The Metropolitan Police has released five videos of Russell Brand being interviewed over allegations of rape and sexual assault, showing the entertainer visibly uneasy and responding with a subdued "I have nothing further to add" when confronted with a woman's testimony.
The recordings, made between November 2023 and July 2025, capture Brand delivering pre-written statements before declining to engage with police enquiries. The energetic, rapid-fire persona familiar from his television prime was conspicuously absent during the interviews.
Interview footage released
During a November 2023 interview, when detectives informed Brand of the presence of recording equipment, the disgraced entertainer was observed turning towards a camera mounted overhead and casting anxious glances at the microphones positioned on the interview room table.
Confronted with claims he anally raped a 21-year-old admirer following an encounter at the Hammersmith Apollo, Brand responded curtly and softly: "I have nothing to add at this time." Additional footage shows him reciting from printed copies of pre-prepared statements he provided rather than responding to police questioning.
Statements attacking media investigation
Within these statements, which were presented during the trial, Brand attacked the 2023 investigation conducted by The Times, Sunday Times and Channel 4 that initially levelled sexual misconduct allegations against him.
He stated: "I led a very promiscuous life in the past, which I have spent years openly denouncing... On September 16 2023, a defamatory and fictitious documentary was broadcast in conjunction with the publication of two national newspapers containing false anonymised allegations which led to unprecedented media reporting."
He added: "Subsequently, both the media and the police publicly invited additional allegations to be made, which resulted in further encounters being invented or reimagined."
Conviction and sentencing
Brand maintained he had enjoyed "friendly, consensual and warm" interactions with fans where there was "often physical contact", adding: "I had sexual encounters in countless locations and scenarios, often with people I had just met."
He said: "The way of life that I have described, the magnitude of the promiscuity, deceptively rendered in recent media attacks, accompanied by advertisements for complainants, have caused consensual encounters to be unfavourably reframed decades later."
Brand was found guilty on Thursday at Southwark Crown Court of rape and three counts of sexual assault, following a four-week trial. He remains in custody and faces a substantial prison sentence on Monday.
