Trigger Warning: This article includes discussion of alleged sexual assault, with details.
Jemima Goldsmith has broken her silence about her troubled relationship with Russell Brand, alleging that she experienced “violence, coercive control and abuse” while they were together. Her comments come hours after the 51-year-old comedian received a 10-year-and-six-month prison sentence on November 9 for raping a woman and sexually assaulting three others.
Russell Brand’s ex Jemima Goldsmith speaks out after his ten-year sentence
The 52-year-old producer took to X to share a lengthy statement about Brand. Goldsmith, who dated him for roughly a year around 2014, expressed her support for his victims. She emphasized that she had “always been strongly and unequivocally on the side of all of Brand’s victims.”
The post further read, “I am in awe of the courageous women who came forward at Brand’s trial, told their stories, testified, and ensured justice was done. I have had my own personal experience of his violence, coercive control, and abuse.” Goldsmith recalled calling the police in 2014 after a violent incident involving Brand. She asked them to remove him from her house. However, she chose not to pursue legal action or make the incident public. She wanted to protect her children, who were teenagers at the time, from unwanted press attention.
Brand was convicted after a four-week trial at Southwark Crown Court. As previously reported, the allegations concerned incidents spanning 1999 to 2009. The allegations included grabbing a woman’s breasts at a Soho party in 2004, sexually assaulting another woman at radio station Choice FM in 2004 or 2005, raping a woman at his Hampstead home in 2009, and sexually assaulting a woman during a Channel 4 production in 2009.
The women involved have remained anonymous, and the trial was not televised.
If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).
