Pointing to Brand's diminishing TV work in the UK after 2019, Kumar said:"That's simply because increasingly people were just not willing to work with him. Everyone was afraid to talk about it because of the threat of lawsuits, you know?
"And so, the only power people had was to withdraw participation from shows involving Russell Brand."He said as a comedian working in the industry, he too felt a sense of"guilt" and"complicity". Kumar said:"Watching it as a cisgendered, heterosexual male comedian, you feel a certain sense of guilt and a certain sense of complicity because you've been working with production companies and producers who are providing an infrastructure that allows predators to thrive."
He said the"indulgence" of top talent was"an issue that cuts across all of the industries," and which needed to be addressed. Kumar concluded:"The only people to come out of this with anything approaching any credibility are the victims who have been brave enough to step forward and the journalists who have worked extremely hard to produce rigorous pieces of journalism so that they could get around the threats of a very powerful man's lawyers."