A resurfaced video has circulated on social media showing a young Russell Brand and his father discussing the nights Brand spent with sex workers.

Brand, 51, was this week sentenced to 10 years and six months in prison after being convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault.

The comedian’s father, Ron Brand, 82, spoke outside the courtroom following his son’s sentencing, claiming that Brand was a “victim” of girls who “chased him and harassed him”.

Footage of a young Brand speaking with his father about a shared holiday to Hong Kong – which was originally included in the first episode of Brand’s 2002 TV series RE:Brand – has subsequently gone viral on social media.

In the clip, Brand describes a night in which they visited a Hong Kong hotel, when he was 17 years old. He later explained that his father had hired three sex workers on the night – and one for his son – and they had sex in the same room.

“I remember thinking, f***ing hell, all of them women in swimsuits, I can’t wait to get back to our school and tell my mates,” Brand says in the clip.

He recalls the situation escalating to a point where the women began “touching my d*** and kissing me”.

“I actually ended up telling my mates, it was about three prostitutes in the back of a taxi, with the clicker clack of my high heels on a marble hotel lobby floor going up to that beautiful room,” he adds.

Addressing his father, he says: “And then you had that other one, and then I had that lovely young Filipino one didn’t I.”

“You fell in love every time,” Ron replies.

Brand says that he woke up in the morning to half-empty champagne glasses and his father asking: “Did you wear a condom with that bird last night?”

“I went, ‘No, no, no, never’, and you went, ‘You should have’,” he laughs.

Social media users have condemned the footage, with one person writing: “This tells us a lot about why Russell Brand turned out the way he did.”

Another described the clip as “unreal” and “actually stomach churning”.

Brand later discussed the trip in one of his memoirs, writing: “During the rest of that holiday I f***ed loads more prostitutes and never wore a condom… my sexuality had morphed forever from bewildered innocence into something more complex and rapacious.”

During sentencing on Monday, high court judge Joel Bennathan stated that Brand was “a sexual predator” whose celebrity status had “protected” him until 2023, when Channel 4 and The Times journalists published allegations against him.

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