Disgraced former comedian and actor Russell Brand allegedly forced a girl, then 16, against the headboard of a bed and orally raped her, when he was 30 years old
Russell Brand allegedly raped a 16-year-old girl after “forcing her” against the headboard of a bed. A woman who, during an ITV documentary about the convicted rapist, has now waived her right to anonymity and shared how she was treated by the disgraced comedian.
Mia Latter, aged just 16, embarked on a relationship with Brand, who was 30. Mia, who in a Channel 4 documentary was known as Alice, has now said that adults shouldn’t be allowed to enter relationships with people under the age of 18.
In 2023, as part of a joint investigation by The Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches, Brand faced accusations of sexual misconduct involving multiple women. On Monday, he was sentenced to 10 and a half years behind bars after being found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.
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Waiving her right to anonymity, Mia, now 27, in an interview with The Sunday Times, claimed: “He ended up forcing me against the headboard [of the bed], and I couldn’t move, and he orally raped me – and I was choking and crying. I was trying to push him off, so he knew that I didn’t want him to be doing that, and so then I ended up having to hit him in the stomach to get him off. I’ve never hit anyone [before] and … he said: ‘I just wanted to see your mascara run.'” Their relationship lasted three months.
In a previous interview, she alleged that Brand had given her the nickname “The Child”. Mia claims that she was transported in BBC-supplied vehicles from school to Brand’s home.
During an appearance on BBC Radio 4’s Women’s Hour, broadcaster Emma Barnett asked Mia, then known as Emily: “There is a specific allegation that I wanted to ask you about that the BBC is now investigating. And that is that a BBC car was sent to collect you, I believe, is it on a number of occasions, to go and see Russell Brand. Can you tell me a bit more about that?”
Mia responded: “He had two car accounts. We weren’t Ubering then. He had an Addison Lee car account, and then he had I don’t think, I don’t know if he had the account of the BBC that he had for us too.
“But the BBC would arrange cars for him, and so he would, you know, I’d seen him previously be picked up from his house by BBC cars. So I knew the difference. And also it was a chauffeur-driven car.
“It was different than just calling a cab. He previously, he had a friend who was taking him to do his radio show so he said to me, you get in the car and you go wherever you need to. So he said to me “You get in the car and you go wherever you need to go from there’. So I took the BBC car that time and on another occasion, it picked me up from school.”
When asked whether she believed it was a BBC car that picked her up from school to take her to meet Brand, Mia replied: “It was back to his house.” She told The Sunday Times: “Adults shouldn’t be allowed to have sexual relationships with children. We all sort of agree that that’s wrong; most of us [know] that adults shouldn’t be allowed to have sexual relationships with children, with somebody under the age of 18.
“That really, really doesn’t seem like a gigantic leap to take. So I think we need to start having the conversation about a staggered age of consent. It works in lots of other places.”
If you’ve been the victim of sexual assault, you can access help and resources via www.rapecrisis.org.uk or calling the national telephone helpline on 0808 802 9999
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