'I lived with Russell Brand and had to step in after what I heard from his room'

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He went on: "And so, I open up my door, and I see Russell basically holding onto the girl with both of his hands, gripping hold of her arm, like trying to pull her back in, like a…

Russell Brand's former housemate has spoken out in a new Netflix documentary. Russell Brand: Open Secret was released on Friday (November 13), and looks into Brand's career and the investigations into allegations against him, using interviews from insiders and archival footage. During the film, Brand's former housemate, Mark Pinheiro, claimed that he intervened, shortly after Brand brought a woman back to their flat.

"I remember one time, Russell comes home, and he's brought a girl, and he's got her into his bedroom, and it was getting really calamitous in the room, you're hearing loads of noise, and you can hear the girl shouting, 'Let go of me!' I'm thinking, 'This has gone on long enough,'" Mark said.

He went on: "And so, I open up my door, and I see Russell basically holding onto the girl with both of his hands, gripping hold of her arm, like trying to pull her back in, like a tug of war, and she's wrestling herself away from him. And then, as I switch the light on, the light comes on, and he lets go.

"And then, she said, 'Listen, you saw what happened, didn't you?' And I said, 'Well, if you want to report it, feel free, and I will support you.' Whether she reported it, I don't know."

Rosamund Urwin, who conducted The Times and The Sunday Times' investigation into Brand, added: "The fundamental thing here was you had somebody who said, 'I'm this playboy. It's all great, everyone's enjoying the sex they have with me. It's all wonderful.' But actually, there was this really darker side to it."

Elsewhere in the documentary, a "sickening" clip of young Brand was played, as he and his dad, Ron, discussed having sex with prostitutes in the same room. The clip, which recently went viral on social media, was originally broadcast in the first episode of Brand's 2002 television series RE:Brand.

"Do you remember that first night?" Brand asked his dad in the clip. "When you had that other one, and I had that lovely, young Filipino one, didn't I?" Ron replied: "You fell in love…

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