Russell Brand’s ex Jemima Khan alleges she was controlled by “violent” comedian

Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison, after he was found guilty of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.

The 51-year-old was accused of seven offences spanning 10 years of his career from 1999 to 2009. All of which he denied.

Jemima Khan, now Jemima Goldsmith is an English TV and film producer and screenwriter. She took to X (previously Twitter) to document her experiences.

"I am going to describe some painful and personal things in relation to Russell Brand because I have been put in a position now where I feel that I have no choice other than to do so, given the misleading reports and speculation around the facts of a harassment injunction that was taken out to protect me and my family," she said yesterday.

"I have had my own personal experience of his violence, coercive control and abuse.

"I had to call the police to have him removed from my house in 2014 during a violent incident. I chose not to press charges at the time and not to go public with this, as I was worried about the impact of the press attention on my then teenage children. I have neither seen nor spoken to Brand since that period in 2014."

She said that her pain "pales" in what the women have testified in court have suffered, but it "was a difficult period in my life which has had a lasting impact."

She also claims she helped journalists, Ros Urwin, Louisa Compton and Dorothy Byrne help expose him. 

"I also undertook to testify in court to his abusiveness, if the newspaper that published the victims’ accounts were ever to be sued. I have spent much of my professional career trying to support unfairly demonised and silenced women, such as Monica Lewinsky and defending free speech," she wrote.

She ended that she has not "seen or spoken to him in over a decade. I hope this information will help clarify speculation about my involvement in the anti-harassment order. I am glad and relieved that Russell Brand has finally faced justice."