Russell Brand comments on Katy Perry split Russell Brand has spoken about his split from Katy Perry for the first time at the Television Critics Association Press Tour. The comedian/actor had plenty of slightly bizarre quips for the press up his sleeve, quoted by Digital Spy as saying on his divorce: "Are you asking because of recent events? Well I suppose what you're doing is you're making the mistake of seeing time as linear. The brilliant American author Kurt Vonnegut, he'll tell you that if you imagine reality as experienced simultaneously, events become redundant. Brand and Perry split after around a year of marriage in December following months of rumoured marital problems.