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Emily Maitlis calls Russell Brand's past response 'chilling'
Emily Maitlis says Russell Brand's 2017 Newsnight remark about his daughter being 'chilling' after his rape conviction.
In brief
Emily Maitlis says Russell Brand's 2017 Newsnight remark about his daughter being 'chilling' after his rape conviction. Emily Maitlis described Russell Brand's 2017 Newsnight response to a question about his daughter's potential reaction to his lifestyle as 'chilling' following his recent rape convictions. Originally…
Russell Brand's 2017 Newsnight interview
Emily Maitlis asked Russell Brand about his daughter's potential reaction to his promiscuous lifestyle during a 2017 Newsnight interview.
“When you look back at that promiscuous lifestyle, do you think does that appal you?”
Brand's response to question
Brand said he didn't 'get all worked up' about the past and thought he'd 'amended' for what he'd done before.
“No, my dear. I don't look back at the past and get all worked up about it like Ebenezer Scrooge. I simply think those are some things I've done. I've amended for them.”
Brand's rape conviction
Southwark Crown Court found Russell Brand guilty of rape and sexual assault in 2009 and 2004.
“Russell Brand was found guilty of raping a fan he'd met after a show at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2009, and guilty of sexually assaulting a woman at a bar in Soho in 2004”
Brand's legal outcome
Brand was found guilty on four of seven counts but acquitted on two rape and one indecent assault charge.
“He was found not guilty of two counts of rape and one count of indecent assault”
Brand's defense argument
Brand claimed treating women unkindly before, during or after sex wasn't criminal and consent was lawful.
“It is not criminal to treat women unkindly before, during or after sex. It is not, I am afraid, criminal to be disrespectful or rude or to act like a crazy idiot. If there is consent it is lawful.”
Maitlis's reflection
Maitlis described Brand's case as a story of sexual abuse by powerful men who are not held accountable.
“It is a story of sexual abuse we have now heard so many times of frankly men who have become so powerful and so entitled that no one dares speak out against them”
Here's the gist
Emily Maitlis described Russell Brand's 2017 Newsnight response to a question about his daughter's potential reaction to his lifestyle as 'chilling' following his recent rape convictions.
