Elon Musk has weighed in after Russell Brand pre-emptively denied some ‘very serious criminal allegations’ that are set to emerge about him.
Brand released a video last night in which he vehemently denied the as-yet-unknown allegations, which he claims have been brought by a TV company and a newspaper.
Posting on X and his YouTube channel, Brand said that he’d ‘received two extremely disturbing letters or a letter and an email.’
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Admitting to having been ‘very promiscuous’ in his past, he argued that those relationships he had were ‘always consensual’.
Brand went on to say that he was facing some ‘very serious allegations that I refute’, all whilst not disclosing the specifics of those allegations.
In the video – of which we’ll put a full transcript below – Brand suggested that there is an agenda against him, as well as categorically denying the allegations that are set to be made against him.
The idea of an agenda from the mainstream media and news companies seems to have piqued the interest of Elon Musk, who used his own X account to comment.
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“Of course, they don’t like competition,” the billionaire wrote.
It’s not clear exactly what he meant by that, but perhaps we can get a better understanding by looking into exactly what Brand said.
In his video, titled ‘So, This is Happening’ Brand said: "Now, this isn't 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.
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"I've 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, that I shouldn't be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel.
"But amidst this litany of astonishing rather baroque attacks, are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute.
"These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream, when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies. As I've written about extensively in my books, I was very, very promiscuous.
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"Now, 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'm being transparent about it now as well.
"And to see that transparency metastasized into something criminal that I absolutely deny makes me question, is there another agenda at play?
"Particularly when we've seen coordinated media attacks before, like with Joe Rogan, when he dared to take a medicine that the mainstream media didn't approve of, and we saw a spate of headlines from media outlets across the world using the same language."
He continued: "I'm aware that you guys have been saying in the comments for a while 'watch out, Russell. They're coming for you, you're getting too close to the truth, Russell Brand did not kill himself'.
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"I know that a year ago there was a spate of articles - Russell Brand's a conspiracy theorist, Russell Brand's right wing. I'm aware of news media making phone calls, sending letters to people I know for ages and ages.
"It's being clear to me, or at least it feels to me like there's a serious and concerted agenda to control these kind of spaces and these kind of voices. And I mean, my voice along with your voice.
"I don't mind them using my books and my stand-up to talk about my promiscuous consensual conduct in the past. What I seriously refute are these very, very serious criminal allegations.
"Also, it's worth mentioning that there are witnesses whose evidence directly contradicts the narrative that these two mainstream media outlets are trying to construct, apparently, in what seems to me to be a coordinated attack.
"Now, I don't wanna get into this any further because of the serious nature of the allegations, but I feel like I'm being attacked and plainly they're working very closely together. We are obviously going to look into this matter 'cause it's very, very serious.
"In the meantime, I want you to stay close, stay awake, but more important than any of that, if you can, please stay free."
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