Russell Brand sentenced to 10 years in prison for rape. Ex-wife Katy Perry once said, 'He should be in jail.’ A look at their one-year marriage, which ended through a text

Russell Brand has been sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison for raping a fan. He had also been found guilty of assaulting three other women. In light of the disgraced British entertainer’s impending imprisonment, an old interview of his ex-wife Katy Perry has been doing the rounds on the Internet. In an interview with Vogue, the I Kissed A Girl hitmaker claimed that Russell, whom she was married to for 14 months, was very controlling with her.

She revealed that he did not like the idea of her being a boss and having a successful career. “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,” she said.

She also said he humiliated her in public. She had attended one of his shows to surprise him and caught him making jokes about her. “He didn’t know I was in the audience because I had come to surprise him at one of his shows. So. Hysterical to a point. I mean, I have to claim my own responsibility in things. I do admit that I was on the road a lot. Although I invited him time and time again, and I tried to come home as much as I possibly could,” she said.


The couple met in 2009, on the sets of Get Him To The Greek, where she played a cameo. They got engaged in India that same year. tied the knot in 2010 but had a famously short marriage. Russell informed the Roar hitmaker that he was divorcing her through a curt text message in 2011. The divorce was finalised in 2012.

Some years later, in a concert in London, a fan asked her how she would react if she ran into her ex-husband, to which the singer joked, "I hope my ex isn't here. He should be in jail!"

Jemima Goldsmith Accuses Him Of Abuse

Socialite Jemima Goldsmith, who dated him for a while, recently took to social media to reveal that he was abusive to her when they were together. She claimed he was violent, coercive, and abusive. She had to call the police to remove him from her house during an altercation when he got violent in 2014 but chose not to press charges.

Goldmith, who was once married to Pakistani former PM Imran Khan, said that she did not press charges, as she did not want negative attention on her two sons. “Whilst my pain in relation to this pales in comparison to what the women who have testified in court have suffered, this was a difficult period in my life which has had a lasting impact,” she wrote on X.