A woman said Russell Brand degraded her and treated her like “a piece of meat” when he raped her at his London townhouse, a court has heard.
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court → say → townhouse
She alleged she repeatedly begged the 51-year-old comedian to stop the assault which left her bleeding for days and in pain.
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which → allege → pain
Months later she bumped into Brand who texted her saying: “You’re dirty and I wanna push you further.”
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I → bump → you
Brand, 51, faces three charges of rape, three of sexual assault and one of indecent assault against six women, in allegations spanning 10 years from 1999 to 2009.
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Brand → face → 2009
He denies all the charges and has pleaded not guilty.
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He → deny → charges
The TV personality listened intently in the dock as the woman gave evidence from behind a screen at Southwark crown court on Wednesday.
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woman → listen → Wednesday
Brand is accused of anally raping the woman at his three-storey Victorian townhouse after picking her out from a crowd at one of his stand-up performances at the Hammersmith Apollo in early 2009.
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Brand → accuse → 2009
The woman told police she was a “massive fan” of Brand and had performed oral sex on him after the gig despite having a boyfriend at the time.
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she → tell → time
Days later, she went to Brand’s home in Hampstead, north-west London, knowing she would have vaginal sex with him.
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she → go → him
But she alleged Brand anally raped her after consensual vaginal sex.
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Brand → allege → sex
In tense exchanges with Brand’s barrister Ian Winter KC during cross-examination, the woman denied she had consented to anal sex but later regretted it because she was in pain and feared she had contracted HIV.
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she → deny → HIV
The woman told the court that Brand “didn’t act like he’d done something criminal” after the alleged attack, to which Winter replied: “That’s because you consented.”
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you → tell → which
She insisted she had not, telling the barrister: “We’re not here to discuss my morality.”
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We → insist → morality
“I didn’t consent to what happened to me,” she continued.
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she → consent → me
“I have said that repeatedly in questioning.
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I → say → questioning
I made it very clear that I thought I was going to have penetrative vaginal sex with a condom.
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I → make → condom
“I agree that I haven’t painted myself in a very good light.
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I → agree → light
I did just meet Mr Brand at the Hammersmith Apollo and I did have a partner who I really loved and I made a huge mistake.”
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I → meet → mistake
The woman was also questioned about her pre-recorded police interviews which were played to court on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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which → question → Tuesday
She told officers she ran into Brand at the Edinburgh Festival months after the alleged rape, and then received a “random” text from the comedian.
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she → tell → 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 claimed he responded: “Because you are dirty and I want to push you further.”
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I → claim → you
She said she replied saying: “I think you’ve pushed me far enough, you treated me like an animal,” to which Brand responded: “I’m sorry.”
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I → say → which
She told police: “I feel how I’d felt at his house, that I felt completely degraded and fucking treated like an animal, like a piece of meat.”
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I → tell → meat
Winter questioned why she had not replied to Brand saying he had raped her.
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he → question → her
He told the woman: “That’s because he had pushed you and probably had treated you like an animal, but he didn’t rape you.”
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he → tell → you
“I didn’t consent,” the woman replied.
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woman → consent → ?
Earlier, Winter said the woman was aware of Brand’s reputation, to which she replied: “I had not heard about Mr Brand raping somebody.”
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Brand → say → somebody
Winter replied: “Of course not.
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Winter → reply → ?
You knew that he was extremely sexually active with multiple women.
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he → know → women
You knew that he won the Sun newspaper’s Shagger of the Year three years running.”
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he → know → Year
He went on to describe how Brand’s show at the Hammersmith Apollo was “extremely sexually explicit” and that women were throwing their bras at the comedian and flashing their naked breasts.
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women → go → breasts
“I didn’t do that,” the woman replied.
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woman → do → that
The barrister said that after the show the woman had performed oral sex on Brand “who was effectively a total stranger, because you were obsessed with him at the time”.
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you → say → time
She replied: “If what you are asking is, would I have met someone … and then perform oral sex on him had he not been the person that he was, the answer is no.”
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answer → reply → him
The barrister said the woman was aware that Brand was interested in “transactional” sex when he persuaded her to go to his house after the gig.
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he → say → gig
“I didn’t think I was going to be his girlfriend,” she replied.
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she → think → ?
But the woman denied Winter’s suggestion that Brand had told her he wanted to have anal sex with her.
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he → deny → her
Winter said: “In a way, you went along with what he wanted because you were young and impressionable and obsessed with him.
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you → say → him
I’m putting to you, you agreed to do that.”
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you → put → that
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