Suzanne Harrington: Keep greasing us with your sincerity, Russell

Two similarly aged teens enjoying each other's company exists in a different galaxy from a teen and an adult twice their age
Brand will go on trial in the UK later this year for multiple allegations of rape and sexual assault. Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Brand will go on trial in the UK later this year for multiple allegations of rape and sexual assault. Picture: Yui Mok/PA Wire

Why, if you are already up to your neck in rape allegations, would you broadcast how you’d had sex with a teenager when you were twice her age?

Talking to ex-Fox News presenter Megyn Kelly on YouTube, ex-human being Russell Brand said how he’d had “consensual” sex with a 16-year-old when he was 30. He described this as “selfish” and “exploitative”.

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