Comedian Russell Brand went on Howard Stern's Sirius/XM radio show thinking he was going to promote his new FX
show "Brand X."
Instead, Stern peppered the funnyman with dozens
of questions about the details of the divorce as Brand tried to resist
the classic Howard charm with self-deprecation and honesty about the
split.
"I
loved her so much, it just seemed like the sensible thing to do [when
we got married] ... I just loved her so much," Brand said about the
"overwhelming" sense of affection he had for the singer when they
tied the knot in India
two years ago. But once they were husband and wife, Brand admitted
that he realized, "this isn't really working out, it's a difficult
situation ... I was really, really in love with her, but it was
difficult to see each other ... We were together when it was right to be
together, and when it wasn't we worked it out ... It was a lovely
relationship ... it mostly didn't work for practical reasons ... We did
work it out, she's happy, I'm happy."
With Brand working on movies and Perry in the studio and on the road,
the long distance relationship thing just took a toll on the couple.
"She's young, successful and dedicated," he said of his former wife's
ambition and drive. "[The reality is] you can't fully understand it
until you do it. I was really into the idea of marriage and having
children."
Brand said he's still dedicated to the idea of being a
dad and revealed that he and Perry did discuss starting a family, but he
declined to give any details about those talks in order to avoid
bruising feelings. "I don't want anything to hurt her," he said. "She's
younger than me, she's a young woman and she's beautiful and she's
sensitive and I care about her deeply ... I don't want to be too glib,"
he said about fears that Perry would read second-hand tabloid accounts
of his Stern interview that will twist his words around. "She'll read it
and she'll be sad and I don't want that."
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