Who is scary spice married to

She is in a white dressing robe, getting made up and giving her team the lowdown on Peter Andre , a former boyfriend. And he was so polite. And she still likes to talk about sex — her voracious appetite, her many lovers, her attraction to men and women.

I ask if she remembers showing me that ring four years ago. It was just lie after lie after lie, and I got used to lying. Can I please stay at work a little bit longer — or is there a park I can go to with my kids?

In , he pleaded no contest to a charge of battery against his former partner, estate agent Nicole Contreras. He also has convictions for theft and vandalism, and admitted to beating a duck to death with a brick. When they met, she says, she was in a vulnerable place, having recently separated from the actor Eddie Murphy.

A DNA test proved that Murphy was the father, and he now sees year-old Angel regularly; but the relationship was over. Brown was distraught she still calls Murphy the love of her life. Soon afterwards, in , she met Belafonte. The devil shows up with everything you want. He was Prince Charming back then.

He was sexy. He was very flattering. For how long was he like this? I need to be more attentive, I need to make him happier. So I stay in it, and it just snowballs. Does she think he loved her? The Spice Girls were an instant phenomenon, still the bestselling female group of all time.

While the swagger and insouciance have always been part of her character, Brown says that in other ways she is an old-fashioned girl who just wants to please.

Her parents might have stood out, as a mixed-race couple in s Leeds her father was from St Kitts and Nevis , her mother is white and Yorkshire-born , but they were conservative. They wanted their daughter to get a decent education, hold down a good job, to marry and stay married. In , she had a third daughter, Madison, with Belafonte. The last thing she wanted, she says, was to embarrass her family by being the single mother of three daughters.

So she hung on. And, of course, there was another factor: she felt terrified. Every detail was fodder for the tabloids. She later withdrew allegations of physical abuse. One of the things that attracted her to Belafonte, she says, was that he had a libido to rival hers. The bride had arrived an hour and a half before the groom, slipping past fans and reporters in a car with dark tinted windows.

Despite the crowds the year-old bride had gone to great lengths to shield her big day from the public eye. A white canvas tunnel had been constructed from a gate in the mansion garden wall to the church door, completely shielding guests from view. Get ahead of the day with the morning headlines at 7.

Has he ever acknowledged that? Brown also reveals that she was the one who walked out, after a row over her independence she wanted them to buy a house together, he wanted to buy it for her. She flew back to Leeds, refusing to answer his calls. Brown insists she had always planned to go back to him. No wonder he assumed it was all over. I was always coming back. That was a given. How much did she have at her peak? Millions and millions and millions. She says it was liberating walking away with so little.

She withdrew the allegations of physical abuse, while he agreed not to show the tapes. Two weeks ago, Brown was awarded joint custody of their seven-year-old daughter, Madison, after passing several weeks of drug and alcohol testing. Is she now Poor Spice? Brown is desperate for a cigarette break.

We go outside, and she sparks up. She says how excited she is about the forthcoming Spice Girls tour. There will only be four of the band, though — Victoria Beckham declined. But if she wants to join us — fingers crossed, at some point she will. She lights up another fag before the other is out.

Which Spice Girl is she closest to? She mentions Geri, and then says they also argue a lot. In the book, she recounts nostalgically the days they used to drive down the motorway flashing their breasts at oncoming cars. There were rumours that you and Geri slept together, I say.

On the way back in, we pass her leopardskin jacket, hooked round a bannister. What is she enjoying most about life now? And I mean that on every level. When she tells me what she has done to her body since leaving Belafonte, I realise how determined she is to obliterate him. When they were together, she got a tattoo down her side. I got it cut out.

I also read that she had vaginal rejuvenation surgery after leaving Belafonte. Did I love myself then? I probably loathed myself. But I can genuinely say now: yes, I do love myself. And I did when I entered into my marriage and that got chipped away. I allowed that to be chipped away. Having come through it all, she says she feels better than she has in decades.

Every day she rejoices in her new freedoms — to play her music full blast, to dive-bomb in her LA pool with the girls, to practise reiki, to keep a pet goat. Ever ever ever. Because I had no confidence for so many years and I had to nurture myself, almost bring myself back to life.

What does she hope people get out of the book? She mentions the final page, headlined Fifteen Signs Of Abuse. However, the couple parted ways in , when their daughter was three years old.

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