RUSSELL Brand had an “insane sexual appetite” and treated women poorly, his former PA told his rape trial yesterday.
Helen Berger described him as a “peacock” who would allegedly find random women online to satisfy his lust.
Ms Berger, who worked with the comedian from June 2006 to February 2007, said: “Though I’ve worked with a lot of celebrities before and seen a lot of people normalising bad behaviour, this was on another level.”
In a statement read to Southwark crown court, she said Brand, now 51, was having sex day and night and described him getting “antsy” on deadlines.
She said he would joke: “May I go and have sex now?”
But she said sexual activity would also make him depressed.
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Ms Berger, who worked for Brand through his agent John Noel, told the court she would often be called to go to the comedian’s flat in Camden, North London, where she found he was always in his underwear.
She described seeing him use MySpace to find women and invite them over for sex.
She also recalled being instructed to get phone numbers for Brand from female fans when she first started working for him but said she felt uncomfortable and told him she would not do it anymore.
Ms Berger said she quit working for Brand within months because she became sick of him.
She wrote: “I worked a lot and was exhausted, emotional, and it was a lot to deal with.
“I always had to manage my emotions around him. He had an insane sexual appetite and was sleeping with people day and night.
“He was very open about what his needs were. We didn’t have a specific conversation about it.”
Brand, supported in court by wife Laura Gallacher, denies three rapes, three sexual assaults and indecent assault on six women between 1999 and 2009.
Mr Justice Bennathan told jurors the defence case would begin today.