Spice Girls' Mel C Reveals She Was Sexually Assaulted the Night Before Their First Concert

Mel C aka Sporty Spice revealed she was sexually assaulted the night before the very first Spice Girls performance.

The 48-year-old singer shared the story on the How to Fail podcast while promoting the release of her memoir “The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl.”

“It happened to me on the night before the first ever Spice Girls live performance,” Mel C revealed.

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“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,” she shared.

“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,” Mel C said. “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.”

“I suppose in a version of sexual assault it’s a mild version but I felt violated,” Mel C later explained. “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.”

Last year, Mel C performed on Dancing with the Stars to the Spice Girls song “Wannabe.”