Russell Brand says sex is a big reason why he wanted to be famous in the first place ... and he claims he would never have sex with someone without their consent.
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00:00Russell Brand who is reacting even more to the charges that he's facing now in the UK
00:06We told you that he was hit with four different counts of sexual assault from cases dating back to
00:141999 he said that he has never been involved in anything but consensual sex
00:20So he's denying the allegations and says he's looking forward to his day in court. So we had a live stream this morning
00:26He was on his live stream and he didn't
00:29I don't know that this is what he's gonna say on the stand if he takes the stand
00:34But this is him explaining why I guess this is explanation for why he's had nothing but consensual
00:40It's difficult not to reflect that indeed the people participating in this are victims of a type
00:47But not victims of me because I've always been open you can go and watch my stand-up comedy
00:53You can read my book
00:54I couldn't have been more clear that I was out there having sex with anybody who wanted to and let me tell you when you're
01:00A famous guy people are up for it. People are up for it. I gotta be honest
01:05Yeah, that's part of reason I even bothered becoming famous in the first place because I thought this will be a glorious opportunity for hedonistic adventure
01:12surely then my life will mean something surely I can find some value in the comfort of
01:18Strangers surely I can lose myself in endless pleasure. He is still obviously denying that he ever, you know sexually assaulted anyone
01:26But the weird thing is that he does keep circling back in his defense and talking about how you know during this period of his life
01:32He was on drugs. He was he was drinking a lot
01:35He was partying and to me it kind of makes it seem like, you know, when people are in that type of state
01:40How does he know?
01:42Right that these things didn't happen because he might have been blacked out and just didn't remember that any of this happened
01:47What's interesting there? You heard him say he's like look the the people involved here may be victims. They're not victims of me
01:52So right, right. What are they victims of then?
01:55I and and you know, you didn't finish that and what he's saying again
01:58Like you said we have no idea if he's even going to take the stand
02:01Yeah
02:02then a lot of times it's more on the alleged victims being examined and cross-examined than it is him because
02:10Generally, they don't take the stand, right?
02:12And by the way, if he sounds relaxed there he certainly looks it as well over the weekend
02:18He was out with his family in Florida on the beach looking completely unbothered by this
02:23He is denying it and just going ahead live in his life