Mel C is sharing something horrifying that happened to her at the beginning of her career.
The 48-year-old singer and member of the Spice Girls has revealed that she was sexually assaulted the night before the iconic group’s first ever concert.
While promoting her memoir, “The Sporty One: My Life As A Spice Girl,” on the How to Fail podcast, Mel C spoke about her upsetting experience. She said:
“It happened to me on the night before the first ever Spice Girls live performance.
We were in Istanbul, we did two shows over there, and we’d never done a full-length concert before, so obviously we’d rehearsed for weeks ahead, costume fittings, make-up here, everything was leading towards the pinnacle of everything I’d ever wanted to do and ever wanted to be.”
Mel C vulnerably went on to recount:
“What drives me is being on stage, being a performer, so here we were the eve of the first ever Spice Girls show, so I treat myself to a massage in the hotel. And what happened to me I kind of buried immediately because there was other things to focus on. I didn’t want to make a fuss, but also I didn’t have time to deal with it. Because I didn’t deal with it at the time, I realize that I allowed that to be buried for years and years and years.”
And she heartbreakingly said:
“I suppose in a version of sexual assault it’s a mild version but I felt violated. I felt very vulnerable. I felt embarrassed, and then I felt unsure ‘have I got this right, what’s going on?’ I was in an environment where you take your clothes off with this professional person.
It has affected me. But I buried it. Lots of people do.”
