Russell Brand shuts down addiction and mental health charity after sex abuse allegations

UNDER-fire comic Russell Brand has shut down his addiction and mental health support charity, it emerged yesterday.

The Charity Commission said it was told in September that the Stay Free Foundation “no longer operates”.

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It was removed from the register of charities officially last month.

Financial records show it had a total income of £126,130 as of June 2023 and £52,353 expenditure.

Brand has been outspoken in his memoirs and comedy shows about being rehabilitated from heroin addiction in 2003.

It comes after four women accused Brand, 49, of sexual assault between 2006 and 2013.

Brand vehemently denies the allegations and said all of his relationships have been “consensual”.

After a Channel 4 Dispatches exposé in 2023, several charities cut ties with Brand and the foundation.

Last month, the BBC apologised for a “culture of silence” about his behaviour.

Brand has since moved to the US with wife Laura and their children.