Culture: Rebranding Russell Pays Off ; Wil Marlow Meets a Clean and Relatively Serene Russell Brand

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Russell Brand is drinking green tea. It's just one example of how the anarchic presenter and comedian's life has changed over the past few years - there was a time when everything that entered his body was intoxicating in some way.

Between drink and drugs, the stand-up comedian, who was also forging a presenting career at MTV, slowly destroyed that career, and nearly his life, throughout his mid 20s, culminating in the work finally drying up completely.

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Culture: Rebranding Russell Pays Off ; Wil Marlow Meets a Clean and Relatively Serene Russell Brand

"I thought I'd better go and get help at that point," recalls a healthy-looking and chipper, if rather humble, Russell.

"A lot of people get treatment because people force them, but I had to take the reins and go myself, and I went to a treatment centre called Focus for three months.

"It was re...

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