
In response to allegations of sexual assault, comedian Russell Brand issued an absolutely bonkers denial video last week. Not content with that, in response to YouTube suspending his advertising, he issued on Friday what can only be described as his most extreme call-to-action yet, the old, "I need your support now more than ever."
As a survivor of sexual abuse who's just written a book about my various brushes with cults, I find the performance reason enough to convict him of, at the very least, trivializing sexual assault.