Ex-Girlfriend Says Russell Brand Wanted to Marry Someone Famous in Netflix Film
Jordan Martin, who dated Russell Brand in 2007, says in a new Netflix documentary that he always wanted to marry someone famous. Brand was sentenced to 10 years and six months this month for rape and sexual assault.
Jordan Martin, an ex-girlfriend of Russell Brand, says in a Netflix documentary released November 13 that the comedian married Katy Perry because he always wanted to marry someone famous. The new claims about Russell Brand’s marriage come days after he was jailed for rape and sexual assault.
Brand was sentenced to 10 years and six months. He was convicted of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others. He is being held at HMP Wandsworth, a Category B men’s local prison in London.
The documentary is called Russell Brand: Open Secret. Martin dated Brand in 2007, before his relationship with Perry.
“He’s doing exactly what he always wanted to do and be married to someone famous, which he always said he would be,” Martin says in the film.
She also claims Brand once told her, “I should be dating somebody more famous than you.” Martin alleges he asked her to join him in Hawaii, where he was filming Forgetting Sarah Marshall, because he wanted someone there to stop him from trying it on with people on set.
She further alleges that on that trip he said she was “dressing like an attention-seeking tart” and that he “didn’t feel comfortable” with her sunbathing.
The film also features testimony from other former partners, including Amanda Alguero Alejos and Georgina Baillie. Anonymous industry figures, Brand’s old roommates and journalists appear too. It traces his rise from early TV fame to the criminal trial.
Brand and Perry met in 2008 on the set of the comedy film Get Him to the Greek. They married in India in 2010. Brand filed for divorce 14 months later, reportedly texting Perry on New Year’s Eve that he wanted to split. The divorce was finalized in July 2012.
Perry, now 42, described Brand as “controlling” in a 2013 interview, soon after the divorce. “He didn’t like the atmosphere of me being the boss on tour,” she said.
She called the result of the marriage “really hurtful” and said she felt “a lot of responsibility” for its end until she “found out the real truth.” Perry said she had not spoken to him since the day in 2011 he texted her about the divorce.
On November 12, a day before the documentary came out, The Times and The Sunday Times published sexual misconduct allegations from six additional women.
Comedian Noel Fielding has said he was “unaware” of Brand’s crimes. Old jokes by Brand that he called “appalling” have resurfaced.
Support in Australia is available from 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732), the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service.
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