Disgraced Russell Brand speaks out for the first time to deny multiple rape allegations, calling accusations 'a painful, hurtful attack' during Tucker Carlson interview where he says Holocaust denier David Icke 'was at the forefront'

In his latest online rant, Russell Brand told Tucker Carlson that he believes Holocaust denier David Icke was “leading the way” with his views on globalization, while also denying the numerous rape allegations made against him.

Brand, 48, appeared on Carlson's September, In Plain Sight.

During the broadcast, Brand refers several times to the accusations he faces, at one point saying he is “embroiled in” a “deliberate pervasive effort to suppress any dissent in an astonishingly aggressive manner.” .

The former Big Brother's Big Mouth host said the attacks were 'a painful, hurtful attack'.

He also says that at the time of the documentary, the British government had contacted social media platforms and asked for his removal.

“Of course I deny all allegations… that have been raised,” he later adds, and “I reject the allegations in the strongest possible terms.”

Carlson joined Brand for an interview in 2023, shortly after the host was fired by Fox News

Brand said that when the documentary aired, his son was undergoing heart surgery at just 12 weeks old.

During another part of the broadcast, Brand's attention turned to David Icke.

“It scares me to think, Tucker, that people like Alex Jones and in our country, David Icke… seem to be leading the way,” Brand said. Adding that it was “extraordinary” how long the pair had been talking about “globalization.”

Accusations of Holocaust denial have been leveled at Icke since his 1995 book And the Truth Shall Set You Free. In the book, Icke claimed that prominent Jewish families “helped finance Adolf Hitler.”

He also wrote that schools are “indoctrinating children into the undisputed version of events with the mainstream narrative of the Holocaust thanks to their use of free copies of the film Schindler's List.”

The relationship between Brand and Icke goes back almost twenty years. In 2008, Icke made two guest appearances on the Forgetting Sarah Marshall star's infamous BBC Radio 2.

According to the Anti-Defamation League, Jones, who is best known for his denials regarding the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting that killed 20 children, is not openly anti-Semitic but “has had anti-Semitic guests on his show.”

One of those guests, Kanye West, admitted that he “liked Hitler” in a December 2022 interview on the show. Icke himself was a guest on Jones' InfoWars show several times.

Brand pictured with Holocaust denier David Icke in 2008, at the height of Brand's ill-fated Hollywood career

Brand's shift from a left-wing darling to a popular one with the right has been described as the 'grift drift'

This week the liberal watchdog Media Matters a study published about Brand's development from a left-wing darling to someone who 'critically platforms right-wing figures and unfounded conspiracy theories'.

Less than a decade ago, Fox News host Greg Gutfeld called Brand “left-wing commie scum.” Over the past year and a half, Gutfeld has regularly spoken highly of Brand proverb that the actor chose 'truth' over 'stardom' when he left his film career behind.

Media Matters calls Brand's shift the 'grift drift'.

Brand said in the appearance that he believes “authoritarianism” is weaponized with words like “care, concern, security and convenience,” but that the ultimate goal is for individuals to lose their freedoms.

“It seems to me that we are in a time when we are lurching from one crisis to another. The crisis is always used to legitimize certain solutions and a docile or terrified public is willing to participate in these proposed solutions, which usually involve giving up their freedom,” he continued.

“We are constantly invited to give up our freedom in exchange for safety or convenience, and it appears this process is escalating radically. And I think this is something we'll see more of in the coming year.”

Brand has been questioned by detectives from London's Metropolitan Police about allegations of historical sexual offences.

British police said in September they had launched an investigation into a number of allegations of non-recent sex crimes, following media reports that women had accused Brand of a series of sex crimes.

Brand has rejected what he has described as “very serious allegations”, saying on his social media channels that he has never had non-consensual sex.

There was no immediate response to a request for comment on Sunday's report from Brand representatives.

“A man in his 40s attended a police station in south London on Thursday 16 November 2023,” the Metropolitan Police said in a statement, but declined to confirm whether it was Brand.

'He was interrogated provisionally by detectives in connection with three non-recent sexual offences. Investigations continue,” police added.