In her first social media post after her ex-husband Russell Brand was charged with rape and sex assault, Katy Perry broke her quiet.
Four women have accused Brand, 48, of rape, sexual assault, and emotional abuse. They claim the alleged crimes occurred between 2006 and 2013, during the height of Brand’s prominence.
Perry has not responded to the allegations, but on Tuesday she published her first Instagram post since they initially surfaced.
Perry published images of her new line of cowboy boots, including one of herself standing on a scooter, while avoiding any mention of her ex-husband Brand.
The caption read: “Scootin’ n bootin,” after she had already acknowledged that she was aware of “the truth” regarding Brand.
On Sunday in Los Angeles, Katy was spotted for the first time since the allegations surfaced.
Her fiancé Orlando Bloom was seen earlier in the day driving to the gym while she was seen driving her Porsche.
During a 2013 interview with Vogue, which has just surfaced, Perry, who was married to Brand for 14 months, previously made reference to “keeping his truth,” which she would have kept in her safe “for a rainy day.”
Since the shocking accusations Brand has been the target of in recent days, this is Perry’s first public appearance.
She hasn’t spoken on the matter so far, but after a 2013 interview with Vogue appeared again, concerns have been raised about how much she knew.
Prior to their opulent 2010 wedding in India at the Ranthambore Tiger Sanctuary in Rajasthan, Perry and the comedian first became friends in 2008.
But once Brand texted the singer the following year to say he wanted a divorce, their union seemed destined to end quickly.
The California Gurls singer admitted in the Vogue interview that she had first held ‘a lot of guilt’ for the breakup before she ‘found out the real truth.’
In order to avoid having to “necessarily disclose,” Perry claimed she would store this “truth” in her safe “for a rainy day.”
It has sparked new rumors regarding the mystery to which the singer had been alluding after the divorce.
‘He’s a really smart man, and I was in love with him when I married him,’ she remarked at the time.
Let’s just say that after he texted me on December 31, 2011, announcing his intention to divorce me, I haven’t heard from him.
I felt a lot of guilt for it ending, but I later learned the real truth, which I don’t necessarily want to share since I have it locked away in my safe for a rainy day, Perry continued. I let go and thought, “This is beyond me; it’s not my fault.” I have since gone past that.
The revelation follows reports from UK media sources The Times and Sunday Times that, in the wake of their joint investigation with Channel 4, which was published on Saturday,’several women’ had come forward with unreported complaints about Brand’s behavior during the early 2000s.
The unconventional actor and stand-up comedian has vehemently denied all accusations of wrongdoing and accused “mainstream media” of being responsible for the “litany of astonishing, rather baroque attacks.”
The most recent accusations, which according to the publication have not been looked into but will now be “rigorously checked,” come after complaints from four women, one of whom says Brand sexually attacked her during a three-month relationship when she was 16 and still in school.
After it was reported that Brand picked the girl up from school using a company-provided vehicle service, the BBC was also confronted with “urgent questions.”
Internal inquiries have been opened by the BBC and Channel 4 into several claims that Brand engaged in predatory behavior toward staff and viewers while working for them.
The Great British Bake Off and Big Brother’s Big Mouth episodes in which Brand appeared have since been removed from Channel 4’s website, according to The Daily Telegraph.
Since then, Netflix has received requests to take his comedy special, Rebirth, off of their streaming library.
Minutes before Scotland Yard increased the pressure by saying that police wanted to speak to the comedian’s alleged victims, the BBC announced its investigation.
One woman’s allegations that Brand sexually assaulted her against a wall in his Los Angeles home was one of the complaints brought up during the probe.
Another woman claimed that while she was working with the comedian in Los Angeles, he sexually attacked her and threatened to take legal action if she told anyone.
The third woman alleged that Brand, who she claims was physically and emotionally hostile to her, had sexually attacked her.
The fourth lady, who will only be identified as Alice, claimed that he choked her while they were having sex when she was 16 years old.
She claims he stole.
Alice referred to Brand’s treatment of her as “grooming,” since he allegedly gave her instructions on how to trick her parents into letting her visit him. She added that he would bring her up from her secondary school with his “BBC car.”
The first time I used it, he informed me that it was scheduled to transport him to his radio program, but that he would be replaced by a buddy, so I should use that car instead, she told The Times.
She stated that the driver had once driven her between Brand’s house and her grandmother’s home, and that on another occasion, the same vehicle had “picked me up from school.”
It was the same automobile, Alice continued. I knew that vehicle belonged to BBC.
The BBC initially refused to commit to an investigation, but as the criticism grew, it changed its mind and a spokesman stated that it was “urgently looking into the issues.”
A BBC spokeswoman issued the following statement: “The documentary and related reports contained serious allegations that span a number of years.”
“We are urgently looking into the issues raised,” the statement reads. “Russell Brand worked on BBC radio programs between 2006 and 2008.”
While insisting that any relationships he had “during his time of promiscuity” were “consensual,” Brand hit back at ‘aggressive’ media claims in a 2-minute, 45-second rant to his 11 million X followers and 6.5 million YouTube subscribers.
Is there another agenda at work? he asked his supporters, accusing the media of planning an assault on him.
“Especially when we’ve seen coordinated media attacks before, like with Joe Rogan, when he dared to take a medication that the mainstream media didn’t approve of, and we saw a spate of headlines,” the speaker continued.
