Vanessa Feltz says Brand remarks ended their friendship

Vanessa Feltz said Russell Brand’s sexual remarks during a 2006 interview led her to end their friendship that night. She recalled that Brand asked on air whether he could have sex with her and her daughters, including her younger daughter, who was 15 at the time. Feltz said she was horrified and did not consider the remarks funny.

The exchange took place on Brand’s MTV chat show, 1 Leicester Square. In the resurfaced clip, Brand asks whether he can have sex with Feltz or her daughters. Feltz tells him no, and repeats her refusal as he presses the question and calls her selfish. Brand later says he is joking. The reports describe the exchange, but Feltz’s account of her reaction and decision to end the friendship comes from her own recollections.

Speaking on her LBC radio show, Feltz said she could not laugh off the comments, even as the audience responded. She said the conversation marked the point when she stopped being friendly with Brand. She also recalled in a television interview that she had once found him entertaining and charismatic, but said the remarks did not seem like a joke to her.

Feltz also discussed her account of being assaulted by Rolf Harris while appearing on...