Russell Brand‘s wife, Laura Gallacher, took the stand to defend her husband at his rape and sexual assault trial in London on Thursday, calling him an “amazing husband.”
Speaking in court on Thursday, Gallacher — who has been married to Brand since 2017 and shares three children with him — recalled how the two first met at his “highly explicit” comedy show in 2006, when she was 19 and he was 31, according to Sky News. They began dating and told each other they loved each other, but it was “difficult for him to be monogamous,” she said. They then split in 2007.
Asked by defense lawyer Ian Winter KC about their marriage, Gallacher — who has been by Brand’s side nearly every day of the trial so far — called him “caring and kind,” an “amazing husband” and a “wonderful father.”
“As I became more successful and famous I was very comfortable allowing that to facilitate sexual access, which I agree with you was wrong,” he said. “I do recognize I have been a very determined and focused man … With women — of course, which is the subject of my trial — I’ve been persuasive, seductive, begging and flirting, and dedicated a lot of my life to what seems now beyond reckless, philandering and idiocy.”
The jury is expected to start deliberating a verdict as soon as Tuesday.
