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Spice Girls’ Mel C reveals to Australian fans why she was threatened with expulsion from pop girl group Spice Girls after incident with Posh Spice Victoria Beckham
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Melanie ‘Mel C’ Chisholm lost almost her entire musical career to one drunken mistake.
The Sporty Spice, 48, shared details of that fateful night in her autobiography, Who I Am, which will be released across Australia on Tuesday.
During a drunken night at the 1996 Brit Awards, before the Spice Girls released their debut single Wannabe, she told Posh Spice Victoria Beckham to ‘f**k off’.
Melanie ‘Mel C’ Chisholm, 48, (pictured) almost lost her entire music career to one drunken mistake
Despite no music being released, the pop group had already become a big name in the industry after major London record labels battled over who would sign Melanie, Geri Halliwell, Victoria, Melanie ‘Mel B’ Brown and Emma Bunton.
The pressure was on for the group to become a huge global success, and Melanie’s antics, amid her depression and poor self-esteem, wouldn’t cut it.
After berating her group mate, Geri and Mel B promptly told her before their new manager Simon Fuller threatened to kick her out of the group.
The Sporty Spice shared details of that fateful night in her autobiography Who I Am, which will be released across Australia on Tuesday.
In an excerpt from the memoirs obtained by the Daily TelegramMelanie wrote that she was terrified of losing her lifelong dream.
From then on, she changed her behavior and delved deep into a harmful mindset to please those around her.
She stopped standing up for herself, put her head down and just did as she was told, as they quietly sunk deeper into depression and a serious eating disorder.
“From the moment I got the flyer (in 1994) for the audition, being in the band was everything I ever dreamed of,” she said in her memoir.
On a boozy night at the 1996 Brit Awards, before the Spice Girls released their debut single Wannabe, she told Posh Spice’s Victoria Beckham (pictured in 1997) to “f**k off”
She continued: ‘So any criticism, or like with the BR96 when I had that little argument with Victoria, anything that suggested an element of doubt that I could do this had more impact than anyone else would realize.’
Melanie also revealed that she had been sexually assaulted in a hotel the night before the Spice Girls’ first concert.
The pop star shared how the ordeal touched her so much, even though she tried to bury the memory, but it returned in a dream while she was writing her new autobiography.
Despite no music being released, the pop group had already become a big name in the industry after major London record labels battled over who would sign Melanie, Geri Halliwell, Victoria, Melanie ‘Mel B’ Brown and Emma Bunton. (All pictured here)
Melanie, who also revealed she still suffers from depression, said she ignored the incident because of her fear of upsetting people — a trait that also later kept her from seeking the help she needed when she wanted. that her life would end.
The singer said that at the time of the assault, when she was 23, she was afraid to make a fuss and had too much on her plate with the Spice Girls performance in front of a crowd of 8,000 people in Istanbul in 1997.
But she says she couldn’t handle it, so it got stuck in her head so much that it came out of nowhere in a dream as she started writing for her new life story.
After berating her group mate, Geri and Mel B promptly told her before their new manager Simon Fuller threatened to kick her out of the group.