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Mel C was sexually assaulted before the first Spice Girls concert
Melanie “Mel C” Chisholm – also known as Sporty Spice – has revealed that she was sexually assaulted the night before her first Spice Girls concert.
The singer claims in her new autobiography: “Who I am: my story”That the assault took place at a hotel in Istanbul, Turkey in 1997, when she was 23 years old.
“It happened to me the night before the Spice Girls first performed live,” Chisholm, now 48, writes in his diary: on the Daily Mail.
“We were in Istanbul, played two shows there, and had never played a full-length concert before, so of course we did rehearsals for a couple of weeks, try on costumes, make-up here,” she continues.
“Everything led to the top of everything I ever wanted and ever wanted to be.”
Chisholm says the incident happened after she decided to treat herself to a massage at the hotel on the eve of their first performance.
“I was in an environment where you take your clothes off with this professional person,” he writes. “It influenced me.”
The singer “Wannabe” then remembers getting up and leaving the massage, trying to block out what had just happened.
Chrisholm claims that she has not talked about it for years, and has instead “buried” the memory of what allegedly happened.
“What happened to me I buried immediately, because there were other things I could focus on. I didn’t want to make a fuss, but I didn’t have time to deal with it either, “she recalls in her memoirs.
“Since I wasn’t doing it then, I realize I let it be buried for years, years, and years.”
However, the traumatic event came back to her in her sleep, she says as she began writing her book.
“I woke up and it was on my mind and I thought,” Oh my God, I didn’t even think about having this in a book. ” Then of course I had to think, “Do I want to expose it?” – explain. “I just thought,” I think it’s really important for me to say it and finally deal with it and process it – and for other people. “
She continues: “I suppose the sexual assault version is the mild version, but I felt hurt. I felt very sensitive. I felt ashamed and then insecure. “Am I right what is happening?”
Previously, Chisholm had spoken loudly to fans about her struggle with depression at the height of her career.
She admitted that the “cruel and soulless” nature of the music industry made her “desperately unhappy” at times.
“The holes of being famous were devastatingly difficult. I was defenseless and the tabloids cruel and heartless. It made me sick, ”she confessed in an essay from 2020 for the British “The Guardian”.
“Who I Am: My Story” will hit the shelves on Thursday.