Mia Latter revealed her identity two decades after her relationship with Russell Brand ended, detailing alleged abuse that occurred when she was 16 years old.
The disclosure follows Brand’s sentencing to 10 years and six months in prison after a conviction on one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault, as reported by Us Weekly. Brand has consistently denied all criminal wrongdoing.
Meeting in Leicester Square
Latter, now 37, said that she met Brand in Leicester Square in 2006 when she was a schoolgirl studying for her AS-level exams and he was 30 years old, according to The Independent.
She gave the comedian her number, initiating a three-month relationship that she said caused her grades to plummet, forced her to drop out of school, and left her struggling with depression, Page Six reported. Latter told the outlet she “didn’t complete [her] A-levels” and “I don’t even know to this day how I did.”
During an outing at a Spanish restaurant early in their connection, Latter claimed Brand told a male friend in front of her, “I don’t give a f*** how old you are. I just need to know where I stand legally.”
The Alleged Assaults
Latter described an incident where she resisted returning to his place, only for Brand to push her away while performing oral sex.
She recalled closing her legs and trying to push him off before he responded “No,” promising that nothing else would happen and that a cab would pick her up afterward, according to Page Six. “Ultimately, he did get his penis out, but I didn’t touch it. And then my car came,” Latter said.
Toward the end of their time together, Latter alleged that Brand sexually assaulted her in a more severe manner.
“He ended up forcing me against the headboard [of the bed] and I couldn’t move, and he orally raped me — and I was choking and crying. I was trying to push him off, so he knew that I didn’t want him to be doing that, and so then I ended up having to hit him in the stomach to get him off,” Latter told TMZ.
She said that Brand responded to that resistance by saying, “I just wanted to see your mascara run.”
Prosecutors Excluded Latter's Allegations from the Criminal Trial
Latter shared her allegations with the Metropolitan Police, but prosecutors ultimately did not include her case in the criminal trial that led to Brand’s conviction at Southwark Crown Court.
“They [the police] wanted me to be part of a subsequent trial, but they said that the decision was made [not to include her in the first trial] after he had done the Megyn Kelly and the Piers Morgan interviews,” Latter told Us Weekly.
She added that she was devastated to learn she would not make the October trial because officials feared it would become “the Alice show,” referencing the pseudonym she used in initial investigative reports by The Times, The Sunday Times, and a Channel 4 Dispatches documentary.
Earlier in 2026, Brand addressed the relationship during an appearance on The Megyn Kelly Show, acknowledging that he slept with a 16-year-old when he was 30 and noting that the age of consent in the United Kingdom is 16. In the wake of Brand’s conviction and subsequent prison sentence, Kelly defended the comedian on her YouTube show, stating she did not believe the charges.
Her Advocacy
Latter is now campaigning for a staggered age of consent that would bar relationships between adults and minors aged 16 and 17. She told The Sunday Times: “Well, actually something illegal happened within that relationship.”
“I’d waited since I was 16 thinking, ‘It’s gonna happen soon — somebody’s gonna out him’ … I feel like justice has been served,” Latter told Page Six.
“That really doesn’t seem like a gigantic leap to take,” Kelly said.
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