Whenever allegations like those against Russell Brand come to light, a reliable contingent of observers questions why a survivor might hesitate to speak out or choose not to go to the police, writes Holly Thomas, who argues that reactions to Brand’s accusers amplifies why much of the answer to that unfair question is, sadly, evergreen.
Last weekend, British media outlets The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4’s “Dispatches” published a joint investigation in which four women claimed the comedian, actor and YouTube sensation Russell Brand had sexually assaulted them in separate instances between 2006 and 2013. One of the alleged victims was just 16 at the time. The Times reporting includes text messages apparently sent between Brand and one of his accusers, in which she tells him: “When a girl say[s] NO it means no.
During a comedy performance in Northampton in 2008, Brand made a prank phone call to local police saying he’d seen a man responsible for a string of assaults. The police didn’t bring charges. Later that year, along with TV presenter Johnathan Ross, he used his BBC Radio 2 show to make another prank call, this time to the British actor Andrew Sachs.
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