Kirsty Gallacher DELETES Instagram story supporting sister Laura’s husband Russell Brand as rape claim revealed
KIRSTY Gallacher has deleted an Instagram story supporting her brother-in-law Russell Brand.
The TV star shared the post in the hours before Brand was accused of rape, sexual assault and abuse.
A bombshell new report from The Times included allegations of a string of sexual offences made by four women.
The alleged crimes reportedly took place between 2006 and 2013.
The night before the claims came to light, Brand shared a YouTube video in which he denied them as “untrue” and part of a “coordinated media attack” against him.
Smooth Radio presenter Kirsty shared a link to the clip accompanied by a red loveheart on her personal Instagram account at around 10am this morning.
However, that post now appears to have been deleted, with only a story posted 23 hours ago visible.
This shows Kirsty attending a charity event, while the story referencing Brand appears to have been scrubbed from her page.
Kirsty has not made any further comment on the allegations since they have been released.
Likewise, her sister and Brand’s wife Laura has not spoken out in the wake of the claims and has seemingly deleted her own Instagram.
Her page, which she used to promote her work as a writer, now fails to show up online and appears with no posts or followers on the app.
Brand did, though, receive support online from controversial influencer Andrew Tate, who slammed the allegations as “crazy” and a “matrix attack”.
In the Times report, one woman claims that Brand raped her at his LA home, while another alleges he groomed her at the age of 16 before sexually assaulting her.
A full rundown of the allegations will be aired at 9pm tonight in a special episode of Dispatches on Channel 4.
Kirsty’s representatives have been contacted for comment.
The claims against Russell Brand
Woman 1: Claims Brand raped her in his Los Angeles Home
Woman 2: Claims Brand forced her to perform oral sex when she was just 16.
Woman 3: Claims Brand sexually assault her in LA and threatened legal action if she spoke out.
Woman 4: Claims Brand sexually assaulted her and was physically and emotionally abusive
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.