Russell Brand, 48, claimed in a new interview that he struggled with the spotlight during his marriage to Katy Perry, 38, and his meteoric career.
Russell discussed being married to the pop diva and how he felt about his relationship being in the public eye on the August 6 edition of Running Wild with Bear Grylls: The Challenge.
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“Some aspects of it were like amazing. She’s an amazing person, and it was kind of incredible to live for a moment in that eye of the cyclone-type aspect of fame,” he said.
“Aside from my sort of feelings of affection for Katy, it’s a time that I remember being a little bit chaotic and a bit, for me, to speak for myself, a little disconnected.”
Russell and Katy met on the set of his film Get Him to the Greek in 2009 and became engaged the following year.
They married in 2010 but divorced the following year. In 2012, their divorce was finalized.
In a 2013 Vogue cover story, Katy said that Russell texted her that he was about to file for divorce.
Katy began dating Orlando Bloom in 2016. They have a 2-year-old daughter called Daisy Dove.
Katy recounted her brief marriage to Russell in an interview with 60 Minutes Australia in 2020. “I was having great success at 23, 24, and 25 and then I met someone that was interesting and stimulating. It was just like a tornado, it was everything happening at once,” she stated at the time.
The Forgetting Sarah Marshall star also discussed his earlier battle with drug abuse with Bear Grylls.
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“It was the dominant and defining part of my life,” the comedian remarked. Russell was addicted from the age of 16 to 27.
He stated that “particularly in the last 5 years, I suppose, I was told if I didn’t stop in the next 6 months, I would be dead or in prison, in an institution of some kind.” “I think I was a disconnected person.”
