Britain’s Melanie C said, at the beginning of her career with the Spice Girls, that she was sexually abused by a masseuse on the eve of a concert for the hit band. Melanie Chisholm, better known by her nickname Sporty SpiceShe recalled how the experience had left her “vulnerable” and admitted that she felt “violated”.
At the age of 48, the singer spoke audio notation How to fail to promote the new memoir Who i am (who am I, not yet published in Portuguese), to be released September 27. The incident took place more than two decades ago at the hotel where the girl group was staying in Istanbul, Turkey.
“What happened to me, I immediately buried it, because there are other things to focus on,” he said in a conversation with hostess Elizabeth Day. He remembers that when all this happened, the band was going to have their first big concert, after weeks of preparation and rehearsals, and that’s what they decided to focus on. He admitted, “It all converged on top of everything I’d ever wanted.”
He noted that had he talked about the accident, they would have made a huge “fuss” and “there was no time to deal with it,” he said. Melanie C describes the masseuse’s incident as “nice” in A range of sexual assaults. He noted that at first he was not writing about the episode in the new book, but the repressed memory vowed to come to him through a dream. “I think it’s important for me to say it and eventually deal with it and treat it.”
The fact that the abuse occurred when she was with a “professional,” in an environment where you “take your clothes off,” only contributed to making the episode even more confusing in the singer’s mind. “I felt weak, I felt embarrassedTerrible things happen all the time and it wasn’t as bad as it could have been,” he says.
In recent years, Melanie Chisholm has spoken frankly about the difficulties she faced at the height of her fame. In 2020, in an interview to me WatchmanRecall a past of eating disorders and depression. Last year, he filed a court case against Rupert Murdoch’s media group, the title holder New York Post or Sunday timesclaiming that he was the victim of wiretapping.
Spice Girls, bigger girls squad From the 1990s, they split in 2000, after six years in which album sales had accumulated tens of millions of euros, including hits such as I wanna be And the Says. The band originally had five members: Victoria Beckham (luxury seasoning), Melanie Chisholm (Sporty Spice), Emma Bunton (Children’s seasoning), honey b (Scary Spice(and Jerry Horner, formerly Jerry Halliwell)Ginger Spice). in 2018met again in a private party, but without Beckham.
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