Piers Morgan Calls Russell Brands Behavior Weird

Sharing a video of himself wearing a striped robe, he said: 'I am still looking for that passage from Isiah. Wait for it, wait for it...Do you remember when I was on Piers Morgan.

'I was looking for it and I thought I should find the exact passage, the exact one I was looking at when I was sat in the dock in the court... maybe you've never been in a dock in a court accused of really heavy stuff.

'You're in the UK in a Crown Court, in a glass box and I'm not sure if I found it right there in that moment but this was the verse I was looking at that day.

'Forget the former things. Do not dwell on the past. See I am doing a new thing. Now it springs up, do you perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland. 

'Do you wonder sometimes if what you personally face will align and combine with something universal? Do you not feel like our whole culture needs a new thing to spring up? 

'That our whole culture is a bit like a wasteland. Like I mean, the political scene, both globally and domestically and personally, that this isn't a great time in the world, is it? 

'Like this is the roaring 20s, but the roaring twenties were between the wars and maybe from a macro perspective or a holy perspective, the world has always been caught in such tension. 

He continued: 'Indeed, that's exactly what this book and the prophecies of Isiah posit, that it's not some localised thing. 

'So when you are talking about, has the world been captured and conquered by dark forces and you might see that from a conspiratorial perspective in a post-Epstein world, all of that is iterated theologically, historically and scripturally, even though I find a lot of those words difficult.

'So the answer is in here. It's like access to the most divine truth that's always within you. It's a kind of coming home. 

'Sorry it took me so long to find it on Piers Morgan. I think it was the pressure of the circumstances. Isiah 43:18. In particular, what I like is: "See how it springs up. Ah, something new is happening".'

Elsewhere in the Uncensored interview, Morgan asked Brand if he had thought about the possible reality of going to prison, to which Brand said: 'Yes… all the time, every day.'

Referring to his faith again he said: 'I will be with God wherever I am. And of course, I would prefer to be with God with my wife and my kids… I'm not saying that that's not a difficult image… of course it is.' 

Brand added: 'We are going to find out the truth, and we're going to deal with the truth… if the truth is I am going to prison, then I am.' 

He also admitted that it was 'not the morally sound thing to do' to sleep with a 16-year-old girl. 

Brand addressed his past admission that he had slept with the teenager when he was 30, a relationship unconnected to current court proceedings, saying in retrospect: 'No, I should not have been doing that.' 

In a recent documentary highlighting the story, it was reported the pair had dated for three months and the actor would send cars to her school to pick her up. 

Brand went on to say the context of his past actions was important, explaining many single, famous men have behaved in a similar way. 

He added: 'It's not very easy to live a moral life in a culture that really openly rewarded it. Were you still at The Sun when I was being Shagger of the Year? I was literally being given awards for it.'

Joking about winning The Sun's Shagger of the Year title three times, he said: 'Some of the glory's faded, amidst the rape allegations, the Shagger of the Year titles do not seem quite as valuable, I'll have to confess. Some of the shine's come off.'

The comedian said he now believes 'the only safe place to have sex is within marriage' and agreed with backlash in the US following a recent interview where he discussed the relationship.

Pressed on whether the encounter amounted to exploitation, Brand said the key issue was consent, noting the age of consent varies across jurisdictions. 

'In the place where I was… that was a legal thing to be doing, but not a morally sound thing to be doing,' he said.