Russell Brand ended marriage to Katy Perry with a textual content message

Katy Perry’s short-lived relationship with Russell Brand prompted a slew of headlines when the seemingly unlikely couple have been first linked again in 2009 – and much more after they broke up simply 14 months after their wedding ceremony.

The British comic, 48, has now been accused of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse through the top of his fame by 4 girls. The claims have been made in a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches.

Brand has strongly denied all of the “very serious allegations” made towards him, which date again to between 2006 and 2013, and has insisted that his previous relationships have been “absolutely always consensual”.

Perry, 38, has not addressed the allegations towards her former husband. However, she has spoken previously concerning the circumstances surrounding her break up from Brand, and beforehand revealed that he known as time on their relationship over textual content.

“He’s a very smart man, and I was in love with him when I married him,” Perry instructed Vogue in 2013. “Let’s just say I haven’t heard from him since he texted me saying he was divorcing me December 31, 2011.”

She added that had discovered Brand’s humour “hysterical in some ways”, till “he started making jokes about me and he didn’t know I was in the audience, because I had come to surprise him at one of his shows”.

“At first when I met him he wanted an equal, and I think a lot of times strong men do want an equal, but then they get that equal and they’re like, I can’t handle the equalness,” she continued. “He didn’t like the atmosphere of me being the boss on tour. So that was really hurtful, and it was very controlling, which was upsetting.

“I felt a lot of responsibility for it ending, but then I found out the real truth, which I can’t necessarily disclose because I keep it locked in my safe for a rainy day. I let go and I was like: This isn’t because of me; this is beyond me. So I have moved on from that.”

Perry additionally documented her break up from the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star in her live performance documentary Part of Me. One memorable scene from the movie confirmed the musician breaking down in tears after a row along with her husband, earlier than composing her face right into a smile moments earlier than occurring stage to carry out to a packed venue.

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Addressing their relationship this 12 months in Running Wild With Bear Grylls: The Challenge, Brand described Perry as an “amazing person” and stated that their romance got here at a “chaotic” time in his life.

“Aside from my sort of feelings of affection for Katy, it’s a time that I remember has been a little bit chaotic and a bit for me, to speak for myself, a little disconnected,” he stated.

The singer first met Brand backstage on the 2008 MTV VMAs ceremony, when he was presenting and filming scenes for the 2010 movie Get Him to the Greek.

At the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) the next 12 months, Perry reportedly threw a bottle at Brand’s head, and the pair have been romantically linked quickly after.

They married one 12 months later in a lavish ceremony on the Ranthambore Tiger Sanctuary in Rajasthan, India, with Brand arriving on the wedding ceremony on an elephant. They divorced in 2012, citing “irreconcilable differences”.

Brand is at the moment married to writer Laura Gallacher, the sister of Sky Sports broadcaster Kirsty. The couple have three kids collectively.

Perry, in the meantime, has been engaged to actor Orlando Bloom since 2019, and the couple are dad and mom to three-year-old daughter Daisy Dove.

The Independent has contacted Brand’s representatives for additional remark.

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