Jordan Martin, who dated Russell Brand for several months in 2007, claims in a new Netflix documentary that he married Katy Perry because he wanted a famous wife. Speaking in Russell Brand: Open Secret, Martin said Brand had “always wanted” to be married to someone famous and told her so repeatedly.
Us Weekly said it reached out to representatives for both Brand and Perry.
Jordan Martin Reveals Brand’s Fame Motivations in New Documentary
Martin’s relationship with Brand overlapped with his breakthrough. He was filming Forgetting Sarah Marshall in Hawaii. According to Page Six, she said he summoned her to the set so someone would stop him from “trying it on” with people there.
Then came the line that stuck.
“He said to me I should be dating somebody more famous than you,” Martin recalled in the film, as quoted by Us Weekly. A year later, Brand met Perry on the set of Get Him to the Greek. They married in India in October 2010.
Martin’s claim reframes that wedding as the endpoint of a plan he had been describing out loud for years.
Brand’s Controlling Behavior During Their Relationship
Jordan Martin described the Hawaii trip as traumatic. She said Brand accused her of dressing like an attention seeker and told her he was uncomfortable with her sunbathing. She was his girlfriend, invited to keep him in line, and then criticized for being looked at.
Perry used similar language years earlier. Page Six resurfaced her 2013 Vogue interview, where she said Brand disliked her being the boss on tour. “It was very controlling, which was upsetting,” she told the magazine. She also said he wanted an equal at first, then could not handle having one.
Two women, six years apart, describing the same pattern. Martin was told she was not famous enough. Perry was famous enough, and that became the problem.
Fourteen months. That is how long Perry and Brand stayed married. He allegedly ended it by text in late 2011, and cameras filming her 2012 documentary Katy Perry: Part of Me caught her reaction. Their divorce was finalized in 2012.
Katy Perry Faces Questions About Her Silence on Brand’s Actions
Brand was sentenced at Southwark Crown Court on November 9 to 10 years and six months in prison. He was convicted of one count of rape and three further offenses involving four women, committed between 2004 and 2009. He denied the charges and was acquitted of three others.
He is held at HMP Wandsworth, and Page Six reported that six more women accused him of misconduct on Thursday.
Perry, 42, has said nothing publicly about the sentence. According to a source who spoke to The Blast, some people close to her are asking how much she saw during the marriage. The same source was clear on one point. “Nobody is suggesting Katy was responsible for his behavior,” they said.
Perry hinted at more in 2013. She told Vogue she felt responsible for the split until she found out the real truth, which she said she kept locked away for a rainy day.
Martin’s Account and Perry’s Old Interviews Describe the Same Pattern
Martin’s account and Perry’s old interviews describe the same trap from opposite ends. Brand wanted proximity to fame, then resented the woman who had it.
Control rarely announces itself. It shows up as a comment about a swimsuit, or discomfort with a partner running her own tour. Katy Perry’s marriage to Russell Brand ended after he texted her about filing for divorce.
Silence afterward is not the same as not knowing. Perry has already said what she was willing to say, in 2013, and called the rest private.
Jordan Martin has now said her part on camera. Perry has not added to hers, and there is no sign she plans to.
Sources: Us Weekly, The Blast, Page Six
