Why feminist crusader Justin Trudeau is keeping tight-lipped on Russell Brand… and his fears for girlfriend Katy Perry amid 'tell-all' plan

'Sometimes supportive boyfriend duties call,' Justin Trudeau shrugged after swapping Canada's World Cup opener for a Katy Perry performance, but even he couldn't have seen this call coming.

On Monday, Perry's ex-husband Russell Brand was jailed for ten-and-a-half years for one count of rape and three of sexual assault, allegations he has denied, and the Firework singer has kept her lips firmly sealed.

But not for much longer, it seems. 

For the Daily Mail revealed last weekend that Perry, 42, is in 'active discussions' about a tell-all book and docuseries on her 'dark marriage' to Brand, with a source warning: 'She has a lot to say.'

And it's a saga the former Canadian prime minister, 54, can hardly sit out, since Brand, 51, has spent the past year deriding him as a 'globalist stooge' and publicly criticizing Perry for falling for him.

Worse still for Perry, footage, said to show the moment Brand brutally dumped her via text, has resurfaced. 

So where does Trudeau stand as his girlfriend prepares to lift the lid on her marriage to a man who after their divorce would be a convicted rapist?

Firmly on the sidelines, it seems, until she needs him, with an insider telling the Daily Mail: 'Justin has generally stayed away from any talk on Russell, but if she brings it up, he is very supportive.'

Far from talking her out of a tell-all, the seasoned politician is more than happy to let Perry call the shots.

'With his political past, he knows how to deal with storms, and if Katy wants to do a book and a doc, he is going to let her fly and have her do anything she wants to do,' the source said.

'If she asks for help or if it looks like she needs help navigating through it all, he has no problem being there for her.'

And, they added, the timing could not be more significant.

'It will come as she enters what she feels is the happiest and most fulfilling chapter of her life,' our insider said. 'She's a mom, she's found a relationship with Justin that she describes as nothing short of magic, and, perhaps for the first time in a long time, she feels incredibly comfortable with who she is.

'That's really what she wants to capture.'

Magic is one word for it. Perry and Trudeau first set tongues wagging in July 2025, when they were photographed having dinner at Montreal restaurant Le Violon, just weeks after she confirmed her split from Orlando Bloom.

Days later, the former PM was spotted in the crowd at her Montreal concert, belting out her hit singles Firework and Teenage Dream.

By October, they had been caught kissing on her yacht off the coast of Santa Barbara, and later that month they were filmed leaving the Crazy Horse cabaret in Paris hand in hand after celebrating her 41st birthday.

She has barely stopped gushing since. At the Tribeca Festival premiere of her concert film in June, she called Trudeau 'the love of my life.'

Now, Perry wants to dig deeper than ever before.

'She's done a documentary before, but this time she'd like to go much deeper, allowing people to see the woman behind the noise and for fans to really understand the experiences, heartbreaks, decisions and personal triumphs that have shaped her,' our source said.

That earlier film, 2012's Katy Perry: Part of Me, was shot as her marriage to Brand was falling apart, and it is the source of that resurfaced clip, which shows the singer sobbing backstage before pulling herself together to perform. 

It was a whirlwind from the start. Perry first met Brand in June 2009, when she filmed a cameo for his comedy Get Him to the Greek. They reconnected at that year's MTV Video Music Awards, where she reportedly caught his attention by throwing a bottle at his head.

In October 2010, they married in a lavish Hindu ceremony near a tiger sanctuary in Rajasthan, complete with elephants and camels.

Fourteen months later, it was over. Brand filed for divorce in December 2011, citing irreconcilable differences, and Perry later said he told her he wanted out by text message on New Year's Eve, moments before she was due on stage. The divorce was finalized the following year. They reportedly had no prenuptial agreement, but Brand did not seek any money from the pop star.

In a 2013 interview with Vogue, Perry said the marriage had been 'very controlling' and claimed Brand 'didn't like the atmosphere of me being the boss on tour.'

She added cryptically that she had since discovered 'the real truth, which I can't necessarily disclose because I keep it locked in my safe for a rainy day.'

Thirteen years on, that rainy day may finally have arrived, though our source insists Brand won't be the main event.

'Katy has long since moved on from the chapter of her life that included being married to Russell, and the woman she is today is a very different person from the one who was married to him back then,' they said.

'Of course, he will be part of the story. She's not looking to erase it or pretend it didn't happen. But it wouldn't be the centerpiece, either.'

Brand, meanwhile, has begun his sentence at HMP Wandsworth in southwest London.

Last Thursday, a jury of eight men and four women at Southwark Crown Court found him guilty of raping a 21-year-old woman he met at one of his shows in 2009. They also convicted him of sexually assaulting three other women between 2004 and 2009: at a London bar, at a radio station and while working on a Channel 4 project.

He was cleared of two further counts of rape and one of attempted indecent assault.

Brand, who moved to Florida with his wife Laura Gallacher and their three children in 2024, had denied all the charges and insisted the encounters were consensual.

Brand will be on the sex offenders' register for life.

Perry was not called to give evidence, and references to the marriage were removed from the prosecution's opening after objections from Brand's legal team.

The disgraced comedian isn't the only ex in the frame, however. Perry was with Bloom on and off for nearly a decade. He proposed on Valentine's Day 2019, and their daughter, Daisy Dove, now six, arrived the following year.

The couple confirmed their split in July 2025, and Perry has since admitted: 'It was probably the hardest time.'

Tellingly, it is Bloom, not Brand, who would have given Trudeau pause if the crimes had involved him instead, according to our insider. 

'If this was happening with Orlando, it would be more of a thing, because he knows Orlando and respects Orlando as the father of her child,' the source said.

For now, Perry is said to be focused on reclaiming her story and getting back to what she does best.

'A book and documentary would give her the opportunity to tell that story on her own terms,' our insider said. 'And then also give her a chance to do more music.'

The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for Perry and Trudeau for comment.