Russell Brand‘s ex-girlfriend has said he sexually assaulted her and made her brush her teeth until her mouth bled during their relationship, because he wanted her to ‘taste anonymous’.
The claims, part of a new Netflix documentary released today, come after the convicted rapist was sentenced to ten years and six months in prison for assaults on four women.
Russell Brand: Open Secret was released today, with Netflix announcing the film will follow Brand, 51, ‘from comedy stardom to a criminal trial’.
The film features inside voices and archive footage providing insight into Brand’s life and the investigation run by The Times and The Sunday Times, through their Chief News Correspondent, Rosamund Urwin and Investigations Correspondent, Charlotte Wace.
It comes after it was reported today that six more women have come forward to accused Brand of sexual misconduct and predatory behaviour.
Brand was jailed for ten-and-a-half years at Southwark Crown Court on Monday after being convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.
The documentary hears from Brand’s former girlfriend, Jordan Martin, who said she was in ‘quite a vulnerable place’ at the time she dated the disgraced comedian, having just split up with her husband.
‘I’d given up on love,’ she said.
The then-26-year-old described how he would make her brush her teeth until they bled and once sexually assaulted her during a fit of jealous rage.
Jordan Martin was tearful as she recounted how Russell Brand sexually assaulted her and made her brush her teeth until her mouth bled
Netflix have announced a new documentary film charting the story of Russell Brand’s ‘meteoric rise and steep fall’
‘He wanted me to taste anonymous. He didn’t want me to be familiar to him. And so he was asking me to brush my teeth.
‘But it just was never enough. And so he’s standing over me, and I’m brushing and I’m brushing, and I see my teeth bleeding, and the association with…’
At this point, Ms Martin became too upset to continue and asked for a break.
On another occasion, Ms Martin described being in a hotel in the UK with Brand when she spoke to a former partner using her phone to arrange to pick up a bag of belongings he still had.
When Brand discovered who she had been speaking to, Ms Martin said: ‘He snatched my phone out my hand and like broke it apart into pieces. So I kind of snatched the phone back and went into a separate room.’
She went on, tearfully: ‘He walked in, he didn’t say anything. He put his hand down the front of my jeans, and he inserted a finger, and then walked away.’
Ms Martin said she did not report it or share what had happened with anybody at the time and instead ‘sat with it quietly’.
Elsewhere, she said she accompanied Brand on a filming role in Hawaii, telling the documentary he asked her to come along ‘to stop him from trying it on with people on set’.
She said Brand told her she was dressing ‘like an attention-seeking slut’ and accused her of flirting with crew members.
Her allegations come as Brand is reportedly being assessed for a transfer to the notorious ‘Monster Mansion’ prison where paedophile Lostprophets singer Ian Watkins was stabbed to death last year.
And new claims from six more women today include that he had sex without consent, or refused to stop having sex once consent was withdrawn.
A third woman also claims the comedian grabbed her by the throat and sexually assaulted her in a hotel room, while another alleges he attempted to pull her into a disabled lavatory at a London venue as recently as 2015.
Netflix’s documentary comes as TV chiefs face a legal crackdown to make them protect girls from predatory entertainers following the scandals surrounding Brand and David Walliams.
The claims, part of a new Netflix documentary released today, come after the convicted rapist was sentenced to ten years and six months in prison for assaults on four women
Russell Brand: Open Secret will be released on the streamer on November 13, with Netflix announcing the film will follow Brand ‘from comedy stardom to a criminal trial’
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy is hauling broadcasters in for a showdown next week after it was claimed that Walliams’ alleged preying on young women was – as with Brand – an ‘open secret’ in the industry.
Both are said to have become so powerful, and were so lucrative for broadcasters, that their behaviour went unchallenged.
Walliams, 55, has denied claims that he groomed schoolgirls, sexually assaulted a 15-year-old and pestered teenagers for sex. He said he was ‘not a sexual predator’.
Ms Nandy vowed to ‘draw a line in the sand’ when she meets entertainment leaders – threatening laws to clean up the industry if they do not act.
She said: ‘A decade and a half on from the revelations about Jimmy Savile, and ten years on from the MeToo movement, we must finally take meaningful steps to end abuse and harassment.’
TV producer and presenter Richard Osman has claimed he knew Brand was ‘awful… right from the beginning’, despite the pair never meeting.
Osman, 55, worked as a creative director at Endemol UK, the production company which gave Brand his big break when he was hired to present Big Brother spin-off programmes in the mid-noughties.
Osman has said that while he ‘never worked with [Brand] and never met him… right from the beginning, I thought he was awful. I thought he’s talentless,’ and added that he had heard the comedian had a reputation for being ‘a sleaze’.
The TV personality and podcaster served as Endemol UK’s Deputy Creative Director in 2004 and Creative Director from 2005 onwards, focusing on developing and producing quiz and game shows.
Brand was hired by Endemol in 2004, three years after he was fired from his first TV presenting job at MTV when he arrived to work dressed as Osama bin Laden on September 12, 2001.
After attending rehab for drug addiction, he landed a hosting role on Big Brother’s spin-off show Big Brother’s Eforum, later renamed as Big Mouth, in 2004, which was produced by Endemol UK.
Speaking on his podcast The Rest Is Entertainment with co-host Marina Hyde, Osman reflected on what he had heard about the rising star during this time.
‘From someone who was in the heart of the comedy and entertainment industry, and by the way, I will argue that Russell Brand was in neither of those industries, he was in an industry all of his own.
‘I’ve never worked with him, never met him. Right from the beginning, I thought he was awful. I thought he’s talentless, all of that.’
‘But that’s fine. None of that is illegal, right?’ Osman continued. ‘But I’m not interested in working with him. I can’t think of any actual comedy producer who’d be particularly interested in working with him.
‘He’s not someone who can be collegiate. So, I definitely knew that about him.
‘I sort of knew who he was. He was working on MTV and things. And I was like, “that’s not something that interests me”. [He] gets more famous. You certainly hear that he is a sleaze, right? Again, not illegal, not nice.
‘Again, not someone you would want to work with, not someone who I can think of anyone I know who particularly want to work with, but the guy’s a sleaze and the guy is sex obsessed and the guy runs around with a group of people who have that same aesthetic.’
During his time hosting Big Brother’s Big Mouth Brand allegedly turned production staff into ‘pimps’ to identify audience members to be ‘lambs to the slaughter’ in his bedroom.
It was a Dispatches investigation for Channel 4 in September 2023, alongside The Times and Sunday Times, that led to women coming forward.
In their own probe in 2024, Channel 4 chiefs said one complaint had not been passed up the senior management chain.
The production firm behind Big Brother, Banijay UK, formerly Endemol, also found staff made informal complaints that weren’t escalated.
Banijay said in 2024: ‘We are extremely sorry to anyone who was impacted by this behaviour and felt unable to speak up or that their voice was not properly heard.’
Later in his podcast, Osman explained when he and industry colleagues first heard rumours of Brand’s behaviour.
‘There came a point of reckoning in 2017, 2018 – forgive me if I can’t give an absolutely specific date – when the industry understood that this was a person who had committed illegal acts,’ said Osman.
‘From that moment, he doesn’t work in British TV. And from that moment, people in British TV start talking to journalists and you start that very, very, very long journey.’
Osman and his podcast co-presenter, former Guardian columnist Hyde, pushed back on the idea that Brand’s behaviour was an ‘open secret’, insisting that while ‘some people’ knew, the allegations were not common knowledge within their industries until the 2018 turning point.
Osman said: ‘As a starting point on the idea that everyone knew, yes, everyone knew from 2017, 2018, and that’s the point in which he did not work again, and that’s when he scuttled off to America…
‘And at that point, he knew that people knew because he was confronted about it by people in the industry.’
Hyde added: ‘We can see that Katherine Ryan, at a certain point, made as clear as she possibly could within the legal bounds, made accusations.’
