ANDREW Tate today backed Russell Brand ahead of explosive claims from women against him.
Controversial internet personality Tate made several social media posts claiming that Brand was a victim of a "matrix attack" and calling the allegations "crazy".
Speaking in the hours before the allegations against Brand were confirmed in an explosive report in The Times, Tate took to X, formerly Twitter, to post an image of a knight striding forward with a spear and shield.
He captioned the picture: "On my way to fight these crazy b**** allegations."
In a separate post, he wrote: "Matrix attack."
This references the 1999 blockbuster The Matrix, in which the world is a digital simulation designed to subdue humanity and controlled by all-powerful computer programs.
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The nature of the claims against Brand were at that point unknown before being broken by The Times on Saturday afternoon.
Channel 4 also cleared a 90-minute slot on Saturday evening for an episode of Dispatches investigating Brand with interviews with his alleged victims.
It comes after:
- Brand released a video slamming the claims against him as ‘untrue’
- Kirsty Gallacher shared the clip in support of her brother-in-law
- Brand’s wife Laura Gallacher appears to have deleted her Instagram
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In his YouTube post, Brand "refuted" the claims against him and emphasised that all his relationships have been "consensual".
He slammed the allegations as "untrue" and part of a "coordinated media attack" on him.
Tate has previously used the "matrix" metaphor to refer to the allegations against himself, which he claims are vengeful attacks from the system against his beliefs.
In June the self-professed misogynist was charged with rape and human trafficking in Romania after he and his brother Tristan were accused of sexually exploiting women.
Seven alleged victims claimed that the duo and their associates forced them into taking part in pornography and placed them under constant surveillance.
Last month, it was reported that Romanian prosecutors had a dossier of case files which revealed grim details of the alleged crimes.
One woman claimed that the former kickboxer threatened to get her pregnant and lock her indoors after she sent him negative messages.
Brand has also received backing from his sister-in-law Kirsty Gallacher, who shared his denial video on social media.
However, his wife Laura is yet to comment on the allegations publically and has seemingly deleted her own Instagram page.
Russell Brand’s video transcript 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.
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