A new Netflix documentary about comedian Russell Brand also includes claims from his former girlfriend about his marriage to Katy Perry.
Netflix announced the documentary on Thursday, November 12, one day before it premiered on Friday. The announcement came days after Brand was sentenced on Monday to 10 years and six months in prison.
In Russell Brand: Open Secret, his ex, Jordan Martin, says Brand had always wanted to marry someone famous. “He’s doing exactly what he always wanted to do and be married to someone famous,” she says.
Brand has not responded. The documentary says he was invited to reply through his lawyers.
Martin dated Brand in 2007, before he met Perry. She alleges he was preoccupied with fame even then. She says he once told her he should be dating someone more famous.
She also said he became controlling, criticised her clothes, objected to her sunbathing, and later admitted to sleeping with a yoga instructor. She also makes a serious allegation of sexual assault at a UK hotel. Her claims are separate from the charges on which Brand was convicted.
Brand, 51, and Perry, 42, began dating in 2009 and married in Rajasthan, India, in October 2010. The marriage lasted only a year as Brand filed for divorce in December 2011, which was finalised in July 2012.
In a 2013 Vogue interview, Perry said he told her by text on New Year’s Eve. She also described the marriage as “very controlling.”
The documentary, directed by Olivia Isaacs, comes days after Brand’s prison sentence. A London court found him guilty on November 5 of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault involving four women between 2004 and 2009.
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