Russell Brand on politics, addiction and promiscuity - BBC Newsnight

Russell Brand has admitted to a series of addictions - chocolate biscuits, heroin, sex and self-harm. Now a father, and happily married, he says he has discovered a way through and away from addiction. And he wants to help others find the same thing in his new book, Recovery. Emily Maitlis went to meet him.
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