Mel C Reveals She Was Sexually Assaulted Before 1st Spice Girls Concert: ‘I Didn’t Have Time to Deal With it’

Mel C aka Sporty Spice shared her thoughts about if and when the Spice Girls would be performing again, perhaps as a reunion tour.

The Spice Girls going back on tour?! Sign us up. ET’s Nischelle Turner spoke to Mel C, whose full name is Melanie Chisholm, about new music, and the possibility of reuniting with the iconic girl group for hid the road once more!

Spice Girls going back on tour?! Sign us up. ET's Nischelle Turner spoke to Mel C, whose full name is Melanie Chisholm, about new music, and the possibility of reuniting with the iconic girl group for hid the road once more!«We are celebrating 25 years, if you could believe it,» Chisholm shared.

Sporty Spice was almost kicked out of the Spice Girls! Mel C, whose full name is Melanie Chisholm, is opening up about her years in the hit girl group in her new tell-all memoir, The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl.

Spice Girls! Mel C, whose full name is Melanie Chisholm, is opening up about her years in the hit girl group in her new tell-all memoir, . The 48-year-old singer spoke with ET's Rachel Smith at Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum in New York City about a situation early on in the group's iconic late '90s run. «Something happened quite early on in the Spice Girls' journey, and I have a little bit of fall out with Victoria [Beckham] at the Brits (Brit Awards) in '96 — not the Union Jack dress [year], but year before. So [we were] unreleased but a few people knew us.

Slam it to the left! Melanie Chisholm spilled all about her ups and downs as Sporty Spice in her memoir.

90s legends the Spice Girls have sent their fans into a frenzy once again after leaving a mysterious message online, which has been widely interpreted as hinting at an upcoming reunion event.Taking to Twitter yesterday, the official Twitter account of the widely-adored girl band - made up of Geri Halliwell, Melanie Brown, Emma Bunton, Victoria Beckham and Melanie Chisholm - posted just three emojis in their teaser message. A ladder emoji, a peace sign (holding up two fingers) and a girl with her hand raised were tweeted, leaving excited fans lingering with anticipation and speculating what the mystery message could mean. Several admirers of the girl band - who called it quits in 2000 before reuniting to tour in 2019 without 'Posh Spice' Victoria - believe that the teaser may be hinting at another reunion in the weeks to come.

READ: Spice Girls fans go wild as former members Geri Horner and Mel C mark very special milestoneSo it was only natural that when Melanie Chisholm – aka Melanie C – came to putting her life story into words, she would want the approval of her fellow Spice Girls."The girls have been so supportive. I breathed a huge sigh of relief when everyone had read it and came back with positive comments," Melanie exclusively tells HELLO! of her bandmates, Melanie "Mel B" Brown, Victoria Beckham, Geri Horner (née Halliwell) and Emma Bunton.

Mel C has given her view on comments made by her bandmate Geri Halliwell in 1996 in which she dubbed Margaret Thatcher “the first Spice Girl”.Halliwell told the Spectator 26 years ago: “We Spice Girls are true Thatcherites. Thatcher was the first Spice Girl, the pioneer of our ideology – Girl Power.”However, Mel C has now denied that the whole band felt the same way as Halliwell about the divisive figure. “Abbbbbsolutely not!” Sporty Spice told the Independent.

Sporty Spice is opening up about her experience with body image issues.

Victoria Beckham— were free to have boyfriends. "Looking back what struck me was it was one rule for one and another for the others, right?" she said. "I think when you are vulnerable as well, people go, I don't think it's good for you."The rule for the other women, she said, was "she is fine, she can have a boyfriend, she can cope with having a boyfriend, she is strong enough but you are not."Mel C, also known as Sporty Spice in the '90s, added, "It makes you question yourself when you are already vulnerable."As Mel got older, she began dating, and even had a tryst with Robbie Williams in 1997.

Melanie Chisholm, also known as Spice Girls' Mel C, is opening up about a night from her Spice Girls days when she alleges she was sexually assaulted. In an interview on Elizabeth Day’s podcast, Chisholm claimed that she was sexually assaulted by a massage therapist at a spa in an Istanbul, Turkey hotel in 1997 ahead of her first-ever live performance as a Spice Girl. The singer was staying in the hotel the night before the group was set to hit the stage for the first time.«We were in Istanbul.

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Melanie C has said she was sexually assaulted in a hotel the night before her first live show with the Spice Girls back in 1997.The 48 year old, whose full name is Melanie Jayne Chisholm, shared how the ordeal impacted her to such a degree that she tried to bury the memory and it re-emerged years later in the form of a dream. Speaking to host Elizabeth Day on the How To Fail podcast to promote her new memoir Who I Am: My story, Melanie explained that she didn't tell anyone about the incident as she didn't want to "make a fuss".