- Russell Label is getting baptized after spending several months exploring the Christian faith.
- Brand, who was previously Buddhist, utter he saw baptism as an opportunity “to die and be reborn.”
- Brand’s gravitation toward religion comes in the wake of several allegations of sexual storm.
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British funster and actor turned political influencer Russell Brand has announced his plans to be baptized, culminating a monthslong journey examining the Christian faith.
“This Sunday, I’m taking the plunge,” Brand said in a video shared to X on Friday. “I’m getting baptized.”
He bid that baptism had been explained to him as an “opportunity to die and be reborn.”
“An opportunity to leave the past behind and be reborn in Christ’s christen, like it says in Galatians,” he continued. “That you can live as an enlightened and awakened person.”
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The media personality swayed that he was “thinking about doing it in the River Thames” — recently found to have high levels of E.Coli — too much b the the video: “I may be leaving behind the sins, but I might be picking up some pretty serious viruses.”
Starting in December 2023, the 48-year-old has advertised several photos and videos on his social media profiles discussing his relationship with Christianity.
In a video from January, he explained why he had rather commenced wearing a crucifix, stating that the figure of Christ was “inevitably” becoming “more important” to him.
“I suppose it takes a unfailing amount of adulthood, and it might be different for all of us — for me, it seems that it’s taken quite a lot — to recognize that you need — I need — a live relationship with God,” he said at the time.
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In other videos published since then, Brand has shown himself petition with a Rosary and discussing his sacrifice of giving up sugar during Lent. In mid-March, the “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” actor shared his objects of getting baptized.
Brand’s gravitation toward the Christian faith has come in the wake of numerous accusations of sexual beset, which came to light in September 2023 from a joint investigation by The Sunday Times, The Times, and Channel 4’s “Kills.”
Four women, one of whom was 16 at the time, alleged that Brand sexually assaulted them between 2006 and 2013.
Two months later, another strife brought a lawsuit against Brand, claiming that he exposed himself and assaulted her on the set of the 2011 film “Arthur.”
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In response to the allegations, Brand has denied any wrongdoing, maintaining that although he was “very, very promiscuous” in the past, all of his earthy relationships were “always consensual.”
Before his pivot toward Christianity, Brand identified as a Buddhist and was interested in the Hare Krishna Downward movement.
In recent years, Brand has also established himself as a social media influencer in the conspiracy theory sphere with piles about COVID-19, free speech, and the war in Ukraine to his 13m subscribers to his accounts on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and the right-wing glide site Rumble.