Russell Brand shared an impassioned video to his YouTube Channel in which he denied unspecified “serious allegations” on Friday.
In the clip, which you can watch above, he said he’s received letters from two media outlets alleging “a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks.”
“But amidst this litany of astonishing rather baroque attacks, [there are] often very serious allegations that I absolutely refute,” the comedian told his followers.
He did not get into specifics but did reference being “promiscuous” in the past and insisted in the video that all his relationships have been consensual.
“As I’ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous,” he said. “Now, during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual.
“I don’t mind them using my books and my standup to talk about my promiscuous consensual conduct in the past,” he said. “What I seriously refute are these very, very serious criminal allegations. Also, it’s worth mentioning that there are witnesses whose evidence directly contradicts the narrative that these two mainstream media outlets are trying to construct, apparently, in what seems to me to be a coordinated attack.”
He does not name the outlets that are about to come out with the