Russell Brand admitted to police about his “very promiscuous” lifestyle of kissing fans and sleeping with countless women but denied forcing himself on people, a court heard.

Brand, now 51, was quizzed by police four times between November 2023 and July 2025, and each time insisted he has “never engaged in any non-consensual sexual activity”.

The former comedian, who is now on trial for raping and sexually assaulting a series of women, told detectives that sexual misconduct allegations first made in 2023 following an investigation by The Times, Sunday Times, and Channel 4 are “false”.

In his statements to police, he detailed kissing hundreds of fans while out in public, having sex in toilets, and abruptly ending sexual encounters with women once they had finished.

“I led a very promiscuous life in the past, which I have spent years openly denouncing,” he said.

“On 16 September 2023, a defamatory and fictitious documentary was broadcast in conjunction with the publication of two national newspapers…