Russell Brand breaks cover after revealing Diddy Link-Up
October 8, 2024, published at 4:00 PM ET
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Brand has cooperated Diddy about the 2010 film Take him to the Greek and was asked by an interviewer at the time what it was like to be in the rapper’s company.
The comedian turned activist said: “Diddy was new to me. He took care of me.
“He took me on a forced vacation to Vegas.
“He’s a very intense man because I think he came from nothing and now he’s very, very powerful.
“People who do things like that are intense.”
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Brand continued: “Now I like him. He is very influential.
‘Say you don’t want to do something and Diddy wants you to do it, it’s really hard not to.”
The Brit then gave examples of Diddy’s requests, including feeding his fish and picking him up from the airport.
He added that he would feel obliged to agree to the rapper’s demands for fear of upsetting him.
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Brand said: “He looks a bit like the ghost. Like he’s very influential.
“He’s a good laugh, but… he could ask you for a lot of favors and you can’t say no to him. That’s my concern.
“I don’t want to be anyone’s boyfriend. I’ve worked too hard in life. Not even Diddy’s boyfriend.”
Diddy, 54, is currently awaiting trial The Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in New York City on charges of sex trafficking, racketeering and transportation to engage in prostitution.
He pleaded not guilty to all three charges and was denied bail.
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He continues to deny claims about his behavior, which allegedly occurred during the height of his fame between 2006 and 2013.
Brand continued his conversion to Christianity this past week, performing a baptism and interpreting the Bible.
The comedian himself was baptized in April and has published several posts since December 2023 discussing his relationship with religion.
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In a video uploaded last week, the former Buddhist said: “How can we ever understand with the conscious limited mind that God himself came to earth and was sacrificed, that we may be redeemed and rise again, that we may enter the eternal may have life. with our limited consciousness that is not possible.”