Back in May, Katy Perry jokingly (?) compared her relationship with Russell Brand to Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. While I would personally enjoy having another tabloid-friendly couple around to write about and analyze endlessly, I don’t think Brand and Perry are it. But they’re trying! According to the NYDN, Perry and Brand’s relationship has all kinds of drama – self-perpetuating, of course.
For a couple reportedly set to marry this fall, Katy Perry and Russell Brand spend an awful lot of time bickering like a husband and wife on the verge of divorce. The Betty Page-style pop diva and the arse-waggling “Arthur” star sure look good in photos, but friends of Perry say the celebrity couple tangle more easily than Brand’s disheveled hair.
“They fight and make-up constantly,” says a friend of Perry, who observes that the couple have behaved this way since the beginning of their relationship.
Last September, when the press first got wind that the celebs were dating, Perry brought Brand as her date to the wedding of her friend, model Janelle Fishman in Brooklyn. And that’s where, another insider says, friends of the singer first began to suspect that Brand and Perry would “not work out.”
At the reception, Brand, a former sex and heroin addict as well as a recovering alcoholic who’s been sober for seven years, frowned upon Perry’s hard-partying ways. “[Russell] got angry with Katy because he thought she had drank too much” that night, says the insider. Perry “ended up staying with a friend who has a place in N.Y.C.” Brand “went back to the couple’s hotel room alone.”
Meanwhile, Perry has issues with Brand as well, particularly when it comes to her beau’s rep as a comic Casanova. (The British tabloid The Sun awarded Brand its “Shagger of the Year Award” for so many consecutive years — 2006 through 2008 — that it eventually retitled the honor in his name.)
“There have always been fights about other women − despite Russell talking about how much he loves Katy all the time,” says the insider.
One of those quarrels took place shortly before last month’s 2010 MTV Movie Awards, where Perry performed and Brand was a presenter.
“Katy suspected [Russell] of cheating and it wasn’t the first time,” says the insider, who adds that, because of the tiff, Perry and Brand arrived at the event separately and sat separately — Brand, next to his “Get Him To The Greek” co-star Jonah Hill. But shortly after the show, Brand and Perry were hand-in-hand at the awards-show after-party at L.A.’s Las Palmas nightclub.
“It’s a cycle,” Katy’s friend says of the “Hot and Cold” couple.
Representatives for Brand and Perry did not respond to requests for comment.
[From The New York Daily News]
Two weekends ago, CB and I went to see Get Him To The Greek (which was a lot better than I was expecting). There was one line in particular that I thought was probably very close to who Russell is in real life. His character was sober and off drugs for several years, and in that time he had a seemingly stable relationship with his girlfriend (played by Rose Byrne, in a scene-stealing performance) and he did yoga every day for five hours. Byrne’s character tells him – after they’re broken up and she’s yelling at him – that he “could turn anything into heroin”. Meaning that once he got off drugs, he turned being sober, and yoga, and their relationship into his addiction. Now I’m wondering – what is Brand – a former drug addict – addicted to now? It used to be girls – just shagging everyone with a pulse. Is it Katy now? Or is it the drama that this relationship brings? Is Russell capable of stability?
Brand & Perry on March 7, June 6, 2010 and May 25, 2010. Credit: WENN.
Hope they sort out their differences. There is no perfect relationship.
I don’t think so. He’s still very young, he’ll get bored with her and probably won’t settle just yet. But who knows.
I don’t necessarily think it would be Russell bringing the drama. My guess would be on Katy.
But there are just some couples who groove like this. Hot and cold. Back and forth. They either end up breaking up for good or begin to mellow as time goes on and stay together.
I LOVE Russell. Can’t say why exactly, but I think it’s that he is so funny and so willing to admit to all his shortcomings. I always smile when I see a pic of him or read a quote about him.
Katy though, in my opinion, is very immature. She may grow up and become a lovely woman. We’ll see.
I have known so many couples like this, though…….and myself have been a part of a hot/cold couple. It’s exhilerating for a while, and then exhausting and uncomfortable.
Well, I hope they figure it out. I love them together. I cant really picture either of them with anybody else!
I watched Penelope this weekend, and totally forgot he was in it!!
I just hope that neither one gets their heart broken should things not work out. Too sad!! I like them both and wish them long-term peace, joy, and fullfillment (whether together or apart).
They are so breaking up. It’s a matter of when..
@gracie, I agree. Hopefully they can sort out their differences. Katy seems pretty immature, but they both seem to have alot of issues, like most hollywood couples. Hopefully they can work their sh-t out, having a hot/cold relationship while not married is repairable but walking into a marriage while in that stage of a relationship is doomed for failure.
They seem like one of the only celeb couples I can actually imagine banging all the time.
These two are doomed.
I totally think you’re right about addictions being re-focused. I have a cousin who was an alcoholic. She then turned her addiction to tanning and cigarettes, and it’s taken her 3 years to get clean from both the tanning and drinking. I’m not going to harp on her about the cigarettes, I figure that considering all she’s given up already, she can keep the cigs.
Also had a roommate with a gambling addiction who has turned it into an exercise addiction. As in, at least 3 hours of hard-core exercise a day.
Addiction is hard to get rid of, because addicts struggle with finding balance in their lives rather than excess even after their “drug of choice” is being dealt with. Switching to a comparatively healthier obsession is still not ideal.
Has Katy Perry been surgically enhanced? In the photo where she is is wearing a blue wig…her boobies look so big now! And she is so thin!
I feel offended that they call Katy Perry “the Betty Page style diva”. Maybe if they had said “the budget clearance rack Betty Page wannabe style diva”.
Blah. She has no talent, Russell Brand marginally so. They’re just going the famewhore route now.
I think she can do a lot better. He isn’t attractive, kind of creepy in fact. They seem a totally mis-matched pair. She should walk away now to avoid having to divorce him later.
I am not surprised to hear this. I don’t see them making it. I DO think Russell Brand at least THINKS he’s in love with Katy Perry, but she seems like she’s just with him for the notoriety, and that she is the more hard-partying one. She seems to need lots of attention with all of her get-ups and that latest “California Gurls” video. I mean, she can totally pull it all off (the get-ups), but still…she doesn’t seem like she’s ready to settle down by a long shot! I feel for Russell!
Well, I like Russell Brand, and hope they make it (don’t like her too much). However, and this will sound horrible, I personally would advise anyone against getting involved with former heroin (or other hard drug) addicts. I have bitter personal experience with this, and he relapsed and also had a tendency to redirect his addiction into other annoying outlets. It’s grueling. Especially if the person has a criminal record, which even if in the distant past has a tendency to rear its head in different ways, such as difficulty finding a job. And frankly, SOME addicts tend to minimize their past problems or not mention side effects. Like they’ll tell how they spent all this money, but “forget” to mention that they stole from their grandmother or other ugliness. Or how they didn’t bother to pay off bills and thus have a crap credit rating.
Bracing for the hate mail now.
She looks like an extra in a cheap disco movie.
She also seems pretty dull, I think he might like someone more interesting.
i find everything about this chick SO annoying
Another battling couple were Elizabeth and Richard. It did get to be too much but apparently the love never died.
People always assume that couples who have disagreements and fight don’t have longevity in their relationship, this is really anything but the truth.
I read this study about how couples who do fight actually end up having better relationships and longer relationships, because issues are addressed. You grow as a couple when you communicate, and by doing that, you’re not always going to agree. Problems cannot be resolved until they are TALKED about, and couples who don’t communicate, don’t last long term.
Russel being an addict is clearly an issue to Katy and why wouldn’t it be? My fiancée is also a recovering alcoholic and I can’t tell you the amount of hours we have spent talking about his recovery and alcoholism. He admits to his addiction and copes with it, and that is all you can ask from an addict. Denial is the worse thing to deal with.
It’s true about addicts though, they have addictive personalities to begin with, so they replace one addiction with another. I hope Russel and Katy can work through this, it takes dedication.
@jc126 – I totally agree with you. Have had the same experiences and in my opinion they just aren’t the type of people you want to become seriously invovled with. I know everyone deserves a second chance but those kinds of issues are usually so deep seeded that, like you said, they will come up eventually in some way, shape or form.
i was in a “hot and cold” relationship-but after awhile became much more mellow and now rarely fight or disagree-we got it all out of our systems.
is that a fifth of alcohol in his hand in the pic with her in the blue wig?
This is funny, cuz I was just thinking about them (God help me) and about how I thought they’d break up eventually, though I felt they might be together for a good long while. I feel she’ll want him to grow up and maybe like…quit saying shit about Jesus, then he’ll feel too suffocated and phony…it will just implode.
I saw it too, but assumed NyQuil. I don’t know, what do I know? Everyone wants to be Bettie Page, but they can’t even spell her name. I don’t even remember where I came across it, but I read a short biography of her and…whoa.
Proof Tiny Tim does those crazy eyes on purpose.
It’s a bottle of water in his hand.
I love Russell Brand and I like Katy Perry, but yeah, I’ve heard them speak about each other and they definitely sound like a “hot and cold” (nice use of one of her song titles!) couple.
I saw Brand in concert, or whatever you call a stand-up show, in Seattle, and he did the old jokes about turning up the lights so he could pick out which audience chicks he was going to have sent to his room after the show, but you could tell it wasn’t genuine… but one thing he talked about that very much WAS genuine was how he did NOT like it that Perry was more famous than him! He was very forthcoming in how much it bothers him when they’re together and people want HER picture or HER autograph, not his. He hates it, and openly admits it. He certainly has replaced some old addiction with addiction to attention!
Earlier in the day, on the local radio morning show, he had “jokingly” said Perry was a “pain in the ass”, adding after, “she IS a woman”… it was a joke, but you could hear sincerity in it, too!
On the same radio morning show a couple months later, Perry was on the phone with the hosts and said pretty much the same thing about Brand, that he was a pain in the ass. But she also told the story about how the night a couple months before that he had his show in Seattle, even though she had big show business-y things going on the night before and the night after, she had flown into Seattle for that one night to surprise him and that she had been backstage at the show. (We thought we saw her rush into the SUV waiting to rush Russell Brand away from the small crowd of fans… was kinda disappointed he didn’t take time for the MAYBE 70 people who were waiting at the back entrance, but I digress).
ANYWAY… they say passive aggressive “pretend” rude things about each other, they argue, and they make lovely gestures for each other… to me, that sounds pretty normal, and I think it gives them a much better chance of making it than any couple who never do any of those things, or who always do some of those things.
IMHO they are just coming out of their ‘in love bubble’ and seeing each other for who they really are. You know, when you first meet someone they are perfect and you laugh at all their idiosyncrasies but after a while those little things become ‘pain in the arse’ things. Sometimes that period of a relationship is hard.
i love katy perry i was in l.a. once then i was changeing and she came in my room on misstake and i was naked and she kept stairing she tryed to kiss me!!!….