Russell Brand’s Interview Misstep Prompts Bible Reading in Court
Russell Brand says he has finally found the elusive Bible verse he claimed to read in court—insisting it was marked all along—an odd twist as he faces a high-profile hearing over rape and sexual assault allegations.
Russell Brand says he finally found the Bible verse he meant to cite in court — the same verse he couldn’t find on live TV two days earlier. Yes, this is where we are.
The viral fumble, then the fix
On Friday, April 24, during Piers Morgan Uncensored, Morgan pressed Brand — who has refashioned himself from comedian/actor into a right-wing podcaster — to name a specific verse from the Bible he’d brought to a February court hearing on rape and sexual assault charges. Brand, 50, spent roughly a minute and a half flipping through pages and came up empty. That moment blew up online, with critics arguing he’s using a late-in-life embrace of Christianity as cover while he faces accusations from multiple women. For context: during that February hearing, court officers actually confiscated the Bible after he started reading it.
Cut to Sunday, April 26: in a video posted to X, Brand said he had, in fact, been looking for a particular passage the whole time — and that it had been marked. He described sitting in a dark UK crown court 'glass box' while searching for it that day. This time, he turned straight to the page and read from the Old Testament, saying this was the section he’d been trying to reference.
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