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(CP) Popular TV host and writer Bear Grylls not too long ago defended his help for good friend and actor Russell Brand in his newfound religion regardless of allegations of rape and sexual assault in opposition to the embattled comic.
“Russell, you recognize, [it was] a privilege to face beside him as he was getting baptized; that could be a life journey for him,” Grylls, 50, informed the Australian version of The Daily Telegraph.
“I actually want him properly and his pretty household,” Grylls added.
Grylls, an outspoken religious Christian and the son of a former Conservative member of the United Kingdom Parliament, was one in all two associates who assisted in Brand’s baptism within the River Thames this previous April.
The subsequent week, Brand posted a picture on Instagram of himself embracing Grylls and his different good friend instantly after his baptism, writing, “Me, Bear Grylls, The River Thames and naturally, The Holy Spirit.”
Brand’s baptism got here lower than a yr after a joint investigation by The Times, The Sunday Times and Channel 4’s Dispatches reported on allegations from 4 girls who accused Brand of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse.
Brand has denied the “very severe prison allegations” and confessed that whereas he was “very, very promiscuous” previously, his sexual encounters had been “at all times consensual.”
Grylls grew to become associates after Brand was a visitor on Grylls’ in style actuality TV present “Running Wild with Bear Grylls.”
“Let’s hope all of that stuff works itself out in a great way,” Grylls mentioned of the allegations in opposition to Brand. “And let’s hope these accusations aren’t true, for everyone’s sake, however I at all times attempt to dwell with out judging anybody.”
“I stand beside many individuals … that is a privilege, making an attempt by no means to judge, at all times to like, at all times be form, help folks wherever they’re.”
After the picture of Brand’s baptism went viral, Grylls stepped down from his place of chief scout of the U.Ok.-based Scout Association, in line with The Independent.
“Faith and religious moments in our lives are actually private,” Grylls informed the Daily Mail on the time of Brand’s baptism. “But it’s a privilege to face beside anybody after they categorical a humble want for forgiveness and energy from above.”
“Friendships once we undergo robust occasions are value a lot,” he added.
Brand has remained vocal since his current Christian conversion, saying throughout a current dialog that he’s “within the enterprise of serving Jesus.”
“In surrendering to Christ, there’s something extraordinary about saying there may be this man, one other man, fully God, fully man,” Brand mentioned. “But by way of some obligatory, extraordinary, metaphysical act simply past the sting of rational understanding got here the Creator of this simulation got here into the simulation and informed us ‘Hello, I’m God. I’ve come right here. Here are some virtues and values.'”
Brand referenced Twentieth-century writer and theologian C.S. Lewis, whose books The Problem of Pain and Mere Christianity he has publicly promoted.
“C.S. Lewis talks in regards to the ‘stoics period’ … to think about that one would possibly be capable of do at all times what one can do generally. You know, there are occasions the place it is like … ‘I’m not within the enterprise of Russell Brand anymore,” Brand mentioned.
“I’m within the enterprise of service. Serve Jesus Christ. And it is such a robust concept that I’m held alive by it. But certainly, this parasite nature grips me once more, and I return to egotism. I return to wanting and longing and concern. And all of these limiting issues.”
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