Brand, now 51, is accused of raping the woman in 2009 after meeting her at one of his stand-up comedy performances at the Hammersmith Apollo.
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Brand → accuse → Apollo
A few days later she agreed to meet Brand at his £2.3 million home in Hampstead Village knowing they would have sex – but in her video-recorded interview played to Southwark Crown Court, she alleged the consensual sexual encounter turned to rape when Brand forced her into anal sex.
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Brand → agree → sex
She said the experience left her feeling “degraded”, and months later she told Brand he had made her feel “like a piece of meat”.
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her → say → meat
The woman said she came across Brand at the Edinburgh Festival after the alleged rape, and then received a “random” text from the comedian.
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she → say → comedian
The woman, who was in her early 20s, said she challenged Brand: “Why are you even messaging me?”
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you → say → me
She claims he responded by saying: “Because you are dirty and I want to push you further.”
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I → claim → you
She told police the message upset her, and in a later exchange she said she told Brand: “I think you’ve pushed me far enough.
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you → tell → me
You treated me like an animal.”
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You → treat → animal
The woman claims Brand then replied to say: “I’m sorry.”
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I → claim → ?
She said: “His response was horrible – the second one, I feel how I felt at his house was that I felt completely degraded and like I’d been treated like an animal, like a piece of meat.”
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I → say → meat
Brand denies three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault, and one allegation of indecent assault, after being accused by six different women.
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Brand → deny → women
Giving her account to police, the woman said she was a fan of Brand before going to see him at the Apollo, and she claims he picked her out in the foyer to join him backstage afterwards.
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he → give → him
Jurors have heard the woman engaged in a consensual threesome with Brand and another woman backstage, and then gave the comedian her number.
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woman → hear → number
She said a few days later she arranged to go to his Hampstead home, knowing they would have sex.
The court has heard details of Brand’s Victorian townhouse, which the woman said had “quite a gothic feel”, with black, white, and grey décor, a stag’s skull mounted on the wall of the living room, and a black-framed full-length mirror in the bedroom.
The police officer asked: “Anything distinctive about the bed?”
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officer → say → bed
The woman replied: “No, just that it was huge.”
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it → reply → ?
She said Brand forced her to shower when his driver dropped her off at his home, suggesting her mousse-filled hair smelled “funny”, and he also insisted that she brush her teeth.
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she → say → teeth
The woman said: “He told me to brush my teeth.
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He → say → teeth
We went into the bedroom and went on the bed.
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We → go → bed
We kissed and started having normal penetrative sex after some foreplay.”
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We → kiss → foreplay
Asked how she felt during the consensual sex, the woman replied: “I don’t think I enjoyed it, not because I didn’t feel I had consented to it.”
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I → ask → it
She added: “I felt really uncomfortable, and from having to take the shower, to brush (my teeth)…
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I → add → teeth
I didn’t feel the way he had made it sound in the messages.”
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it → feel → messages
Describing the alleged rape, the woman said Brand removed the condom and started to have anal sex without seeking consent.
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Brand → describe → consent
She said she was struggling to breathe and repeatedly told Brand: “Can you stop, can you stop, can you stop?”
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you → say → Brand
The woman said Brand “looked horrified” after the alleged rape, but while she thought he was going to apologise he instead told her to “clear up the mess that you’ve made”.
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you → say → that
She recalled Brand then putting Quantum Leap on the TV as she was left to clean up with wipes and black toilet paper.
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she → recall → wipes
She said: “He put the TV on, he took a phone call, and I would say within five – not long – he left the room.”
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he → say → room
The woman said she then left the home, and was told by Brand’s driver “he’s on in Hammersmith tonight and he needs to get ready”.
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he → say → Hammersmith
Brand is set to argue in his defence that sexual encounters from his past have now been “reimagined”, and they were all consensual.
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they → set → past
The trial continues.
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trial → continue → ?
The Aporia
