{"id":214517,"date":"2023-09-19T10:07:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T10:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/?p=214517"},"modified":"2023-09-19T10:07:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T10:07:09","slug":"danniella-westbrook-is-slammed-for-defending-russell-brand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestwnews.com\/celebrities\/danniella-westbrook-is-slammed-for-defending-russell-brand\/","title":{"rendered":"Danniella Westbrook is slammed for defending Russell Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"
Danniella Westbrook sparked outrage on Monday after defending ‘kind and funny’ Russell Brand as he fights multiple allegations of rape, sexual assault and predatory behaviour.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Brand is battling to save his career\u00a0following a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches into the comedian’s conduct around women at the height of his mainstream TV fame.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The 48-year-old has been accused of rape, sexual assaults and emotional abuse during a seven-year period between 2006 and 2013, as well as allegations of controlling, abusive and predatory behaviour,\u00a0<\/p>\n
And Westbrook was among a minority of supporters to publicly defend the father-of-two while commenting on a recent YouTube\u00a0video in which he denies any wrongdoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Posting on Sunday, before the Dispatches expose aired at 9:00pm, she wrote: ‘Its disgusting what’s being said about you. Never in my life have I met a more helpful kind and funny person.<\/p>\n
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Speaking out: Danniella Westbrook sparked outrage on Monday after defending ‘kind and funny’ Russell Brand as he fights allegations of rape, sexual assault and predatory behaviour<\/p>\n
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Under fire:\u00a0Brand is battling to save his career following a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4 Dispatches into the comedian’s conduct around women<\/p>\n
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‘Because you speak the truth and question agendas of certain things doesn’t make you a target to be lied about . Wishing you the best we all know its lies. Sending love always mate.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
The post prompted inevitable backlash, with commentators admitting they were surprised to see a woman supporting the comedian so publicly.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Responding to Westbrook, one Instagram user wrote: ‘Just because it didn’t happen to you it doesn’t mean it didn’t happen to anyone else.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘There is clear footage out there to show how he has portrayed HIMSELF and he has been proven sexually harass women.. Why can’t that be enough not to be accept his behaviour. I’m shocked you’re here in support of him.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
A second added: ‘And this is why our daughters are unsafe. Rape apologists.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Weighing into the argument, a third wrote: ‘An abusive partner will be nice to family and friends, a murderer doesn’t murder every person they meet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Because someone is nice to others, doesn’t mean those who come forward are liars. Have you heard of coercive control? Power? This is a ridiculous mentality.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another commented: ‘When will you people realize that just because someone treats you kindly doesn\u2019t mean they\u2019re incapable of being abusive predators to others. Humans are complex.<\/p>\n
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Not happy:\u00a0The post prompted inevitable backlash, with commentators admitting they were surprised to see a woman supporting the comedian so publicly<\/p>\n
Hello there you awakening wonders. Now this is not the usual type of video we make on this channel where we critique, attack and undermine the news in all its corruption because in this story I am the news.<\/p>\n
I have received two extremely disturbing letters – or a letter and an email – one from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks, as well as some pretty stupid stuff, like my community festival should be stopped and I shouldn’t be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel.<\/p>\n
But amidst this litany of astonishing rather baroque attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute. These allegations pertain to a time when I was in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I’ve written about extensively in my books I was very, very promiscuous.<\/p>\n
During that time of promiscuity the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then, almost too transparent, and I am being transparent about it now as well.<\/p>\n
And to see that transparency metastasized into something criminal that I absolutely deny makes me question is there another agenda at play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Particularly when we have seen coordinated media attacks before, like Joe Rogan where he dared to take a medicine the mainstream media didn’t approve of and we saw a spate of headlines of media outlets around the world using the same language.<\/p>\n
I am aware that you guys in the comments have been for a while saying ‘watch out Russell, they’re coming for you,’ ‘you are getting too close to the truth’, ‘Russell Brand did not kill himself’.’<\/p>\n
I know a year ago there was a spate of articles: Russell Brand is a conspiracy theorists; Russell Brand is right wing.<\/p>\n
I am aware of newspapers making phone calls, sending letters to people I know. For ages and ages, it’s been clear to me or at least feels to be there’s a serious and consorted agenda to control these kinds of spaces and these kind of voices.<\/p>\n
I need my voice along with your voice. I don’t mind them using my books and my stand up to talk about my promiscuous sexual conduct in the past. What I seriously refute are these very, very serious, criminal allegations.<\/p>\n
Also its worth mentioning that there are witnesses whose evidence directly contradicts the narratives that these two mainstream media outlets are trying to construct, apparently in what seems to be to me a coordinated attack.<\/p>\n
Now, I don’t want to get into this any further because of the serious nature of the allegations but I feel like I’m being attacked and plainly they are working very closely together.<\/p>\n
We are obviously going to look into this matter because it is very, very serious.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In the meantime, I want you to stay close, stay awake but more importantly than any of that, if you can stay free.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘His treatment of you and your thoughts about him doesn\u2019t negate and override his treatment of his alleged victims. I\u2019ve read and heard what they had to say and I believe them. They\u2019re not looking for anything but the truth and a recognition that this man hurt them.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Westbrook wasn’t alone in defending the comic, with Jo Wood – the ex-wife of Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood – also offering support via social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Taking to Instagram, she wrote: ‘Keep your frequency up @russellbrand it\u2019s because you are a threat!’\u00a0<\/p>\n
Elsewhere photographer Benjamin Brown posted: ‘Isn\u2019t it still \u2018innocent until proven guilty\u2019? So many people projecting their emotional reactions, formulating opinions is one thing but people forget this basic human right – INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY.\u00a0<\/p>\n
‘Regardless, the truth you share is bound to get you into who know what kind of trouble, money corrupts most people and that\u2019s the way the system is designed, good luck and God\u2019s speed, I\u2019ll be praying for you.’\u00a0<\/p>\n
After Brand was hit with accusations of rape and sexual assault, more women have come forward with allegations about how he has treated them, it has emerged.<\/p>\n
The Times and Sunday Times claim ‘several women’ have come forward with undisclosed allegations about Brand’s behaviour during the early 2000s in wake of their joint investigation with Channel 4 which was published on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The latest allegations – which the newspaper says have not been investigated, but will now be ‘rigorously checked’.<\/p>\n
The BBC is now also facing ‘urgent questions’ after it was claimed that Brand used his company-provided car service to pick the girl up from school.<\/p>\n
It comes as both BBC and Channel 4 have launched internal investigations into separate accusations of predatory behaviour by Brand towards staff and audience members during the time of his employment.<\/p>\n
Channel 4 has since removed all programmes linked to Brand from its website, including episodes of The Great British Bake Off and Big Brother’s Big Mouth in which he was featured, The Daily Telegraph reported.<\/p>\n
Netflix has since been urged to remove his comedy special, titled Re:Birth, from its streaming catalogue.<\/p>\n
The maverick actor and stand-up comic has strenuously denied any wrongdoing and blamed the ‘mainstream media’ for the ‘litany of astonishing rather baroque attacks’.<\/p>\n