In his 2007 book, My Booky Wook, Russell Brand recalled his interactions with the family dog Topsy when he was around 11 years old
Disgraced comedian Russell Brand was found guilty of rape and three counts of sexual assault and was today sentenced to 10 years and six months.
But his cruelty also extended towards animals, as evidenced by his very own autobiography.
In his 2007 book, My Booky Wook, Brand recalled his interactions with the family dog Topsy when he was around 11 years old and referred to his mum’s boyfriend Colin, who banned her from going upstairs.
In the passage, he writes: “When we first got Topsy, she would be allowed to sleep in the bed with me. But when Colin came, an absurd edict was introduced whereby she was no longer allowed upstairs. I evidently had a lot of anger and hate in me about this because I would perch at the top of the stairs and lure her to come up—‘Topsy! Topsy! Topsy!’
“Then, when she would slink nervously upward to the forbidden terrain of the upper floor, I would suddenly become Mr. Hyde. ‘Oh dear, Topsy,’ I would declaim, in a rather arch manner, ‘you know perfectly well you’re not allowed upstairs’ before cruelly kicking her back down to the bottom again, where I would rejoin her and give her a sympathetic cuddle, regretfully muttering, ‘Oh Christ! Were you kicked down the stairs? This is terrible.'”
He adds: “That’s quite f***ed up, isn’t it? My friend Matt Morgan says Topsy must’ve thought she lived in a house with twins—an evil one who lived on the landing, and a good one who dwelt downstairs.”
Sharing the extract on X, one social media user wrote: “I find a good bench mark in life is how people treat animals. This is Russell Brand recounting his cruelty to the family dog as a child in his 2009 biography
MP Rosie Duffield commented in response: “Vile psychopathic behaviour.”
While another X user wrote: “That explains a lot of things. It’s not only cruel. It’s the worst kind of cruel because it encourages and then betrays trust. With the most loyal and pure of all creatures, a dog. That’s a permanent disqualification.”
One commented: “I didn’t think I could hate him more… but here we are.”
Today, brave victims of Russell Brand, 51, have revealed their trauma during the disgrace comic’s sentencing. Brand was stood in the dock while listening to his four victims’ statements, including one powerful message from a woman inside court.
Brand’s wife, Laura Gallacher, was on the verge of tears in court, as her husband’s barrister revealed she was standing by the disgraced comedian. Ms Gallacher and Brand exchanged several glances throughout the hearing, and she appeared to mouth “I love you” toward him when he first entered the court.
The disgraced former comedian was found guilty at Southwark Crown Court of raping a fan in 2009 and sexually assaulting three other women in a five-year period during the peak of his career in the 2000s.
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