Russell Brand admits to having sex with 16-year-old, being an ‘exploiter of women’ - BERITAJA

British character and comedian Russell Brand said successful a caller podcast question and reply that he had “exploitative” consensual activity pinch a 16-year-old woman erstwhile he was 30.

Brand’s comments connected U.S. media characteristic Megyn Kelly’s podcast travel arsenic he awaits proceedings successful the U.K. complete rape and intersexual battle allegations brought by six women who person accused him of various offences betwixt 1999 and 2009.

During the podcast, the 50-year-old described his past aforesaid arsenic “selfish” and an “exploiter of women.”

“I did slumber pinch a 16-year-old erstwhile I was 30. When I was 30, I was a very different person. I was a batch younger, and I was an immature 30-year-old,” he said.

Brand — who says he has since go a devout Christian and appeared connected Kelly’s podcast to beforehand his caller book, How to Become a Christian successful 7 Days — added that his entree to narcotics and women astatine the tallness of his fame provided him pinch an opportunity for “endless consent that” led him to beryllium a “hedonist” and a “fool.”

Speaking connected the existent intersexual battle allegations against him and his pending trial, the Forgetting Sarah Marshall character said, “What I’m evidently not only querying but violently, aggressively, assertively opposing is the thought that this [having activity pinch an abundance of women] is simply a judicial criminal matter wherever consent was overridden … actually, what happened was consent was directed,” Brand said.

“Consensual activity pinch a batch of people, erstwhile location is simply a beardown powerfulness differential, arsenic location is erstwhile you are a celebrated man who has the expertise to pull women that I had astatine that time, I think, involves exploitation. I deliberation it is exploitative,” he added, later estimating that he had intersexual interaction pinch “thousands” of women betwixt the mid-1990s and 2015.

The property of consent successful the U.K., wherever Brand is from and will spell connected proceedings successful October, is 16, but location are further protections successful spot to safeguard children nether 18, including against group successful positions of spot aliases power, according to the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC).

Brand, who is facing 3 charges of rape, 3 allegations of intersexual battle and 1 complaint of indecent assault, has pleaded not blameworthy connected each counts.

When the first batch of charges was announced successful April, he said that he welcomed the opportunity to beryllium his innocence.

“I was a fool earlier I lived successful the ray of the Lord,” he said successful a societal media video. “I was a supplier addict, a activity addict and an imbecile. But what I ne'er was, was a rapist. I’ve ne'er engaged successful non-consensual activity. I believe that you could spot that by looking successful my eyes.”

The Get Him to the Greek character has dropped retired of the mainstream media successful caller years, and built a ample alt-following online pinch videos that operation wellness, conspiracy theories and religion.

His proceedings is scheduled to statesman astatine Southwark Crown Court successful cardinal London connected Oct. 12, during which his six accusers will person the opportunity to speak to their claims.

A tribunal heard earlier that Brand faced allegations including raping a female successful a edifice room during a Labour Party convention successful confederate England, groping a tv worker and later forcing her into a men’s bath wherever he sexually assaulted her, and kissing and groping a power worker aft pinning her against a wall.