Russell Brand cheated on his girlfriends and even his wife, but she insisted she now considered him an 'amazing husband,' a court heard.
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Laura Brand, the wife of the 51-year-old actor, took the stand in her husband's rape trial on Thursday to say he was an 'attentive husband' despite his previous infidelities.
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The mother-of-three described her devotion to the man she fell in love with at the age of 19, despite the then 31-year-old being unable to stay faithful to her during the early years of their relationship.
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In an extraordinary appearance at Southwark Crown Court, the trial had to be briefly halted after Brand's defence barrister Ian Winter, KC, attempted to ask his wife of nine years what she thought about the 'truth of the allegations' against him.
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The judge asked jurors to leave the court briefly following objections by Prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones, KC, about the line of questioning of a character witness who had sat in the court listening to the entire trial.
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Earlier, the judge had to warn Mr Winter to confine his questions to relevant matters as the witness was asked how they met and married.
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When the case resumed, Mrs Brand was asked instead about Brand's truthfulness.
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Laura Brand, wife of British actor and comedian Russell Brand, arrives with him at Southwark Crown Court
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The 39-year-old said: 'Russell, my husband, is caring, he is kind, he is a wonderful father to our children.
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He has got an eye for detail I've never known before.
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'The way he treats me is to really know me, I feel very seen by him in every way.
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I love him very much.'
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She went on: 'We have a very honest, frank and clear relationship and marriage.
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But she admitted when they first got together it was 'difficult for him to be monogamous'.
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She told jurors that she was an inexperienced 19-year-old when she met the 31-year-old at one of his gigs after her TV presenter sister Kirsty Gallacher got tickets as she shared an agent with Brand.
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Following the show in August 2006, she approached Brand to thank him for the free tickets but he was more interested initially in her 'beautiful' friend.
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Mrs Brand said: 'He acknowledged my friend, who is very beautiful, and said to my friend, "Have you got a boyfriend?"
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'She said "yes, I do", and then he looked at me and said, "Tell me you don't have a boyfriend".
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I said "No, I don't".
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I did give him my phone number.
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As they began dating, she said Brand was 'totally caring' and let the relationship progress 'totally at my pace'.
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Mrs Brand, who is the daughter of Scottish golfer and former Ryder Cup captain Bernard Gallacher, said: 'I was not experienced, I had only had one partner before Russell.
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I felt entirely cared for and looked after by Russell.'
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They lived together for 15 months.
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The trial had to be briefly halted after Brand's defence barrister Ian Winter, KC, attempted to ask his wife of nine years what she thought about the 'truth of the allegations' against him
But she was then left 'heartbroken' after discovering he was having sex with other women and broke off the relationship in 2007.
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She said: 'I wasn't interested in having a relationship with him if he was sleeping with other people.
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I was invested, we both had told each other we loved each other, but it was clear it was difficult for him to be monogamous.'
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They stayed friends during Brand's brief marriage to Katy Perry in 2010, before they got back together in 2015 and married in 2017.
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During his wife's evidence, Brand could be seen mouthing words in her direction as she went on to describe how he had been baptised and become a Christian.
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The entertainer, who has displayed little emotion during the course of his trial, was seen grinning and nodding as she gave evidence.
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He laughed when she told the court: 'We do have many friends and there are colleagues, and we are grateful for those people.'
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Ms Karmy-Jones said Mrs Brand was not in a relationship with the defendant during the period of the alleged offences and pointed out his wife had previously told a podcast that she had not seen Brand 'for years' before they reconciled in 2015.
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The prosecutor also asked Mrs Brand about her husband's appearance on the Wendy Williams chat show in America when he said he thought 'the world was an amusement park made of orgasms'.
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Mrs Brand said she was aware of his comments on the show.
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Earlier, the court heard from a succession of girlfriends whom Brand had previously cheated on.
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Elia Alvarez Diaz, a ballet dancer who dated him for three years in 1996, said he acquired a 'bad boy reputation' and was a 'difficult boyfriend' adding: 'He was promiscuous and unfaithful.
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We had many arguments.
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'I felt like I could no longer trust him to be faithful.'
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She told the court that she supported Brand financially and could not trust him to pay the rent and contribute to financial household expenses.
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Another ex-girlfriend, Amanda Alguero Alejos told the court that Brand was her drama teacher when they began a relationship in October 1999.
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…and 2 more, not listed.
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