Russell Brand may have tried to rip into Kamala Harris but he only opened up the opportunity for fans to do the same to him. The comedian and Katy Perry's ex-husband, 49, took to X, formally Twitter , to scare a withering post that took aim at the Vice President - in which he embarrassingly mistook melatonin for melanin. Who are Kamala Harris's parents? Inside her childhood with mom who had huge life mission Biden says he's done the 'right thing' and reveals next move in unexpected call to party He took to the social media platform in a bid to roast the new Democrat candidate for the US presidential election after President Joe Biden dropped out of the race.
Russell's post began: If Kamala Harris is to be the new pick in the “bait n’ switch”, “find the lady” cup n’ ball trick that we are being offered in lieu of democracy "We already know she’s a socially inept and empty instrument of intransigent, institutional power, solely offering cutaneous and genetic novelty to a famished pack of secularist devotees so bewildered that melatonin and an “X chromosome” could represent to them some kind of pyrrhic victory," it concluded. It seems Russell was trying to suggest that people are celebrating the appointment of Kamala, not because of her politics, but because she is Black. However, the estranged husband of Katy Perry got confused between melanin – a natural substance that produces hair, eye, and skin pigmentation – and melatonin; a hormone used to help with .