Russell Brand Responds To Rape & Sexual Assault Charges: “The Law Has Become A Weapon”

Russell Brand has said he is “incredibly grateful” that his day in court is coming after being charged with rape and sexual assault by UK authorities.

The one-time Forgetting Sarah Marshall star said he was a “drug addict, sex addict and an imbecile” during his youth, but he was never a rapist.

“I’ve never engaged in non-consensual activity. I pray that you can see that by looking in my eyes,” he told his social media followers in a short video while wearing a straw hat.

It follows London’s Metropolitan Police charging Brand with one count of rape, one count of indecent assault, one count of oral rape, and two counts of sexual assault. The charges relate to four separate women between 1999 and 2005. He has been summoned to Westminster Magistrates’ Court on May 2.

Brand lashed out at British authorities for bringing the charges. “We’re very fortunate, I suppose, that this is happening at a time where we know that the law has become a kind of weapon to be used against people,” he said.

“I’m now gonna have the opportunity to defend these charges in court, and I’m incredibly grateful for that. In the meantime, you lot stay free,” he added.

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