Netflix announces new documentary about Russell Brand

Netflix has announced a new documentary, Russell Brand: Open Secret, about convicted abuser Russell Brand. The film will be released tomorrow, November 13.

The film will "chart the story of Russell Brand’s meteoric rise and steep fall following allegations of sexual offences," according to an official synopsis.

 

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The documentary is directed by Olivia Isaacs, and produced by 72 Films, a Fremantle Company. They also produced Jimmy Savile: A British Horror Story, which was released on Netflix in 2022. Clare Cameron, David Glover, Mark Raphael serve as executive producers for the project, while producers include Kate Yandle, Laura Spence, and Felicity Cross.

Russell Brand: An Open Secret includes insider information and archival footage that provide information about Brand's life, as well as contributions from The Times and The Sunday Times' Chief News Correspondent, Rosamund Urwin, and Investigations Correspondent, Charlotte Wace, following their investigation of the comedian.

Brand was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in prison for one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault on Monday. This followed his guilty verdict at Southwark Crown Court on November 5.

Brand will serve nine years for his charge of anally raping a woman at his London home in 2009, which he will serve consecutively with three other charges. These charges will be served concurrently to each other.

He will serve 9 months for count three, sexually assaulting a woman when he grabbed her breasts at a London bar in 2004.

He will serve 18 months for count 5, where he sexually assaulted a woman at the Choice FM studios in London in either 2004 or 2005, when he grabbed her face and kissed her before groping her breasts and behind.

He will serve 8 months for count 7, sexually assaulting a woman he worked with on a Channel 4 project in 2009, where he laid his head on her groin area without her consent.

Watch the documentary announcement below: