Mel C Says ‘Fall Out’ With Victoria Beckham Nearly Bought Her Kicked Out Of Spice Ladies

Sporty Spice was nearly kicked out of the Spice Ladies! Mel C, whose full title is Melanie Chisholm, is opening up about her years within the hit lady group in her new tell-all memoir, The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Lady.

The 48-year-old singer spoke with ET’s Rachel Smith at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in New York Metropolis a few scenario early on within the group’s iconic late ’90s run.

“One thing occurred fairly early on within the Spice Ladies’ journey, and I’ve somewhat little bit of fall out with Victoria [Beckham] on the Brits (Brit Awards) in ’96 – not the Union Jack costume [year], however yr earlier than. So [we were] unreleased however just a few folks knew us. And there was somewhat fall out, and I used to be threatened to get kicked out the band,” Mel C shares. “And from that second on I noticed – as a result of I didn’t assume it was a giant deal, I didn’t assume I’d finished something notably dangerous – and it freaked me out. I used to be like, I’ve to regulate myself. I’ve to regulate what I do.”

Management turned a troublesome theme all through the musician’s life within the highlight. She developed an consuming dysfunction due, partly, to her persona as Sporty Spice.

“At this level I used to be controlling what I ate. I used to be controlling how a lot train I used to be doing,” she acknowledges. “I imply, I feel as a result of in a scenario like that a lot is out of your management, the issues you’ll be able to management I turned very obsessive about.”

She says she was supplied assist for her consuming dysfunction, however on the time she “wasn’t prepared to simply accept it.”

“That is the factor with these points, you understand, you’ll be able to’t actually assist any person till they’re keen,” she says.

As for the place she stands with the opposite Spice Ladies as we speak, Mel says her relationships with the band are “higher than they’ve ever been.”

“We love one another and it’s like a sisterhood, you understand?” she explains of her bandmates. “We began collectively as children. We got here from nothing. We achieved all of these items. We love one another’s kids. We all know one another’s households, they’re siblings. It’s an enormous, big household and that’s by no means going to alter.”

As for a Spice Ladies on stage reunion with all 5 members, Mel says “we might love that.”

“In the meanwhile we’re speaking 4 for the time being,” she says. “Victoria, the supply is at all times there, she’s at all times invited and at all times actually concerned, really. We’re nonetheless very a lot a 5 piece, like behind the scenes.”