Melanie “Mel B.” Brown is opening up a few second the place she nearly took her personal life after getting back from dinner within the U.Okay. with then-husband Stephen Belafonte.
“So I used to be within the U.Okay. and my, I assume publicity was proper up there,” Brown, 48, recalled in a preview clip from the Thursday, March 28, episode of The Drew Barrymore Present. “So the extra press and the extra consideration I bought, the more serious the abuse bought as a result of he felt like he was dropping management over me, and I simply didn’t wish to be there in any respect, and I took the tablets.”
The America’s Obtained Expertise: Fantasy League decide famous that the moment she swallowed the tablets she regretted it, however Belafonte, now 49, didn’t care to assist her.
“I noticed what I did, and I’m like, ‘You already know what? No, I wish to reside,” she recalled. “’So I instructed him, ‘Look, I’ve achieved one thing actually foolish’ and he mentioned, ‘So?’
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This isn’t the primary time the Spice Lady has spoken in regards to the harrowing incident. Brown shed extra mild on her psychological well being in her 2018 memoir, Brutally Trustworthy, admitting she “took practically 200 aspirin tablets” in an try to flee her marriage to Belafonte.
“I’ll be carrying a good looking gown, my hair and make-up shall be excellent. However if you’d like absolutely the fact, I don’t care about any of it. My life is a large number and I need out,” she wrote. “Behind the glitter of fame, I felt emotionally battered, estranged from my household. I felt ugly and detested by the very man who as soon as promised to like and defend me, my husband and supervisor Stephen.”
The singer additionally claimed that after 10 years of marriage, Belafonte was threatening to destroy her profession and household with a library of intercourse tapes.
Whereas on the “All Rise” podcast in December 2018, Belafonte addressed the claims, saying, “Did my spouse and I ever have intercourse and have a cellphone … We don’t have huge cameras and lighting and modifying. Have we ever taken an intimate second and filmed it with a digicam? Sure.”
He added, “There’s been so many media studies, so many tales, so many bizarre allegations. I needed to type of simply take all people from a to z a to type of get a, a clearer understanding of what actually occurred beside all of the, you recognize, the lies that my ex has been telling to each individual that may hear and claiming to be this, this sufferer. I don’t love Mel. I want her the perfect, however I positively don’t love Mel. What she did. How she tore this household aside and the way she went and put out these horrific allegations simply to fold, to fold.”
Brown filed for divorce from Belafonte in March 2017. The pair share 12-year-old daughter Madison.
After years of unhappiness, Brown has now discovered her fortunately ever after. She bought engaged to hairstylist Rory McPhee in October 2022 after courting him for 3 years.
“I didn’t imagine in love and belief as a result of I’d had 10 years of such unhealthy abuse that once I got here out of that, I used to be like, I don’t need a relationship,” Brown completely instructed Us Weekly in January 2024. “I used to be so damaged down in my shallowness, my confidence [and] I actually needed to construct myself up.”
She continued, “To think about sharing myself once more with anyone else was too scary for me, however Rory is a household good friend, so I have already got that belief and that basis laid.”
The mother of three — who additionally shares daughter Phoenix, 24, with ex-husband Jimmy Gulzar, and daughter Angel, 16, with Eddie Murphy — famous that issues with McPhee really feel completely different than her earlier relationships.
“It simply felt secure, proper and actual, despite the fact that many occasions I went, ‘No, I don’t need a relationship,” she mentioned, “I can’t deal with it.’”
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Tune in to CBS at 9:00 a.m/ ET on Wednesday, March 28, to see Brown’s full interview on The Drew Barrymore Present.