Melanie Brown (Mel B) has revealed the Spice Girls reached out to Geri Halliwell to “protect” her after Christian Horner’s alleged messages have been leaked.
Red Bull Formula One crew principal Horner was cleared of misconduct in direction of a feminine worker final week following an inner probe. But the 50-year-old, who’s married to pop star Halliwell, discovered himself embroiled in controversy simply 24 hours later after alleged texts between him and the complainant have been leaked.
It emerged this week the girl in query was suspended whereas Horner counseled his spouse’s “phenomenal support”. Now Geri’s fellow Spice Girl Melanie, 48, has opened up about how “horrible” it has been to see her good friend of three a long time endure a nightmare situation.
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She make clear how the Spice Girls have been sending her messages continuous because the textual content scandal broke, telling The Mirror: “Oh God, we are all so supportive of each other, we would literally take a bullet for each other. Between the four of us we’ve all been messaging her, I sent a message to her earlier. I just feel for her, and… oh my God. I just feel sad. But she knows she has us four that are with her.
“Because I do not actually know the ins and outs, all I see is: ‘That’s my good friend and I do know what she’s going by is absolutely robust.’ All you are able to do is be there, identical to the ladies have been there for me, all I can do is be there for Geri. But it’s horrible to see your good friend going by one thing – one thing that you do not fairly know what it’s – however that is your good friend and also you wish to shield her, it doesn’t matter what.”
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She went on to say: “What us five have been through in the 30 years we’ve known each other, that’s a solid bond. I remember when I was getting my first divorce, and my then-husband wouldn’t move out of my house. I called the girls first. I think it was Mel who said to me: ‘Get your baby and come stay with me,’ and Emma had the house opposite, and I was just protected by my girls. That was it. That is our friendship.”
Melanie’s unimaginable bond with the opposite Spice Girls – Geri, Victoria Beckham, Emma Bunton and Melanie Chisholm – made it all of the extra devastating once they realized she had been hiding her 10 yr abusive marriage to ex Stephen Belafonte from them.
Now a patron for home abuse charity Women’s Aid, Mel, who left Belafonte in 2017, lastly revealed the extent of her torment a yr later in autobiography Brutally Honest. The abuse had turn out to be so extreme that she took an overdose after years dwelling in a “violent, twisted hell.”
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And Mel shared how the opposite Spice Girls have been “riddled with guilt” about what occurred to her. She mentioned: “Victoria’s mum told me she was beside herself when she read the book, Emma was in tears too. They were all riddled with guilt. I had to rebuild so many relationships after I left my marriage, but with them not so much.
“If something I needed to take that guilt away from them and reassure them that it doesn’t matter what that they had mentioned, I would not have listened, I’d have in all probability lied. Even if that they had come to me – and I keep in mind Geri did attempt to speak to me, on the penultimate date of our tour in Toronto in 2008. She discovered me on the ground of the bathe, crumpled up within the foetal place, crying.
“But even if they had tried at other times, I would have still lied. I would have said: ‘No, everything’s fine.’ That’s what I did on America’s Got Talent for seven years. That’s why going back last year I felt like I no longer had to hide a dirty secret. I didn’t have to hang around late, dreading going home, because now I know what I’m going home to.”
Melanie’s ex-husband, Stephen Belafonte denies all allegations made by the singer and tv persona.