Russell Brand appeared on his YouTube show after being convicted of rape and sexual assault, while his wife Laura Brand said his sentencing was “painful”.
Brand featured in a pre-recorded episode of Sunday Service released on Sunday, delivering an extended discussion about social morality following his criminal trial. The programme also included remarks from Laura about her husband going to prison.
During the episode, Brand said: “This is a culture that has a flexible and plastic morality because it needs to use it as a net for control, not because it’s an absolving balm with which to heal.”
He continued: “So when you become a person that no longer sort of thinks, ‘What am I supposed to do? What am I supposed to be?’ Where do you even get these ideas? … The culture.”
Laura Brand said she and her husband trusted their faith despite the circumstances. “We trust God, and we trust His plan and we trust everything he’s doing right now even though it’s painful,” she said.
She added: “It will take some getting used to not to have my person, my companion with me.”
Brand faces further accusations of sexual assault, while Russell and Laura Brand will not be able to have conjugal visits at the prison to which he was transferred. The facility does, however, offer weekly visitation.
