Katie Price weighs in on Russell Brand conviction as she reflects on why she didn't report rape after being attacked by a British TV star 20 years ago

Katie Price has weighed in on Russell Brand's conviction as she reflected on why she didn't report her rape after being attacked by a different British TV star 20 years ago.Brand, 51, was jailed for ten-and-a-half years at Southwark Crown Court on Monday after being convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault. Former glamour model Katie, 48, said last October that she hasn't reported the celebrity she claimed raped her to the police because she 'didn't want to get involved in it'. There is no suggestion Brand is the alleged celebrity.That week she had stunned a crowd of fans when she named the celebrity during her An Evening with Katie Price And Kerry Katona tour.In the wake of Brand's sentencing she has spoken further about her alleged experience on her The Katie Price Show podcast which she appears on with her sister Sophie.She said on Thursday: 'Obviously I met Russell Brand years ago a few times. My old security man Danny went on to do security for Russell.'Anyway, I'm glad he [Brand] got sentenced because of the victims. It means a lot for them. Katie Price has weighed in on Russell Brand's conviction as she reflected on why she didn't report her rape after being attacked by a different British TV star 20 years ago (seen on Loose Women together in 2017) That week she had stunned a crowd of fans when she named the British TV star during her An Evening with Katie Price And Kerry Katona tour'I just hope more victims come forward because there's been lots of drama series and stuff like that, true ones, where rape victims come through and they're not believed. And the police have mocked them and not believed them.'My advice to victims is please be strong and come through because if you do it will help other people to put away these predators. 'I believe there are more investigations now coming through with Russell Brand. I know cases where people have been found guilty in other courts but not the criminal court. And I always say for victims that sometimes if the person hasn't been found guilty in a criminal court it doesn't mean to say they're innocent. 'So, yeah, there's no smoke without fire in any case really. But yeah, I was shocked. I actually thought he'd get more [Brand] than 10 years.'Katie then claimed of her own experience: 'I think I've been quite lucky, I think because of my personality I would say something [if she felt she was going to be assaulted]... well apart from the presenter who everyone knows who did rape me and I didn't come forward then...'.Last October Katie revealed she hasn't reported the celebrity she claimed raped her to the police because she 'didn't want to get involved in it' – shortly after naming the star on stage during her tour.Speaking to her fans during her show in Scarborough the evening after, Katie addressed her confession from the previous night.She told the audience: 'He raped me and when it came out all my friends said I had got to go to police, but I did not go to the police because I did not want to get involved with it all.'According to The Sun, at the time Katie drew gasps from the crowd when she named her alleged attacker, who she claimed raped her 20 years ago, at her tour earlier that week. Last year she stunned a crowd of fans when she named the star she claimed raped her while on stage during her tour with Kerry (seen together) Katie – pictured back in 2004 – had always maintained that she wouldn't reveal who he was, but in 2024 she admitted she had changed her mind and would divulge in time Brand, 51, was jailed for ten-and-a-half years at Southwark Crown Court on Monday after being convicted of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assaultKatie first discussed the alleged rape in an OK! magazine column in 2009.Her words came in response to allegations that her then-partner Alex Reid had starred in a film which glorified rape.She said: 'Rape is a subject very close to my own heart. I was raped when I was younger, more than once. I'd never be associated with anything or anyone so sick.'I've never talked about this before, but I feel I have to now because I was so hurt by these accusations that I would not take a subject, which affects so many women, seriously.'I urge any woman who has been affected by rape and needs help to talk to somebody they trust about it.' In 2022, Katie said in her harrowing documentary Trauma And Me that she had been raped again during a horrifying carjacking in South Africa in 2018.She recalled the terrifying ordeal which saw her held at gunpoint during filming for her Quest Red reality show, My Crazy Life with ITV.She detailed the traumatic events that led her to reach breaking point, suffering a mental breakdown in 2018, and a failed suicide attempt where she 'knocked herself out and had black eyes' – after which she sought treatment for PTSD.Katie spoke about her triggers and suffering in the lead up to the crash.She told the Daily Mail: 'The experience when I was filming with ITV in South Africa, we had no security, if we had security they would have been able to deal with the six guys that jumped us, held me at gunpoint and raped me.'Katie was thrown out of the vehicle by the attackers, during her journey from Johannesburg to Swaziland in two people carriers with the production crew.The vehicles were ransacked of laptops, iPads, passports, cash and jewellery – but the robbers left behind a fortune in camera gear which the crew had stored on board. The attackers were never apprehended.She also discussed the rape during an episode of Channel 4's SAS: Celebrity Who Dares Wins in 2020, where she said: 'Police said it was a miracle they didn't kill us.'During her Channel 4 show Trauma And Me, she revealed: 'I hit severe depression a couple of years ago, depression on top of PTSD, I was suicidal, didn't want to be here. I tried to kill myself.'I knocked myself out and had black eyes. I had bruises around my neck. I woke up. I didn't want to be here.'Her stays at The Priory rehab clinic have been to treat her post traumatic stress disorder as she also added that through therapy she has learnt to deal with her past and recognise what triggers her.Katie detailed: 'I have had my eyes opened about a lot. When you go in The Priory, people assume that it must be for drinks or drugs.'I have never ever been in The Priory for drink, drugs or addiction. I have been in the priory for trauma rehabilitation for PTSD.'She continued: 'Because of what people believe, it affects me. There is a stigma that if you go in The Priory, you are a wrong 'un [one], but that's not true.'I think people who go in there are brave because they are facing their demons and whatever their problems are to make themselves a better person.'Mental health... it doesn't matter how big or how small they might seem, if it's big to someone then it's big to them. It's just different. Anything can happen.'Speaking about the dark place she experienced with her mental health at the time of her horrific drink-drive crash in 2021, Katie explained: 'I live in the countryside, I had no outlet, I needed to talk to someone and that night I let myself down.''I am not justifying anything, there was a reason why I got in the car and why my head was like that.'Unfortunately, I did get into that place. I would never get into that place again. It happened and it's real but I have learnt.'Katie suffered further torment when she was sexually assaulted with two friends when she was six.Speaking previously to Piers Morgan, she described how a man lured them into bushes as they played in a park, before offering to buy them an ice cream if they let him touch them.For support, you can call Rape Crisis England & Wales on 0808 500 2222.