Russell Brand can be seen joking about his previous arrest to Jonathan Ross in an unearthed clip in which he appears on the comedy star’s ITV chat show alongside Lindsday Lohan
Russell Brand can be seen joking about a previous arrest to Jonathan Ross in an unearthed clip.
The comedian, 51, was sentenced to 10 years in jail for rape and sexual assault but had previously had brushes with the law beforehand during his troubled younger years and was arrested for criminal damage in the US in 2012.
During an appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show alongside Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan in 2014, the host said: “But you’ve never been jailed for your behaviour.”
Brand replied: “Sometimes they would leave me in police cells for a while, and I didn’t like that very much. It’s tiresome in there, it’s lonely, it’s hard to build rapport.”
Speaking about an incident in New Orleans, where he had been working on a film, she then turned to the Mean Girls star, who had previously own legal troubles.
She looked somewhat uncomfortable as he said: “It’s worse getting arrested in your country! Everyone else had an orange boiler suit on, I felt so left out.”
The star appeared to be joking about the time he was arrested after throwing a photographer’s iPhone through a window. He was released on bail and then sentenced to community service.
Comparing the police in the UK favourably to those in the US, he added: “The police are so much much more friendly. For a start in our country we cuff the hands in front not behind the back.
“The police cars, all crunched up in there. They took all my drugs from me. In fact it’s boring in the cell, that’s when you need drugs to take the edge off. Cruel really.”
Lindsay then spoke about spending 14 days in her cell in the summer of 2010, admitting that she “made a mistake” by violating her probation and failing to turn up to alcohol education classes after being caught DUI.
Speaking of her crime, she said: “That’s not the right thing to do, but to put someone in that position, it was very scary, very jarring.”
The interview resurfaced amid Brand’s recent trial, which saw him being sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison for raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others.
Judge Joel Bennathan denounced Brand’s “casual and arrogant disregard” for any woman who said no to him, and castigated him for the series of lies he told in testimony denying assaults that dated to 2004.
Following the sentencing, Ross released a statement on his previous relationship with Brand. He said: “I am as horrified by the revelations about David Walliams and the crimes of Russell Brand as the rest of the nation.
“There was a time in my life when I was on friendly terms with both men, and during that period I was genuinely unaware of their conduct. My thoughts are with the many, many women who have bravely come forward.”
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