'Russell Brand made millions from our fling - I was a young woman dazzled by celebrity'

The woman at the centre of the Sachsgate scandal says Russell Brand went on to make "millions of pounds" from their fling when she was just a "young girl completely dazzled by celebrity".

Georgina Baillie - the granddaughter of Fawlty Towers' star Andrew Sachs - had a relationship with Brand when she was 20 years old and he was 30. It went on the spark Sachsgate - in a series of prank calls broadcast on BBC radio in 2008, the comic and his co-host Jonathan Ross went on to leave vulgar messages on Andrew’s answerphone, bragging that Brand had slept with Georgina.

Georgina, 38, maintains that her relationship with Brand - who has been accused of rape and sexual assaults at the height of his fame - was consensual and that she was not attacked by the comic, but has told The Mirror: "I was a young girl completely dazzled by celebrity and I would do anything - and I did."

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She added: "I thought I was just a 20-year-old girl at a party but looking back on it years later I was already in the throes of addiction myself. I was really lost back then. After Sachsgate, Russell made millions of pounds doing a stand-up routine about it and that was very hard and painful for me - I was the butt of the joke, I was young and didn't know how to process it and I turned to drink and drugs.

"I hope these alleged survivors get the help that they need. For about ten years after Sachsgate it was very hard because I didn't know whether I was in the wrong, so when he apologised it was a huge weight lifted off me."

Brand, who denies the allegations revealed in a joint investigation by the