Brand: 'Fame hasn't brought happiness'

Russell Brand has admitted that being famous has not brought him the happiness he had hoped for.

In his new documentary directed by Oliver Stone, the comedian and actor claimed that his childhood dreams of fame have not lived up to expectations.

"I'm famous now. I didn't used to be but, when I was younger, I always wanted to be famous. I thought it would make me happy," The Mirror quotes him as saying. "But now I've got fame and some of the things that I thought would make me happy - it ain't worked.

"I don't want to say, 'Lavish sympathy upon me'. I can imagine what people will say, 'Wasn't it as good as you anticipated? Was it when you were single and all the sex and the boozing that was disappointing? Or is it really starting now you are living in a mansion with three cats and Katy Perry? You have suffered'.

He added: "It's just peculiar to me, a lad growing up in Essex, London, that I would attach such importance to becoming famous and things, and it's not all that good."