Claims extracted
15
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
13%
2 of 15 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
not political
takes no side on a contested political question
Publisher signals
66/100
New York Post's corrections and
hedging, across everything collected from it. Not a measure of accuracy.
Outlets on this story
2
Entertainment
Same framing elsewhere
1
articles that frame the event the way this one does
During his 2014 appearance on “The Jonathan Ross Show” alongside Lindsay Lohan, Brand, 51, discussed his 2012 arrest in New Orleans for throwing a photographer’s iPhone.
asserted
Brand → discuss → iPhone
“Sometimes they would leave me in police cells for a while, and I didn’t like that very much.
asserted
I → leave → that
It’s lonely.
asserted
It → ’ → ?
It’s hard to build rapport,” the disgraced comedian said in the resurfaced clip, prompting laughter from the audience.
asserted
comedian → ’ → audience
Brand went on to tell Lohan, who has also had several brushes with the law over the years, “It’s worse getting arrested in your country than it is in mine.”
asserted
it → go → mine
He joked that police in the UK were “so much more friendly,” explaining that officers handcuff suspects in front rather than behind their backs.
asserted
officers → joke → backs
The actor also quipped that US police had taken his drugs away, adding, “It’s boring in the cell.
asserted
It → quip → cell
That’s when you need drugs.”
asserted
you → ’ → drugs
Meanwhile, Lohan, 40, appeared visibly shocked by Brand’s remarks before revealing that she had once spent 14 days in solitary confinement.
asserted
she → appear → confinement
You leave your cell for one hour a day, and you don’t go outside,” she added.
asserted
she → leave → hour
He was acquitted of two additional rape charges and one count of attempted indecent assault.
asserted
He → acquit → assault
Justice Joel Bennathan had warned Brand that he faced a “significant” prison sentence.
Following his sentencing, solicitor Kally Sahota told Page Six that Brand would remain at HMP Wandsworth in London for “the next few weeks” before being transferred to another prison based on his “security, safety and rehabilitation needs.”
asserted
Brand → warn → needs
He is reportedly being assessed for a possible transfer to the notorious “Monster Mansion” prison, HMP Wakefield, a high-security facility where child sex offender Ian Watkins was stabbed to death last year.
uncertain
Watkins → assess → death
Brand reportedly spent his first 24 hours behind bars “staying in his cell as much as he can” and “trying not to show fear” as he awaits his transfer to another prison.
uncertain
he → spend → prison
He has since faced further allegations of sexual misconduct from six more women, including a 19-year-old named Vicky, who alleged that he continued having sex with her despite her asking him to stop because she was in pain.
asserted
she → face → pain
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