Russell Brand's deportation from Japan on Sunday stemmed from his many arrests in the UK. Press reports count 11 total, but except for his dust-up with a paparazzo last year, little is known about the actor's rap sheet - which includes several pot busts - until now.

Brand began flaunting the law at a young age. While he attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theater Arts in London, Brand earned his first arrest for cultivating marijuana. "I had about 30 dismal plants," he says in My Booky Wook: A Memoir of Sex, Drugs and Stand-up. "I grew the plants to save money. I'd have got a better buzz from bludgeoning myself over the head with the pots they grew in." He was convicted of possession, but the cultivation charged was dismissed.

Just a week later, while awaiting an audition, he was caught smoking a spliff on Carnaby St., cuffed and taken to jail, but the charge was dismissed. "These comic arrests became more and more frequent as I became more and more drugged and less interested in observing laws that seemed abstract," he writes.

In the book, his next two arrests are for shoplifting (not long after the pot busts) and indecent exposure in May 2002. "I think there'd been a bit of shoplifting and disorderly as well in the years since that initial Tango ad audition drug fiasco," he says in a vain attempt to recall his many arrests, one of which was for getting naked at an anti-globalization protest in 2001.

Most recently, Brand's encounter with a photog at LAX on Sept. 17, 2010 resulted in a citizen's arrest. And while traveling with his pop-star wife Katy Perry, who was performing in Japan over the weekend, officials banished him from the country.

Sober since 2002, Brand once had a huge appetite for drugs. "Heroin delivered," he explains in the book. "LSD kind of does a bit, especially when all things that are familiar to you peel away and you suddenly realize the fragility of how you normally see the world. Marijuana kind of doesn't really, although it's a laugh for a while (I say that having smoked it constantly for a decade). Alcohol makes you sick and gives you a headache. Crack is like inhaling plastic, but so brief and brittle and flimsy as a high. Normal cocaine just makes you nervous, amphetamines even worse and Ecstasy never really agreed with me. But heroin gets the job done. What it mainly does is take you out of reality and plant you somewhere more manageable..."

This year, Brand has starred in the remake of Arthur and voiced the character E.B. in Hop. In 2010, he had a hit with Get Him to the Greek, which loosely chronicles his former life as an alcoholic, drug-abusing party animal.

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