Spice Girl Mel B goals to assist abuse survivors in expanded memoir

Spice Girl Mel B is releasing an expanded model of her 2018 memoir, sharing extra particulars about her private life which she hopes will assist survivors of home abuse.

The British singer and tv character, born Melanie Brown, has added three new chapters to Brutally Honest, which regarded again on her childhood, meteoric rise to fame and marriage to her ex Stephen Belafonte, who she mentioned had been abusive in the direction of her. He denied the claims.

“It’s now 2024 and so much has occurred since (the e book’s launch) … I bought my MBE for campaigning and spreading consciousness about home abuse. I’m engaged. I purchased my first home and I’ve achieved plenty of therapeutic with my relationships,” Brown advised Reuters.

“I wanted to give survivors that hope and that honesty that ‘you know what, I’m going through it too still, just like you are. So don’t give up’.”

Brown, a patron of the charity Women’s Aid, turned a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2022 for companies to charitable causes and weak girls.

“It’s given me extra of a objective. It’s like an extension of woman energy as a result of I’ve been screaming woman energy since I used to be 19, after which for 10 years I used to be very woman powerless and now I’m talking my reality,” she mentioned of her campaigning in opposition to home abuse.

“I’ve got … survivors behind me cheering me on, saying ‘yes be our voice’ because my story is their story.”

Brown, 48, mentioned she initially launched her memoir after encouragement from each her daughter and her buddy, Louise Gannon, who wrote the e book along with her.

“I have the platform … I’m reaching out to people that don’t have a voice, that don’t have a safe place where they can get help or talk about it,” Brown mentioned.

Earlier this month, the Spice Girls – consisting of Brown (Scary Spice), Victoria Beckham (Posh Spice), Melanie Chisholm (Sporty Spice), Emma Bunton (Baby Spice) and Geri Horner, previously Geri Halliwell (Ginger Spice) – shared a video marking 30 years since their first auditions.

The group, which fashioned in 1994, stormed charts all over the world with hits together with Wannabe and Say You’ll Be There earlier than going their separate methods. Four of them reunited for a 2019 tour.

Asked about beforehand hinting at one thing new involving all 5 Spice Girls, Brown mentioned: “I am unable to say precisely …, however us 5 have been speaking … for a protracted, very long time now, many, many months.

“So, we’re going to announce something soon… and I know the fans are not going to be disappointed. It’s going to be very exciting.”