Woman says she was left 'bewildered and confused' by alleged Russell Brand assault
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Russell Brand was pictured outside court on Friday as he arrived for the third day of his trial Warning - this report contains graphic content A woman who alleges she was indecently assaulted by Russell Brand has told his trial she was left feeling "bewildered and confused".
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The woman, who worked at MTV at the time, said the entertainer went from "jovial" to a "wild-eyed maniac" as he attempted, she alleged, to pull her into a toilet.
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Brand, 51, faces seven charges in the trial - three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault and one of indecent assault.
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The allegations, made by six female complainants, span a 10-year period between 1999 and 2009.
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He denies the charges.
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The woman gave evidence on Friday from behind a screen at Southwark Crown Court in London, on the third day of Brand's trial. She told the jury the alleged incident at MTV lasted for about 20 seconds, adding: "It was a very short exchange."
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Asked how she felt after the alleged attack by Brand, the woman said: "Bewildered, confused, 'what the hell happened there?'" She said Brand went from someone who was "affable" to a "wild-eyed maniac trying to pull me into the toilet".
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"I was confused that that actually just happened - anyone would be," she said.
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The complainant told jurors on Friday she met Brand in 2001 when she worked at MTV.
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She said she recognised him straight away and said there was "banter" between them initially.
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After noticing his "distinctive T-shirt" with the words "I am Spartacus", she told Brand she "loved it" and wanted it.
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"He said, 'you can have it'", the woman told the jury, to which she said she replied: "Make sure it gets a good wash first."
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Brand then asked her for directions to the bathroom.
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The woman, who was in her thirties at the time, said she offered to show him the way because she was going in the same direction.
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Prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones KC asked her what happened next.
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She said his "demeanour changed" when they got to the bathroom door.
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"He grabbed my forearm, he was leaning into the door and he was quite forceful," she said, adding that it took her "unaware".
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Asked by the prosecutor what she meant by his demeanour changing, the witness said: "He grabbed me by the arm, started to pull me in."
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She said Brand then said to her "come on" while still holding her forearm.
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The woman said while Brand was trying to pull her into the bathroom, she was trying to pull herself away.
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"I said to him, 'What are you doing, are you mad, let me go'... and then he started to... plead almost," she said.
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The woman told the court she managed to "wrench" herself from Brand's grip because of her own strength.
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She told jurors Brand went from "jovial, affable, friendly to suddenly turning into this wild-eyed manic so I was quite confused this was happening, as anyone would be".
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Asked by the prosecutor why she did not report what had happened to her employer, she said: "I was scared...
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I thought it would be my word against his."
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But she did tell two of her colleagues, she said.
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Jurors heard that she reported the allegation to the police in 2023 after watching a Channel 4 documentary about Brand. "I thought it was the right thing to do to come forward," she told the court.
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Brand's barrister challenged the complainant on the fact that she did not report Brand for what he had allegedly done until after watching the documentary.
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"You didn't think there was any need to report him," Ian Winter KC said.
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"It would have been my word against his," she replied.
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"He didn't manage to rape me.
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I managed to get out of the situation."
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The defence barrister said: "It was only after you saw the television programme that you think he was trying to rape you in the toilet." The woman responded: "Why else would you drag someone into the toilet if you weren't going to assault them." Winter KC continued: "Twenty-two years before that, you hadn't thought he was trying to get you in there to rape you..."
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The woman denied that, adding: "You don't grab someone by the arm.
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You don't grip someone and try to drag them in, that's not consensual."
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You can follow the trial day by day on the BBC podcast Fame Under Fire: Russell Brand on Trial - available on BBC Sounds, YouTube, iPlayer, or wherever you get your BBC podcasts The woman was speaking after a former flatmate of Brand's, Andrew Dobson, earlier told the jury that "sex was a huge preoccupation" for the entertainer.
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Dobson gave evidence after another woman told the court on Thursday that Russell Brand raped her in a hotel room in Bournemouth in 1999. She said she had met Brand, before he was famous, while she was attending the Labour Party conference.
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Dobson told the court on Friday he attended the Bournemouth conference and had written music for a fringe event that Brand was part of.
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Karmy-Jones asked Dobson how he would describe Brand's character as he got to know him before he was famous.
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Dobson told the court Brand was a "very vibrant character, very egotistical".
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"I would say lively," he continued.
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"Sort of quite demanding and persuasive.
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I think erratic would be maybe a slightly better term."
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Dobson also told the court that "sex was a huge preoccupation for him", referring to Brand.
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He said he recalled a couple of nights when "clearly the pursuit of getting somebody in bed would be a preoccupation" for Brand. The jury heard that Dobson was staying in the same guesthouse with Brand and other cast members. The morning after Brand is alleged to have raped a woman, he returned to the place where some of the cast had been staying, the jury heard.
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Asked by the prosecutor to describe the "circumstances of how he came home", Dobson replied: "My primary recollection is very hurried and rushed...
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I recall Russell coming in and suddenly an urgency we had to leave, things being really hurried".
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The prosecutor asked the witness: "Where did urgency come from?"
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Dobson replied: "I can't recall anything specific that was said.
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I only remember the atmosphere and panicked, urgent. Feeling tense and confusing."
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He went on to tell the jury there had been an "abrupt change of atmosphere" from what had been a "fun week" to an "abrupt change of tone".
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Under cross-examination by Brand's barrister, it was put to Dobson that in his witness statement he said that Brand was one of few men he knew that women would swoon over. Dobson replied: "He was certainly charismatic". Brand denies all the charges and has pleaded not guilty.
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He has said that any sexual contact if it happened, would have been consensual.
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Russell Brand accuser says he turned 'monster-like' before alleged rape
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