Footage of Russell Brand’s 2007 appearance on the Jonathan Ross Show has resurfaced where he joked about sex ‘taking up all your time’ and how he needed a ‘jolly good sit down’
Russell Brand made light of his sexual addiction in an unearthed clip as he appeared to suggest flouting a rehab clinic’s strict no-sex rule.
The disgraced former comedian was today jailed for ten years and six months at Southwark Crown Court for raping a fan in 2009 and sexually assaulting three other women over a five-year period during the peak of his career.
Appearing on the Jonathan Ross Show in 2007, the comedian was pushing his autobiography My Booky Wook. The memoir opens with Brand checking into the KeyStone Center Extended Care Unit in Philadelphia for sex addiction treatment in 2005.
Jonathan prompted his pal, saying “The book starts with you being checked into…..”
Brand then confirms: “A treatment centre for sexual addiction” before turning to the audience, awaiting applause.
The host added: “What better start to a book than that could you find?” before Brand joked: “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…
“It was pretty much the worst of times. In a sexual addiction centre you are under a lot of pressure to not have sex. They made me sign a contract. My hands were trembling on account of the lack of hullabaloo. I couldn’t hold the pen.”
As the crowd laughed along, Jonathan asked: “So you were thinking about it all the time?”
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Brand responded: “Not really, because I was doing it. I couldn’t get enough monkey business. It takes up all your time after a while. It becomes laborious As much as I appreciate all the awards and the recognition and the orgasms, after a while you need to have a jolly good sit down.”
In his 2007 memoir, Brand claimed his dad Ron paid for him to lose his virginity at a brothel when he was just 17 years old.
He wrote: “The episode that defined my relationship with women occurred in Hong Kong with my dad. I was 17. On day one we went to some sleazy dive.
“Before long I was sat on a bar stool with a Filipino called Mary-Lou. Then we were leaving in a cab with three Asian prostitutes my dad was drunkenly herding.
“Back in the hotel, my dad set about unwrapping his two prostitutes. I sat on the edge of the other twin bed. She must have known I was a virgin as soon as the bungling encounter commenced.”
Users couldn’t believe what they were reading, with one saying they “shuddered” while re-reading the section from Brand’s book. Another replied: “There’s lots of examples of awful behaviour in that book.” While a third said: “This is horrific.”
Brand is currently under investigation over two further rape allegations – and Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said his officers are braced for “many, many more” possible victims to come forward.
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