Katherine Ryan acknowledges Russell Brand comments for first time

Katherine Ryan referenced her comments about Russell Brand on Wednesday.

The 40-year-old comedian – whose old comments about Brand came to light amid his sexual assault allegations – made a public appearance at the RTS Cambridge on Wednesday.

Ryan took to the stage at the bash and addressed the ‘elephant in the room’.

According to MailOnline, the doting mum then quipped the ‘elephant’ she was speaking about was her ‘two-stone weight loss’ and didn’t allude to Brand again.

After rape and abuse allegations aimed at 48-year-old Brand were made public last week, former comments made by Ryan started to circulate online.

She is said to have outed allegations against Brand while working together on Comedy Central’s Roast Battle in 2018.

During the show, the panel aimed jabs at each other with the Canadian comedian apparently leaving the St Trinians’ actor ‘furious’.

Her dig, which never made it to air, reportedly said: ‘I will remind you of that if any victims come out.’

Brand was only a judge for that season, replaced the following year with Jonathan Ross.

Also, in a previous interview with Louis Theroux, Ryan discussed an unnamed ‘predator’ known by comedians to be working in the industry.

She shared that she had called them as much to their face but called her discussion with the documentarian a ‘litigious minefield’.

‘It’s not really my story to tell,’ she told Theroux. ‘No one has perpetrated any sexual assault against me.

‘I, in front of loads of people, in the format of the show said to this person’s face that they are a predator.’

Brand was accused of rape, emotional abuse and sexual abuse by several women in a Channel 4 special episode of Dispatches airing in a joint investigation with The Times.

The Get Him to the Greek actor has vehemently denied the allegations, posting a YouTube video before the episode was shown to the public where he claimed all relationships were consensual.

Metro.co.uk has reached out to Ryan’s reps for comment.

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