Russell Model bragged about kissing Meghan Markle earlier than scandal

Russell Model as soon as “snogged” Meghan Markle.

Throughout a 2018 interview that has resurfaced amid his rape scandal, the comic bragged about kissing the Duchess of Sussex almost a decade prior.

“She was in a movie that I used to be in … ‘Get Him to the Greek’ it was referred to as. Bloody good movie,” he stated on the British speak present “Free Girls” only a week earlier than Markle married Prince Harry.

“I didn’t know her on the time as a result of she wasn’t married to a royal individual, so I wasn’t paying consideration,” Model famous.

The previous actress had an uncredited look within the 2010 film. She didn’t get her massive break till her present “Fits” premiered the next 12 months.

Model admitted he didn’t “bear in mind the movie that a lot” as a result of he was “nonetheless out of it,” referencing his previous struggles with dependancy.

Nevertheless, the actor recalled, “I believe I planted one on her within the scene. … It was scripted within the scene. I solely know this as a result of I believe I noticed a clip of it someplace.”

Model then jokingly advised that if the archbishop at Markle and Harry’s royal marriage ceremony have been to ask whether or not anybody had objections to the couple saying “I do,” somebody ought to shout out, “Yeah, Russell Model snogged her in that movie!”

Over the weekend, the “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” star, 48, was the topic of a scathing article and TV particular that accused him of abusive conduct together with rape, sexual assault and grooming a 16-year-old between the years of 2006 and 2013.

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Model, who was married to Katy Perry from 2010 to 2012, vehemently denied the accusations and insisted that each one of his sexual encounters and relationships have been consensual.

“These allegations pertain to the time once I was working within the mainstream, once I was within the newspapers on a regular basis, once I was within the films, and as I’ve written about extensively in my books, I used to be very, very promiscuous,” he acknowledged in a video that he posted on-line earlier than the bombshell exposé got here out.

“Now throughout that point of promiscuity, the relationships I had have been completely, all the time consensual. I used to be all the time clear about that then … and to see that transparency metastasized into one thing legal, that I completely deny, makes me query, is there one other agenda at play?”

Perry, 38, has not addressed the scandal.