Brand's ex Jemima Goldsmith accuses him of violence and abuse against her

An ex-girlfriend of Russell Brand has accused him of "violence, coercive control and abuse" while the two were together.

Jemima Goldsmith, who dated the disgraced entertainer for roughly a year around 2014, alleged 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.

In a lengthy statement on social media, 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".

Brand, 51, was sentenced to 10-and-a-half years in prison earlier on Monday after being convicted of rape and sexual assault.

He was found guilty of anally raping a woman at his home in 2009, as well as three counts of sexual assault against three other women.

The judge at the sentencing hearing told Brand that he harboured a "casual arrogant disregard to any woman's right to say no to you", while his fame meant he believed "you could act when you liked and how you liked".

Goldsmith said she had chosen not to pursue legal recourse against Brand over the alleged violent incident in 2014 as she was "worried about the impact of the press attention on my then teenage children".

She wrote on X on Monday evening: "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."

Goldsmith said she had not seen nor spoken to Brand since 2014, but claimed to have assisted the journalists who exposed the allegations against him and had been willing to testify to his "abusiveness" were they sued.

In her statement, she also addressed reports of an injunction taken out by her and Brand in October 2015 that banned a woman, Szilvia Berki, from talking about an alleged assault by Brand at Goldsmith's home the prior year - including to police.

Goldsmith said on Monday that Berki had visited her house for roughly 30 minutes on 7 June 2014 to give Brand a massage.

Goldsmith said that Berki later told police that Brand had pushed her in the back while she had been leaving and that she had been attacked by Goldsmith's dog. Brand's ex-girlfriend said she "did not see anything untoward" during the encounter.

She added that, after providing a statement and CCTV footage, police concluded that there was no case to answer.

Goldsmith accused Berki of then sending a series of "vicious antisemitic and threatening" messages and posting "wild and untrue allegations" about her on social media.

She said she then agreed to a suggestion from Brand's lawyer to seek an injunction to prevent harassment. She claimed on Monday that recent media reporting of the injunction had opened her up "to vile hatred and abuse online".

Brand's sentencing hearing heard victim impact statements from the women he had been accused of assaulting.

One of them said she was "upset and traumatised" for years after the incident, adding: "I didn't have any respect for myself. I was thinking I was damaged goods - scared of giving off signals that could be taken the wrong way."

The woman he was found guilty of raping said the trauma was something she had to "carry every day".

A van believed to be carrying Brand was seen arriving at HMP Wandsworth in London on Monday after the sentencing hearing.