Brand’s not guilty plea comes after he initially spoke out to deny his charges on social media.
“I’ve always told you guys that when I was young and single, before I had my wife and family, who were just about a shot over there, my beautiful children, I was a fool, man,” he explained in a video shared to X April 4. “I was a fool before I lived in the light of the Lord. I was a drug addict, a sex addict and an imbecile, but what I never was, was a rapist.”
The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star had written a 2007 op-ed for The Guardian in which he openly admitted he did not “always treat women well,” however, he ascertained in his recent social media video that he “never engaged in non-consensual activity.”
Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service began investigating Brand’s alleged rape and sexual assault following a 2023 piece in the Sunday Times—in which he was accused of rape and sexual assault—as well as receiving reports directly to them.
