape, sexual assault, and emotional abuse by four women who said the alleged incidents took place as he attained fame, between 2006 and 2013. Katy Perry was married to the comedian for 14 months after they met in 2008. They had quite a lavish wedding in India at the Ranthambore Tiger Sanctuary in Rajasthan in 2010.
As Russell Brand is accused of sexual assault, Katy Perry has remained silent on the issue but not until now.
Questions have been raised about Katy, with her 2013 interview with Vogue resurfacing.
Both Katy and Russell’s marriage was short-lived, with the comedian telling the singer he wanted a divorce via text message the following year. In the Vogue Interview that resurfaced, the California Gurls singer claimed she initially took a lot of responsibility for the split until she found out the real truth. At the time, she said she would keep the truth, locked in her safe for a rainy day.
But now, Katy Perry has broken her silence, sharing her first post on Instagram after the claims came to light.
The singer didn’t mention her ex-husband Brand and instead shared photos of her new line of cowboy boots, including a photo of herself posing on a scooter.
However, Katy’s Vogue interview has prompted speculation about what secret the singer had been referring to following their split. She said at the time, ‘He’s a very smart man, and I was in love with him when I married him. Let’s just say I haven’t heard from him since he texted me saying he was divorcing me December 31, 2011.’ Perry added: ‘I felt a lot of responsibility for it ending, but then I found out the real truth, which I can’t necessarily disclose because I keep it locked in my safe for a rainy day. I let go and I was like: This isn’t because of me; this is beyond me. So, I have moved on from that.’
UK outlets The Times and Sunday Times reported that ‘several women’ have made undisclosed allegations about Russell Brand’s behavior in the early 2000s following a joint investigation with Channel 4. But then, Brand strongly denies any wrongdoing and accuses the ‘mainstream media’ of launching ‘astonishing, baroque attacks’ against him. Meanwhile, the new allegations, yet to be investigated, involve four women.
One of them claims she was sexually assaulted by Brand during a relationship when she was 16, and the BBC faces scrutiny for allegations that Brand used a company car to pick her up from school. Both the BBC and Channel 4 have initiated internal investigations into separate accusations of predatory behavior by Brand toward staff and audience members during his employment. Channel 4 has removed all programs featuring Brand from its website.
Netflix is urged to remove his comedy special, “Re:Birth,” from its streaming platform. The BBC announced its probe shortly before Scotland Yard revealed detectives wanted to speak to Brand’s alleged victims. The allegations include rape, sexual assault, and emotional abuse, with one woman, Alice, claiming Brand referred to her as ‘The Child’ and engaged in grooming behavior, including providing scripts for deceiving her parents and using a BBC car.
‘The first time I used it, he told me it was booked to take him to his radio show but he had a friend taking him instead, so I should use that car,’ she told The Times. ‘The same car picked her up from school and took her to her grandmother’s house, she claimed. ‘It was the same car. I knew that that was a BBC car.’ In a statement, a BBC spokesman said: ‘The documentary and associated reports contained serious allegations, spanning many years.’
They added, ‘Russell Brand worked on BBC radio programs between 2006 and 2008 and we are urgently looking into the issues raised.’ For his part, Brand has since lashed out at the media claims, insisting that any relationships he had during his time of promiscuity were consensual in a 2-minute, 45-second monologue to his 11 million followers on X and 6.5 million subscribers on YouTube. He further accused the news organizations of coordinating an attack on him, telling his followers, ‘Is there another agenda at play?’
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