Katy Perry breaks silence after ex-husband Russell Brand was accused of rape & sexual assault
KATY Perry has broken her silence for the first time since her ex-husband Russell Brand was accused of rape and sex assault.
The singer, 38, took to her Instagram account to share a photo of her new line of cowboy boots.
Perry posed up a storm on a scooter as she wore an oversized black fur coat, catsuit and electric blue shoes in her latest post.
The pouting pop star captioned the image "scootin n bootin" and linked the social media activity to Collections.
Perry and Brand are believed to have met in 2009 and soon began dating in their whirlwind romance that saw them tie the knot in a small ceremony in India in 2010.
But the romance was short-lived, with the American singer and British comedian divorcing just 14 months later.
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Perry even revealed Brand brutally ended their marriage to her via text message on New Year's Eve - just minutes before she went on stage.
The moment that Perry received the message was caught on camera, appearing in her 2012 documentary Katy Perry: Part of Me.
The singer is seen breaking down in tears in the documentary while dressed for the performance.
And the California Girls singer has since opened up about the split, saying she was "f***ed" and "felt a lot of responsibility".
Speaking to in 2013, the star said the initial romantic whirlwind had been "magical", adding he was "hysterical".
But she said Brand didn't visit her on her tour at the time, adding: "At first when I met him he wanted an equal, and I think a lot of times strong men do want an equal, but then they get that equal and they're like, I can't handle the equalness.
"He didn't like the atmosphere of me being the boss on tour. So that was really hurtful, and it was very controlling, which was upsetting.
";I felt a lot of responsibility for it ending."
She then added: "But then I found out the real truth, which I can't necessarily disclose because I keep it locked in my safe for a rainy day.
"I let go and I was like: 'This isn't because of me; this is beyond me.' So I have moved on from that."
It's unclear what "truth" Katy Perry was referring to.
It comes after a bombshell report by The Times revealed five women have alleged Brand sexually assaulted them while at the height of his fame.
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And a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary revealed that Brand allegedly attacked the victims between 2006 and 2013.
The comedian has denied all allegations.
Russell Brand's denial in full
Hello there, you awakening wonders.
Now this isn't the usual type of video we make on this channel where we critique, attack and undermine the news in all its corruption because in this story I am the news.
I have received two extremely disturbing letters - well a letter and an email.
One from a mainstream media TV company, one from a newspaper, listing a litany of extremely egregious and aggressive attacks as well as some pretty stupid stuff - like my community festival should be stopped, that I shouldn't be able to attack mainstream media narratives on this channel.
But amidst this litany of astonishing, rather baroque, attacks are some very serious allegations that I absolutely refute. These allegations pertain to the time when I was working in the mainstream - when I was in the newspapers all the time, when I was in the movies, and as I have written about extensively in my books I was very very promiscuous
Now during that time of promiscuity, the relationships I had were absolutely always consensual. I was always transparent about that then, almost too transparent. And I'm being transparent about it now as well.
And to see that transparency metastasized into something criminal that I absolutely deny makes me question is there another agenda at play?
Particularly when we have seen coordinated media attacks before - like with Joe Rogan when he dared to take a medicine that the mainstream media didn't approve of and we saw a spate of headlines from media outlets across the world using the same language.
I'm aware that you guys have been saying in the comments for a while 'Watch out Russell, they are coming for you, you are getting too close to the truth, Russell Brand did not kill himself'.
I know that a year ago there was a spate of articles 'Russell Brand is a conspiracy theorist, Russell Brand's right wing'.
I'm aware of news media making phone calls, sending letters to people I know for ages and ages.
It's been clear to me or at least it feels to me like there's a serious and concerted agenda to control these kind of spaces and these kind of voices and I mean my voice along with your voice.
I don't mind them using my books and my stand up to talk about my promiscuous consensual conduct in the past. What I seriously refute are these very, very serious criminal allegations.
Also it's worth mentioning that there are witnesses whose evidence directly contradicts the narratives that these two mainstream media outlets are trying to construct apparently in what seems to me to be a coordinated attack
Now I don't want to get into this any further because of the serious nature of the allegations, but I feel like I'm being attacked and plainly they are working very closely together.
We are obviously going to look into this matter because it's very, very serious. In the meantime I want you to stay close, stay awake but more important than any of that if you can, please, stay free.