Russell Brand admits to sleeping with a 16-year-old when he was 30

Amid his sexual misconduct case in the U.K., Russell Brand is coming clean.

The English comedian, now 50, admitted to sleeping with a 16-year-old when he was 30, explaining on the "Megyn Kelly Show" that it was legal.

"The plain fact of it is, in Europe and in the United Kingdom, where I'm from, the age of consent is 16. And I did sleep with a 16-year-old when I was 30," he told Kelly, in an episode published Wednesday, April 22. "But when I was 30, I was a very different person. I was a lot younger, and I was an immature 30-year-old."

Brand, who in February pleaded not guilty to one charge of sexual assault and one charge of rape in a London court, also acknowledged the "strong power differential" as a "famous man" while having "consensual sex with lots of lots of women."

"I think [it] involves exploitation. It is exploitative," he continued. "I recognize that my sexual conduct in the past was selfish. I did not apply enough consideration, barely any I suppose, really, to how that sex was affecting other people."