Katy Perry 'in the room' during one of Russell Brand's attacks

Published: 18:45 EDT, 5 November 2026 | Updated: 20:51 EDT, 5 November 2026 Katy Perry was all but airbrushed from her ex-husband's trial but the pop star may have witnessed one of his attacks, it can now be revealed.In legal argument ahead of the case going before a jury, it was claimed Ms Perry may have been in the room when Russell Brand put his head in a woman's lap during filming for Channel 4.Ian Winter KC, defending, said of the 2009 incident: 'She [the victim] says that other people were in the room and witnessed it, possibly including the defendant's future wife, Ms Katy Perry.'But Scotland Yard never asked for a statement from the singer, 42.And reference to the pop star's presence was removed from the trial after submissions by Brand's legal team. Pictured: Katy Perry and Russell Brand MTV Europe Music Awards, Madrid, Spain - Nov 2010Prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones KC agreed to remove her name from the proceedings, saying: 'For the avoidance of doubt, the prosecution recognise that matters post-2009 involving his relationship with Katy Perry may be sensitive, as may his previous faiths, and we are content to remove these.'The pair met in 2009 on the set of Get Him To The Greek, and married in a traditional Hindu ceremony in Rajasthan, India, the following year.But their marriage was over just 14 months later and they divorced in 2012.Jurors were also blocked from hearing details of Brand's addiction to drink and drugs before his conversion to Christianity in 2024.Senior Crown prosecutor David Roberts said: 'We followed all reasonable lines of inquiry in statements that would have been relevant to the specific charges and I'm satisfied that all reasonable lines of inquiry were covered.'READ MORE: From Burnham to Miliband, how the Left prostrated themselves before Brand the seedy MessiahREAD MORE: T for Tart: What Russell Brand called victim in his phone contacts Brand seemed to age 1,000 years in three weeks. At the end he looked hollowed out, his wattage dimmed, his dandy highwayman swagger just a memory: JAN MOIR READ MORE: Downfall of Russell Brand the rapist: The swaggering sex predator fawned over by the Left is facing many years in jail, financial ruin and new chargesREAD MORE: I covered every day of the Russell Brand trial... no amount of prayers were ever going to save himREAD MORE: The wife who stood by Russell Brand's side: How 'mummy blogger' Laura Gallacher, and her golfer father Bernard, supported comedian during rape trialBeginnings of Brand's depravity: How his sex-obsessed father Ron paid for a prostitute for his 17-year-old son, sparking a lifelong compulsion to use and abuse women: ALISON BOSHOFFREAD MORE: Russell Brand's strange entourage of God-fearing misfits who attended court with him every dayREAD MORE: Brand's Florida reinvention as a 'saviour in swimwear' who preached on the beach, baptised young women in the ocean and cosied up to MAGA and the manosphere