Police have confirmed they asked Russell Brand to leave his ex-girlfriend Jemima Goldsmith’s house in 2014 after she reported an alleged assault.
Thames Valley Police said officers were contacted by the alleged victim on 25 July 2014 but no arrests were made.
Brand was asked to leave the Oxfordshire address “as per the victim’s wishes”, the police added in a statement on Wednesday.
Goldsmith, who dated the disgraced entertainer for roughly a year, wrote on X on Monday that she “had to call the police to have him removed from my house in 2014 during a violent incident” but chose not to press charges.
Brand was jailed for 10-and-a-half years for rape and sexual assault on Monday.
In her post, the 52-year-old said she was “in awe of the courageous women who came forward at Brand’s trial” and was “glad and relieved” he had “finally faced justice”.
She wrote: “I have had my own personal experience of his violence, coercive control and abuse.
“I had to call the police to have him removed from my house in 2014 during a violent incident.
“I chose not to press charges at the time and not to go public with this, as I was worried about the impact of the press attention on my then teenage children.
“I have neither seen nor spoken to Brand since that period in 2014. Whilst my pain in relation to this, pales in comparison to what the women have testified in court have suffered, this was a difficult period in my life which has had a lasting impact.”
Goldmsith added that she had “assisted the journalists who finally exposed him”, and had been willing to testify to his “abusiveness” if they were sued.