Russell Brand’s joke about being lonely in jail has resurfaced, drawing attention to a 2014 television appearance with Lindsay Lohan.
The exchange took place on The Jonathan Ross Show, where Brand appeared to refer to his 2012 arrest in New Orleans after he allegedly took a photographer’s phone.
Discussing his experience in police custody, Brand said: “Sometimes they would leave me in police cells for a while, I didn’t like that very much. It was tiresome, it was lonely, it’s hard to build rapport.”
He then told Lohan that it was “worse getting arrested in your country than it is in mine”. Lohan appeared uncomfortable during the conversation.
Lohan, who had several previous encounters with the law including arrests for driving under the influence and a felony grand theft charge, responded by describing her own experience of solitary confinement.
“I was actually in solitary confinement for 14 days,” she said. “Solitary confinement is actually very different, you leave your cell for one hour a day and you don’t go outside.”
Brand has denied criminal wrongdoing. He received a 10-year, six-month sentence following his rape conviction.
