{"id":84884,"date":"2026-04-27T04:33:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/russell-brand-finds-allusive-piers-morgan-interview-bible-verse\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T04:33:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T04:33:14","slug":"russell-brand-finds-allusive-piers-morgan-interview-bible-verse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/russell-brand-finds-allusive-piers-morgan-interview-bible-verse\/","title":{"rendered":"Russell Brand Finds Allusive Piers Morgan Interview Bible Verse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Russell Brand<\/strong> was finally able to locate the allusive Bible verse he claims he read while appearing in court on rape and sexual assault charges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still looking for that passage actually from my dire\u2026 from <em>Piers Morgan<\/em>. Wait for it\u2026 wait for it. Look, it was marked all along,\u201d Brand, 50, said in a video shared via X on Sunday, April 26. \u201cI was looking for it. I thought, \u2018I should find the actual right passage \u2014 the exact one I was looking at when I was sat in the dark in the court.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During a Friday, April 24, interview on <em>Piers Morgan Uncensored<\/em>, host <strong>Piers Morgan<\/strong> asked the former comedian-turned-right-wing podcaster about the Bible he took to a February court hearing on charges of rape and sexual assault. When Brand was asked to name a verse that spoke to him during the proceedings \u2014 the Bible was confiscated when he was reading it in court \u2014 Brand fumbled for around 90 seconds, unable to locate the verse.<\/p>\n<p>The incident went viral almost immediately, with many pointing to the moment as proof that Brand is using his newfound Christian faith as a smokescreen after he was accused of rape and sexual assault by multiple women.<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Russell-Brand-Once-Called-Diddy-Very-Intense.jpg?crop=0px%2C64px%2C2000px%2C1131px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"Russell Brand Once Called Diddy Very Intense\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/Russell-Brand-Once-Called-Diddy-Very-Intense.jpg?quality=55&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Russell Brand Once Called Diddy &#8216;Very Intense&#8217; in Resurfaced Interview<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMelMedia\/Getty Images; Kevin Mazur\/Getty Images Fourteen years before Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs was arrested on charges of sex trafficking and racketeering, his Get Him to the Greek costar Russell Brand called the music mogul \u201cvery intense.\u201d \u201cDiddy, he\u2019s new to me,\u201d Brand, now 49, told BlackTree TV in a May 2010 interview. \u201cHe looked after me. [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know, maybe you\u2019ve never been in the dark in a court accused of really heavy stuff,\u201d Brand continued on Sunday. \u201cIn the UK, in a crown court you\u2019re in a glass box. And I\u2019m not sure if I found it right there in that moment but this was the verse I was looking at that day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brand then went on to read Isiah 43:18-19 from his Bible, showing in the video parts of the passage that were underlined and clearly marked.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4320157\" style=\"width: 900px;\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<div class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\" style=\"padding-bottom:64.142857142857%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-4320157\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"GettyImages-2262757823 russell brand bible verse\" width=\"1000\" height=\"642\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=100&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 100w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=300&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 300w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=500&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 500w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=600&amp;quality=70&amp;strip=all 600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=700&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 700w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=900&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 900w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=1000&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1000w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=1200&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1200w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=1400&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1400w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=1600&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1600w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=1800&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1800w, https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/GettyImages-2262757823-russell-brand-bible-verse.jpg?w=1920&amp;quality=86&amp;strip=all 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) calc(100vw - 6em), (max-width: 1000px) 80vw, 1000px\"\/><\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"caption\"><br \/>\n Russell Brand (R) arrives to attend a one-day plea and trial preparation hearing holding a Bible<\/span> <span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cForget the former things; do not dwell on the past,\u201d he began. \u201cSee, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brand then went on to wonder out loud if any of his fans or followers have believed that what they \u201cpersonally face will align and combine with something universal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat our whole culture is a bit like a wasteland?\u201d he continued. \u201cI mean, the political scene \u2014 both globally and domestically, wherever you are, but also, you know, globally. And sort of personally\u2026 this isn\u2019t a great time in the world. It\u2019s like the Roaring \u201820s but again the Roaring \u201820s was between the wars.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cAnd maybe from a macro perspective or a holy perspective the world has always been caught in such tension and indeed that is exactly what this book and the prophecies of Isiah posit \u2014 that it\u2019s not some localized thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former actor went on to talk about the belief that the world has been \u201ccaptured and conquered by dark forces\u201d \u2014 a belief he associated with a \u201cconspiratorial perspective in a post-Epstein world,\u201d referring to the late convicted sex offender <strong>Jeffrey Epstein<\/strong>, who died by suicide while awaiting trial for child sex trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll of that is iterated theologically, historically and scripturally,\u201d Brand added. \u201cEven though I find those words sort of difficult. So the answer is in here \u2014 it\u2019s like access to the most divine truth that is already within you. It\u2019s a kind of coming home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He concluded, \u201cI\u2019m sorry it took me so long to find it on Piers Morgan. I think it was the pressure of the circumstances.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/king-charles-prince-andrew-1189984915.jpg?crop=0px%2C62px%2C1568px%2C885px&amp;resize=400%2C225&amp;quality=40&amp;strip=all\" srcset=\"\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 400px, (max-width: 770px) calc(100vw - 6em), 200px\" alt=\"King Charles and Prince Andrew\" width=\"400\" height=\"225\" data-fallback-img=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/king-charles-prince-andrew-1189984915.jpg?quality=55&amp;strip=all\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">King Charles Heckled Over Prince Andrew&#8217;s Ties to the Late Jeffrey Epstein<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tKing Charles cannot escape the continued media attention on his brother Prince Andrew\u2019s longstanding friendship with the late convicted pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. \u201cHow long have you known about Andrew and Epstein?\u201d an individual shouted at Charles, 76, as the royal greeted the public outside Lichfield Cathedral in Staffordshire on Monday, October 27, per footage shared [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Brand is facing trial over allegations of rape and sexual assault made by six women. He has denied all of the charges, which date from 1999 to 2009.<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>During a recent interview with former Fox News host <strong>Megyn Kelly<\/strong>, Brand again denied the allegations against him while admitting he had sex with a 16 year old when he was 30.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe plain fact of it is that in Europe and in the United Kingdom, where I\u2019m from, the age of consent is 16. And I did sleep with a 16-year-old when I was 30,\u201d Brand said on the Wednesday, April 22, episode of <em>The Megyn Kelly Show<\/em>. \u201cWhen I was 30, I was a very different person. I was a lot younger, and I was an immature 30-year-old.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>If you or someone you know has been sexually assaulted, contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673).<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russell Brand was finally able to locate the allusive Bible verse he claims he read while appearing in court on rape and sexual assault charges. \u201cI\u2019m still looking for that passage actually from my dire\u2026 from Piers Morgan. Wait for it\u2026 wait for it. 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