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I once spent a sweaty evening in a yoga studio with Russell Brand<\/strong>. Since I signed an NDA, the most I can say is that he opened up at least two of my chakras. But I hasten to add that it was all consensual \u2013 which is different from what four women are saying happened between 2006-2013. They have come forward as part of the UK\u2019s Channel 4 <\/em>show Dispatches<\/em><\/strong> (part of a joint investigation with The Sunday Times<\/em> and The Times<\/em>). The accusers are not pressing legal charges\u2026yet. The first one claims Brand raped her against the wall of a building. She went to a rape crisis center and sent Brand a text message saying, \u201cWhen a girl say NO it means no.\u201d His response? \u201cvery sorry.\u201d A second gal claims she was emotionally and sexually assaulted during their three-month relationship \u2013 and adds that Russell once \u201cforced his penis down her throat\u201d. A third says Brand sexually assaulted her when they were working together, and he threatened her with legal action. The fourth woman doesn\u2019t go into specific details. Media sources have unearthed interviews from other women about Russell \u2013 such as Katy Perry <\/strong>calling him \u201cvery controlling\u201d and Dannii Minogue <\/strong>saying, \u201cHe is completely crazy and a bit of a vile predator\u201d.<\/p>\n Brand then went public with a statement of his own. \u201cThese allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I\u2019ve written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous. Now during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then \u2013 almost too transparent \u2013 and I\u2019m being transparent about it now as well.\u201d Intriguingly, while the show was airing on Channel 4<\/em>, Brand was performing to a sold-out audience in London. The next day, networks scrubbed all footage of Russell off their servers, and YouTube <\/em>(where Russell makes roughly a million dollars a year) stopped monetizing his videos. It isn\u2019t all bad news \u2013 Channel 4 <\/em>got a flurry of complaints from viewers who felt the show was \u201cunfair\u201d. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I once spent a sweaty evening in a yoga studio with Russell Brand. Since I signed an NDA, the most I can say is that he opened up at least two of my chakras. But I hasten to add that it was all consensual \u2013 which is different from what four women are saying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91832"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91833,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91832\/revisions\/91833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}