{"id":222422,"date":"2023-09-19T13:44:10","date_gmt":"2023-09-19T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/?p=222422"},"modified":"2023-09-19T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-19T13:44:10","slug":"inside-russell-brands-rocky-relationship-with-his-wifes-family","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allworldreport.com\/world-news\/inside-russell-brands-rocky-relationship-with-his-wifes-family\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Russell Brand's rocky relationship with his wife's family"},"content":{"rendered":"
Even before recent allegations rose up against Russell Brand, his relationship with his in-laws was rocky.<\/p>\n
Golf legend Bernard Gallacher, 87, ‘begged’ his daughter Laura to leave him when they first started dating – when she was a teenager and 13 years his junior.<\/p>\n
And while her older sister Kirsty, 47, very publicly backed her brother-in-law\u00a0when she re-posted the video along with a giant red love heart emoji – she removed it shortly after the full extent of the allegations were revealed.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0maverick actor and stand-up comic was accused this weekend of rape, sexual assault and emotional abuse from four women between 2006 to 2013 at the height of his fame.<\/p>\n
The allegations have sent shockwaves across the entertainment industry and have forced the BBC and Channel 4 – whom Brand worked for at the time – to launch urgent probes.<\/p>\n
And Brand’s wife Laura is yet to break her silence on the allegations and has deleted her Instagram, although friends claim she will stand by him.<\/p>\n
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Brand’s wife Laura is yet to break her silence on the allegations and has deleted her Instagram , although friends claim she will stand by him<\/p>\n
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Golf legend Bernard Gallacher, 87, ‘begged’ his daughter Laura to leave him when they first started dating – when she was a teenager and 13 years his junior. Pictured: A family photo, showing Laura (in red) with golf star dad Bernard, brother Jamie, big sister Kirsty and mum Lesley<\/p>\n
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Older sister Kirsty, 47, (left) very publicly backed her brother-in-law when she re-posted the video along with a giant red love heart emoji – she removed it shortly after the full extent of the allegations were revealed<\/p>\n
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Golf legend Bernard Gallacher, 87, ‘begged’ his daughter Laura to leave him when they first started dating – when she was a teenager and 13 years his junior<\/p>\n
Ms Gallacher, 36, a ‘mummy blogger’ and author of parenting book, The Joy Journal For Magical Everyday Play, is said to be ‘kind natured’ and despite coming from a high profile family, happy to stay out of the limelight.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The pair embarked on the relationship four times before finally making it stick in 2015 but now – expecting their third child and six years into their marriage – friends claim she has finally tamed the hellraising womaniser.<\/p>\n
They now live in a \u00a33million thatched house on the banks of the river near plush Henley-on-Thames – a far cry from his old bachelor pad in Shoreditch, a\u00a0fashionable part of east London.<\/p>\n
One friend said:\u00a0‘What Russell did was firmly in the past, way before he and Laura met.<\/p>\n
‘Of course it isn’t easy but they are determined to get through this.’<\/p>\n
Mr Gallacher – who captained the Ryder Cup team to victory over the Americans in 1995 – was not at first enchanted by\u00a0the match, which started in the winter of 2006 when his daughter was 18.<\/p>\n
They first met when Brand was on Radio 2 through her big sister Kirsty and they dated for a short time while she was a teenage art student.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The news of their relationship broke when the couple \u2014 their hair styled in matching messy top-knots \u2014 were spotted walking along a beach together in Mauritius.<\/p>\n
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While Kirsty has so far refused to comment allegations against Brand, friends say that Kirsty is a very loyal to her sister and enjoys a good relationship with her brother-in-law<\/p>\n
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Mr Gallacher – who captained the Ryder Cup team to victory over the Americans in 1995 – was not at first enchanted by the match<\/p>\n
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The pair started dating in the winter of 2006 when his daughter was 18. Pictured:\u00a0Gallacher family\u00a0demonstrate a defibrillator in 2013<\/p>\n
By early 2007, however, they had split, apparently at the behest of Bernard, who was concerned about the age gap and his daughter\u2019s relatively tender years.<\/p>\n
\u2018He begged her to end it,\u2019 a friend revealed at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Following their split Brand went off to Hollywood where he won a number of movie roles – including a whirlwind marriage with pop superstar Katy Perry.<\/p>\n
The relationship\u00a0fell apart inside 14 months\u00a0when Brand sent his wife a text asking her for a divorce.<\/p>\n
In the wake of the end of his marriage there has been no shortage of other women, an eclectic list ranging from Geri Halliwell to heiress Jemima Goldsmith.\u00a0<\/p>\n
While Kirsty has so far refused to comment allegations against Brand, friends say that Kirsty is a very loyal to her sister and enjoys a good relationship with her brother-in-law.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Along with her older sister and brother Jamie, a property surveyor, Laura was raised in middle-class comfort on the Wentworth estate, a leafy, luxurious enclave where neighbours include Elton John and Sir Cliff Richard.<\/p>\n
Laura attended the exclusive St George\u2019s School in Ascot, where contemporaries included Princess Beatrice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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The couple first met when Brand was on Radio 2 through her big sister Kirsty and they dated for a short time while she was a teenage art student<\/p>\n
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Brand (pictured in 2008)\u00a0went off to Hollywood following their split where he won a number of movie roles – including a whirlwind marriage with pop superstar Katy Perry<\/p>\n
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Former spouse Katy Perry and Russell Brand attend the 82nd Annual Academy Awards in LA on March 7, 2010<\/p>\n
Described as\u00a0a popular, bright and loving girl with a talent for catering and design, her father was unimpressed by her choice of man.<\/p>\n
One who knows him well told the Mail: \u2018Bernard is a very strait-laced guy, with no side to him. So in that sense he and Brand are chalk and cheese.\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n
But it did not take long for Brand and Laura to rekindle their relationship: a year after they first split, Brand whisked Laura, now 20, to a luxury five-star resort nestled in the Atlas mountains close to Marrakech.<\/p>\n
Friends spoke of the then 32-year-old comedian being ready to settle down.<\/p>\n
By early 2008 the couple had separated once more, although a year later, in April 2009, Laura was spotted leaving Brand\u2019s East London home several times in the space of a fortnight.<\/p>\n
But the Gallacher family were hit with a nasty shock when in August 2013\u00a0Bernard suffered a heart attack as he was delivering an after-dinner speech in Aberdeen.<\/span><\/p>\n Hotel staff acted swiftly, deploying a defibrillator, but his life hung in the balance for several days while his family kept a vigil at his bedside. Discharged after two weeks, he acknowledged that life had taken on a new meaning.<\/p>\n \u2018Each day is a bonus. I feel blessed, I suppose, lucky that I\u2019m still around,\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Brand leaves the Troubabour Wembley Park theatre in north-west London after performing a comedy set on Saturday as he faced\u00a0claims about his sexual behaviour at the height of his fame<\/p>\n <\/p>\n It did not take long for Brand (pictured in 2006) and Laura to rekindle their relationship: a year after they first split, Brand whisked Laura, now 20, to a luxury five-star resort nestled in the Atlas mountains close to Marrakech<\/p>\n \u2018My family are the ones that have actually been affected more than me because I was out of it. It\u2019s probably been hardest for them, the people closest to me,\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n It was a sentiment echoed by eldest daughter Kirsty when, less than a year after her father\u2019s heart attack, she split from Paul Sampson, her husband of four years and father to their two young children, after 14 years together \u2014 a decision she attributed to her father\u2019s illness.<\/p>\n In the Summer of 2015, Laura and Brand were spotted walking arm in arm in the village of Baltonsborough in Somerset.<\/p>\n By Christmas, Laura was ensconced at the Henley mansion into which Brand moved in the autumn and as the new year dawned, she was pregnant.<\/p>\n At the time Mr Gallacher – talking about his daughter’s pregnancy –\u00a0told the Mail that he and wife Lesley were \u2018very happy\u2019 about the \u2018positive\u2019 news.<\/p>\n