Russell Brand compared his recent London criminal trial to a football match in a pre-recorded YouTube video released on Sunday.
The remarks emerged alongside statements from his wife, Laura Gallacher, who addressed the conviction in a YouTube video posted Sunday as part of their “Sunday Service with the Brands” series.
Brand was handed a 10-year and six-month prison sentence earlier this month after a London criminal trial resulted in his conviction for rape and sexual assault. Gallacher addressed the conviction in a YouTube video posted Sunday as part of their “Sunday Service with the Brands” series.
“We trust God, and we trust His plan, and we trust everything He’s doing right now,” said Gallacher.
“Even though it’s painful, and obviously, will take some getting used to for me to even sit here and not have my companion and my person with me. I’m speaking to Russell. He’s okay, and he’s praying, unsurprisingly,” Gallacher said.
Later in the pre-recorded episode, which was filmed while the trial was actively underway, Brand touched upon the media scrutiny surrounding the legal proceedings.
“So obviously, as I said last week, we’re in the middle of a trial,” said Brand.
“I mean, we don’t really look at coverage, but someone showed me some of the coverage the other day from people that were actually broadly supportive. But I know that’s not generally how it’s being covered in the mainstream media, and you can draw your own conclusions from that. Although what we’ll say is, it’s amazing to watch other people’s coverage of it because they just talk about it like it’s a football match.”
During the courtroom proceedings prior to the verdict, Gallacher took the stand to provide character testimony in defense of her husband.
“Caring and kind,” an “amazing husband” and a “wonderful father,” said Gallacher during her testimony.
“I feel very seen by him,” she added.
“We have a very honest, frank and clear relationship and marriage… our relationship has always been [about] honesty,” she added.
The couple have been married since 2017 and share three children together.
