Russell Brand, who was jailed for ten years and six months at Southwark Crown Court for raping a fan in 2009 and sexually assaulting three other women over a five-year period, made light of his sexual addiction in a resurfaced clip from 2007.
The footage, from an appearance on the Jonathan Ross Show, shows Brand promoting his autobiography My Booky Wook, which opens with him checking into the KeyStone Center Extended Care Unit in Philadelphia for sex addiction treatment in 2005.
Jokes About Rehab Contract
During the interview, Jonathan Ross prompted Brand about the book's opening, and Brand confirmed it was "a treatment centre for sexual addiction" before turning to the audience. Ross remarked, "What better start to a book than that could you find?" Brand then joked, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times... It was pretty much the worst of times."
He continued: "In a sexual addiction centre you are under a lot of pressure to not have sex. They made me sign a contract. My hands were trembling on account of the lack of hullabaloo. I couldn't hold the pen." When Ross asked if he was thinking about it all the time, Brand replied, "Not really, because I was doing it. I couldn't get enough monkey business. It takes up all your time after a while. It becomes laborious. As much as I appreciate all the awards and the recognition and the orgasms, after a while you need to have a jolly good sit down."
Memoir Details and Reaction
In his 2007 memoir, Brand also claimed his dad Ron paid for him to lose his virginity at a brothel when he was 17. He wrote about an episode in Hong Kong, describing being "sat on a bar stool with a Filipino called Mary-Lou" and later in a hotel with his dad and prostitutes.
Users reacted with shock to the passages, with one saying they "shuddered" while re-reading the section, another noting "there's lots of examples of awful behaviour in that book," and a third calling it "horrific."
Brand is currently under investigation over two further rape allegations, and Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said his officers are braced for "many, many more" possible victims to come forward.
