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Variety @Variety - Russell Brand admits he slept with a 16-year-old when he was 30 and that it was “exploitative.”
“Thank you, Megyn Kelly, for giving me the grace to address, in particular, your anger, which is entirely legitimate and recognizable,” he said on “The Megyn Kelly Show.” “And the plain fact of it is that in Europe and in the United Kingdom, where I’m from, the age of consent is 16, and I did sleep with a 16-year-old when I was 30. But when I was 30, I was a very different person. I was a lot younger, and I was an immature 30-year-old.”
“Consensual sex, actually, with a variety of people when there is a strong power differential, because there is when you’re a famous man that has the ability to attract women that I had at that time, I think involves exploitation. I think it is exploitative. I recognize that my sexual conduct in the past was selfish and I did not apply enough consideration, barely any, I suppose, really, to how that sex was affecting other people.”
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/russell-brand-slept-with-16-year-old-exploitative-1236728354/
https://x.com/Variety/status/2047117005795496315

Vatican News @VaticanNews - The schedule for Pope Leo XIV’s pastoral visit to Pompeii and Naples on May 8 - the first anniversary of his election - has been released.
https://www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news/2026-04/programme-published-for-pope-leo-s-visit-to-naples-and-pompeii.html
https://x.com/VaticanNews/status/2047644472125821081

Vatican News @VaticanNews - Gospel of the Day (John 6,52-59)
The Jews quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his Flesh to eat?"
Jesus said to them, "Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him on the last day.
For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink.
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me and I in him.