LOS ANGELES, CA - DECEMBER 03: Singer Katy Perry (L) and actor Russell Brand attend the 3rd Annual “Change Begins Within†Benefit Celebration presented by The David Lynch Foundation held at LACMA on December 3, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)
Photo: Jason Merritt/Getty Images
Though Howard Stern did his best to get the real talk, the usually shameless Brand is still only saying nice things about Katy Perry: “I was really, really in love with her, but it was difficult to see each other … I don’t want to be too glib … She’ll read it and she’ll be sad and I don’t want that.†(He gets a pass on those “ass-ache†comments because they were semi-off-the-record and also, probably, not wrong.)