The woman who accuses Russell Brand of grooming and sexually assaulting her when she was 16 claims she was picked up at school and taken to the actor’s home on BBC Pay car to perform sex acts.
The Sunday Times’ latest bombshell comes as the BBC announces it is “urgently investigating” matters relating to the much-criticized British comedian’s time at the network, in a news report shared with The Times of London and Channel 4 Express came together to reveal the allegations against Brand.
The star’s victim told the news outlet she recalled being driven by a teenager to and from Brand’s home in north London in a chauffeur-driven car, which was paid for by the company.
The woman, who goes by the pseudonym Alice, said her first ride in a BBC car was when it was originally booked to take Brand to one of his radio shows.
“But he had a friend to take him, so I was supposed to use that car,” she said, adding that one day a BBC driver took her from Bland’s house to her grandmother’s house.
“Then when the car picked me up from school it was the same car… I knew it was a BBC car,” she told the Sunday Times.
Alice is one of four women who have accused Bland of rape, sexual assault and abuse.
Brand has strenuously denied the accusations.
According to initial reports, Alice claimed she was 16 when the then-31-year-old star called her a “kid” and attacked her during a three-month “emotionally abusive and controlling” relationship.
She was above the legal age of consent in the UK at the time.
Alice also accused Bland of once “forcing his penis down her throat” and suffocating her, before allegedly punching him in the stomach to get him to stop.
Brand, 48, worked for the BBC radio show between 2006 and 2008, with the shocking allegations in the Sunday Times report covering 2006 to 2013.
“The documentary and associated reporting contain serious allegations spanning several years. Russell Brand worked on BBC Radio between 2006 and 2008 and we are urgently investigating the matters raised.” BBC the spokesman said.
Sources told the news outlet that network staff warned boss Brand at least three times about bad work behavior, including accusations that he exposed himself to female employees and had sex with guests on his radio show.
Brand resigned from the BBC in 2008 after he and Jonathan Ross, a guest on Brand’s show, left Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs after he failed to grant an interview. An offensive voicemail in which Ross reportedly said Brand slept with Sacks’ granddaughter. .
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