TV producer also explains why she took out an order against a masseuse who'd levied claims against Brand
Jemima Goldsmith, a woman whom the BBC describes as a TV producer who dated Russell Brand for around a year in 2014, wrote an in-depth description on Monday of ways she alleges Brand inflicted “violence, coercive control and abuse” on her during the relationship on social media . Brand was sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison for rape and sexual assault in the U.K. earlier in the day. “I am glad and relieved that Russell Brand has finally faced justice,” she wrote.
What she said of Brand’s alleged abuse, though, constituted the following paragraph: “I had to call the police to have him removed from my house in 2014 during a violent incident,” she wrote. “I chose not to press charges at the time and not to go public with this, as I was worried about the impact of the press attention on my then teenage children.…