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Russell Brand’s ex, Jordan Martin, speaks about the actor’s marriage to Katy Perry in Netflix’s Russell Brand: Open Secret.
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Martin says the disgraced actor “always wanted” to marry “someone famous.”
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She also alleges that Brand sexually assaulted her in a U.K. hotel room after breaking her cell phone.
Russell Brand’s ex, Jordan Martin, is sharing her thoughts on the disgraced comedian’s short-lived marriage to Katy Perry.
“All of it just doesn’t seem real,” Martin says of the famous couple’s nuptials in the new Netflix documentary Russell Brand: Open Secret.
“He’s doing exactly what he always wanted to do and be married to someone famous, which he always said he would be,” she adds of the actor, who was sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison for rape and sexual assault earlier this week.
Perry and Brand met in 2008 while filming 2010’s Get Him to the Greek and married in a lavish ceremony in India in 2010. Brand filed for divorce 14 months later, reportedly texting Perry on New Year’s Eve that he wanted to split. Their divorce was finalized in July 2012.
Martin, meanwhile, was dating Brand when he was cast in the 2008 comedy Forgetting Sarah Marshall, which was filmed primarily in Hawaii. According to Martin, the actor asked her to accompany him to Hawaii because “he wanted someone there to stop him from ‘trying it on’ with people on set.”
But Martin claims his behavior changed when they arrived. She alleges in the documentary that he “didn’t feel comfortable” with her sunbathing, and accused her of “dressing like an attention-seeking tart.”
“He said to me I should be dating somebody more famous than you,” Martin says. She also claims that Brand admitted to having sex with a yoga instructor in Hawaii. “He was reinforcing [the idea that] sex with strangers doesn’t mean anything; they’re objects.”
Martin recalls another incident when Brand allegedly encouraged her to brush her teeth so that she would “taste anonymous” to him. “He didn’t want me to be familiar to him, so he was asking me to brush my teeth, but it was never enough,” Martin explains, adding that Brand stood over her as she brushed so hard that her gums began bleeding.
Elsewhere in the documentary, Martin alleges that Brand broke her cell phone “to pieces” and sexually assaulted her in a U.K. hotel after discovering that she had spoken with a previous partner.
“He put his hand down the front of my jeans, and he inserted a finger and then walked away,” Martin says through tears. “I look back at myself back then, and I feel sorry for myself…It wasn’t very fair, you know?”
In 2014, using a pseudonym, Martin published a memoir titled kNot: Entanglement with a Celebrity, in which she recounted her relationship with Brand. The book received little media attention at the time.
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Russell Brand: Open Secrethits Netflix just days after a London court found the actor guilty on one charge of rape and three charges of sexual assault. He was acquitted of two other counts of rape and one count of attempted indecent assault.
The verdict came three years after The Sunday Times,The Times, and Channel 4 published the results of a joint investigation featuring interviews with multiple women who accused Brand of sexual assault. On Nov. 12, the day before Netflix released its new documentary, The Times and The Sunday Timespublished sexual misconduct allegations from six additional women.
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