One of Russell Brand’s ex-partners has accused him of “violence, coercive control and abuse”, as she defended her support for an injunction order against a woman who made allegations against the celebrity.

Brand, 51, was sentenced to 10-and-a-half years’ imprisonment on Monday for raping one of his fans and sexually assaulting three TV and radio workers during his rise to international fame.

Hours after the sentence was delivered at Southwark Crown Court, his ex-partner Jemima Goldsmith, the heiress and former wife of cricketer and former prime minister of Pakistan Imran Khan, issued a statement on social media.

Ms Goldsmith, who dated Brand for around a year until September 2014, issued the 1,534-word message in response to “misleading reports” over the harrassment injunction the pair secured against masseuse Szilvia Berki in 2015.

The case stemmed from a birthday present massage arranged by Ms Goldsmith for Brand in June 2014, which was not in the end taken up.…