Jemima Goldsmith has publicly accused Russell Brand of “violence, coercive control and abuse” following his sentencing to more than a decade in prison for rape and sexual assault.
Goldsmith, 52, made the allegations Monday on X, hours after Brand, 51, received his sentence in a London courtroom. The film producer and screenwriter dated the comedian for roughly a year in 2013 before their split around September 2014, and she told followers she has not spoken with him since.
“I am in awe of the courageous women who came forward at Brand’s trial, told their stories, testified and ensured justice was done,” she wrote on the platform.
“I have had my own personal experience of his violence, coercive control and abuse,” Goldsmith alleged.
She recalled one specific incident from 2014, stating that she had called police to have Brand removed from her home during what she described as a violent episode. Goldsmith explained her silence at the time, writing, “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.”
Goldsmith emphasized that her own suffering was overshadowed by the experiences of Brand’s convicted victims. “Whilst my pain in relation to this, pales in comparison to what the women have testified in court have suffered, this was a difficult period in my life which has had a lasting impact,” she continued.
Beyond her personal disclosure, Goldsmith revealed she had played a behind-the-scenes role in exposing Brand’s conduct. “Over several years, I assisted the journalists who finally exposed him,” she wrote. She added that she had also committed to testifying about his abusiveness in court if the newspaper that published the victims’ accounts faced legal action from Brand.
Brand’s sentencing Monday capped a trial that saw him convicted Thursday of rape and three counts of sexual assault. The charges spanned more than a decade of alleged predatory behavior toward multiple women.
In the earliest known incident, Brand assaulted a woman by grabbing her breasts at a London bar in 2004. Around that same period, he also assaulted women while at London’s Choice FM studio. The most severe conviction stemmed from a 2009 attack at his London home, where he raped a woman anally after they had initially had consensual intercourse following his comedy show at the Hammersmith Apollo theater. The victim testified that he “hurt” and “harmed” her and refused to stop when she asked. A separate 2009 charge involved him placing his head on a woman’s groin area without consent during a Channel 4 project.
Brand had pleaded not guilty to all charges. His personal life drew significant tabloid attention during his peak fame years: he married pop star Katy Perry in 2010, with the marriage ending in 2012, before wedding Laura Gallacher in 2017. He and Gallacher share three children.
Goldsmith’s statement arrived as the latest in a series of public reckonings surrounding Brand’s conduct, amplifying the voices of the women whose courtroom testimony secured his conviction.
