Russell Brand, the seducer of 1,000 women, snuggles up to #MeToo

Russell Brand, the British comedian who claims to have bedded 1,000 women, has praised the #MeToo movement.

Russell Brand says he has no regrets about his own sexual behaviour. Picture: Getty

Russell Brand, the British comedian and lothario who claims to have bedded 1,000 women, has praised the #MeToo movement, calling it “a sign of real awakening”.

In an interview in The Sunday Times Magazine, Brand said he has no regrets about his own sexual behaviour, and added that the campaign to stamp out harassment and assault “is a really positive change”.

The 43-year-old, who was married to the pop star Katy Perry, checked into a sexual addiction treatment centre in 2005 and later said that he had had sex with “different women three, four, five times a day” at the height of his womanising.

Brand, who has two children with his second wife, Laura Gallacher, 31 — Mabel, 2, and Peggy, six months — also revealed he has never looked after his daughters for a 24-hour period.

“I’ve done … a night,” he said. “She [Gallacher] wouldn’t go away for 24 hours … Yes, I’m very, very focused on the mystical connotations of Mabel’s beauty and grace. Not so good on the nappies and making sure that they eat food.”

In contrast, his wife, the sister of the TV presenter Kirsty Gallacher, was “able to sustain and maintain domesticity in a way that’s astonishing”, he said.

Brand said he frets about his daughters going to play with friends. “There is nothing playful about a playdate,” he said. “It’s an unrestrained, unmanaged, dangerous experiment that places my precious, perfect little girl in the company of anonymous, unvetted potential arseholes.”

His latest book, Mentors, is dedicated to his daughters. Brand has previously said that fatherhood had grounded him and was “the perfect antidote to [thinking], ‘Oh God, I’m magnificent.’”

Brand’s life now in an Oxfordshire village is a far cry from his wild days of drug-taking and womanising.

He has admitted being ashamed of spitting in the face of a lap-dancer after she slapped him soon after they had had sex.

When Brand was 17, his father took him to Hong Kong and paid for Brand to have sex with prostitutes.

He wrote that his sexuality had morphed on that trip “from bewildered innocence into something more complex and rapacious”.

In 2008 Brand was suspended from BBC Radio 2 after making prank calls to the actor Andrew Sachs, who played the Spanish waiter Manuel in Fawlty Towers. Brand and the presenter Jonathan Ross left lewd messages on Sachs’s answering machine about his granddaughter, Georgina Baillie. They later apologised.

The Sunday Times