A jury has been shown photos of Russell Brand's flat where a woman claims he raped her, leaving her hurt, bleeding and fearing she had contracted a disease.
The court heard the woman was a "massive" fan when she came to one of his stand-up performances at the Hammersmith Apollo in 2009, where she was "selected" by the comedian in the foyer, who allegedly pointed at her and said: "You".
She told police she willingly had a threesome with the star backstage at the Apollo, then later went to his Hampstead home knowing they would have sex.
AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementBut she alleges a consensual encounter became rape when Mr Brand started having anal sex with her and ignored her pleas for him to stop.
She told police in a video-recorded interview played to Southwark Crown Court on Tuesday that Mr Brand "hurt me and harmed me, and when I asked him to stop he didn't".
The jury was shown photos of Brand's home in Hampstead, north London (Metropolitan Police)
Mr Brand, 51, denies three charges of rape, three counts of sexual assault, and one allegation of indecent assault in alleged attacks against six women as he rose to fame between 1999 and 2009.
He arrived at the central London court wearing a dark coat, sunglasses and heeled suede ankle boots with his wife, Laura Gallacher, for the fifth day of prosecution evidence against him.
AdvertisementAdvertisementThe woman said when she arrived at his home, Mr Brand forced her to shower while he watched, then instructed her to brush her teeth with a toothbrush that had been laid out.
The woman said she "wanted it to be over" during the consensual sex, she recounted the "traumatic" anal rape, and told police Mr Brand put Quantum Leap on the TV when it was all over.
She told police: "From the very moment it happened, I felt I had willingly gone there and from what his reputation was, what did I expect?"
The woman alleges Brand raped her during a sexual encounter at the property in 2009 (Metropolitan Police)
The woman – who is the final alleged victim to give evidence – said Mr Brand invited three women to have drinks with him after he performed to a packed crowd at the Hammersmith Apollo in February 2009, pointing at them in the foyer and simply saying "you".
AdvertisementAdvertisementShe left the venue feeling "awful" and "disgusting" after the threesome backstage, she told police, adding that she refused to have full sex with Mr Brand because she had a boyfriend at the time, but had performed oral sex on the comedian and watched as he had sex with the other woman.
The court heard the woman confessed to her boyfriend afterwards and they split up. She told police she decided to have sex with Mr Brand again after the breakdown of her relationship.
She told the police officer: "I want to make this really clear, that I went there knowing that I would have sex with him.
"I've really struggled for a really long time to accept what happened to me, because I went there knowingly and willingly."
AdvertisementAdvertisementShe said that Mr Brand removed the condom and anally raped her without warning, adding: "I don't know how long it took for me between it going on and me asking him to stop, I don't think it was very long."
Afterwards she says the comedian looked "horrified" and instructed her to "clear up the mess you have made".
She recalled using wipes and black toilet roll from Brand's bathroom, adding: "He put the TV on, I remember it was something like Quantum Leap."
The woman told police that Brand made her shower and brush her teeth before the encounter (Metropolitan Police)
The woman said she told friends and family afterwards and underwent sexual health tests, believing she had contracted a disease from Mr Brand.
Earlier on Tuesday, another of Mr Brand's accusers said a "culture of fear" prevented her from reporting the TV star for allegedly sexually assaulting in a radio station corridor.
AdvertisementAdvertisementThe court heard that Mr Brand is accused of attacking the woman at Choice FM in central London in the mid-2000s, when he was shooting to fame as a Big Brother presenter and TV star. The woman alleges the star pinned her against a wall and groped and kissed her "hard" while three men and a woman looked on.
"There was a culture of fear," she said, recalling the atmosphere at the time as "people-pleasing".
"Russell Brand was an A-list star, it was Big Brother, people were watching it, we all watched it."
Brand denies three counts of rape, three counts of sexual assault and one count of indecent assault (Reuters)
Questioned by Mr Brand's barrister Ian Winter KC why she had not reported the incident and suggesting she had a professional "obligation", the woman hit out at workplace "banter" at the time.
AdvertisementAdvertisementShe said: "Women were rated by colleagues on what we were wearing, how we looked.
"It wasn't an environment where management were coming to talk to us about workplace behaviour – that didn't exist."
Talking about what may have happened had she raised the alleged assault with her line manager, she told jurors: "I think they probably would have said something along the lines of: 'Oh, you're lucky.'"
The woman said she had been "triggered" to come forward to police after seeing a 2023 documentary on sexual misconduct allegations about Mr Brand.
Brand in the dock at Southwark Crown Court (PA)
She broke down in tears in the witness box as she said she would not "gain a single thing" by reporting the incident and giving evidence.
AdvertisementAdvertisement"This was a situation that I don't need to be in, I don't gain a single thing by saying Russell Brand did that to me," she added.
She also told the court that she struggled to understand why the men and woman who witnessed the incident "didn't do anything to stop him".
The woman added: "I wonder if I was alone with him, what would have happened. There is a man who is mauling me in front of people."
The trial continues.
