Russell Brand’s Ex Opens Up About His Marriage to Katy Perry in Netflix Documentary

Russell Brand’s ex Jordan Martin shares his thoughts on the disgraced comedian’s short-lived marriage to Katy Perry.

“It all 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 2010s. Take it to 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 to say he wanted to separate. Their divorce was finalized in July 2012.

Martin, meanwhile, was dating Brand when he was cast in the 2008 comedy. Forgetting Sarah Marshallwhich was filmed primarily in Hawaii. According to Martin, the actor asked him to accompany him to Hawaii because “he wanted someone to stop him from ‘trying it out’ with people on set.”

But Martin says 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 pie.”

“He told me I should date someone more famous than you,” Martin says. She also claims that Brand admitted to having sex with a yoga instructor in Hawaii. “It reinforced (the idea that) sex with strangers doesn’t mean anything; they’re objects.”

Martin recalls another incident in which Brand allegedly encouraged her to brush her teeth so that she would “feel anonymous” to him. “He didn’t want me to be familiar, so he would ask me to brush my teeth, but it was never enough,” Martin says, adding that Brand stood over her while she brushed so hard that her gums started to bleed.

Elsewhere in the documentary, Martin alleges that Brand smashed her mobile phone “to pieces” and sexually assaulted her in a British hotel after discovering she had been speaking with a former partner.

“He put his hand on the front of my jeans, inserted a finger and then walked away,” Martin said through tears. “I think back to myself at the time and I feel sorry for myself… It wasn’t very fair, you know?”

In 2014, under a pseudonym, Martin published a memoir titled kNot: Entanglement with a Celebrityin which she recounts her relationship with Brand. The book received little media attention at the time.

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Russell brand: open secret comes to Netflix just days after a London court found the actor guilty of one charge of rape and three charges of sexual assault. He was acquitted of two further counts of rape and one count of attempted indecent assault.

The verdict came three years later Sunday time, time, and Channel 4 published the results of a joint investigation including interviews with several women accusing Brand of sexual assault. On November 12, the day before Netflix released his new documentary, The times And Sunday time published allegations of sexual misconduct involving six other women.