Mel C was almost kicked out of Spice Girls after Victoria Beckham row
Mel C feared she was going to "lose everything" after a row with fellow Spice Girls star Victoria Beckham led her coming close to being kicked out of the girl group.
Mel C was almost kicked out of the Spice Girls following a row with Victoria Beckham.
The 52-year-old singer - real name Melanie Chisholm - has recalled a pivotal moment back in 1996 when she became embroiled in a bust-up with Victoria at the BRIT Awards and she confessed she thought she was going to "lose everything" as the group's manager Simon Fuller threatened to have her removed from the girl group.
During an appearance on The Louis Theroux Podcast, Mel explained: "I went into terror because I thought I was going to lose everything. You know, those dreams as a child, which now were a possibility, I might have f***** it all up.
"And I thought it was very trivial as well because, to put some more meat on the bones of that evening, it was the BRIT Awards in 1996, which fall around February time. So, we hadn't released anything. Nobody in the public knew us.
"But in the industry, people had started talking, and we were there, signed to Virgin Records, and we were sitting on a table with Lenny Kravitz, obviously, we were these young girls so this was an amazing night for us. We had a great night.
"We had a few Champagnes ... We were going to find our car and whatever the, the situation was where I just turned around and said to Victoria: 'Oh, f*** off'."
Mel went on to reveal she didn't think she had done anything wrong but she found herself in deep trouble the following morning.
She said: "Unbeknownst to me, go home, go to bed, wake up the next morning, and I was in a lot of trouble. I was living with Mel B at the time.
"We were living in Watford, and Geri [Horner] also lived in Watford, and they were both there when I got up. And yeah, they were just disgusted with my behaviour.
"You know when you've had a night out, and you wake up in the morning, and you've got beer fear, right?. You think: 'Oh, f***, I know what I did last night'.
"I didn't even have that. I just woke up going: 'Oh, last, last night was fun', where I had completely brushed off that situation.
"But obviously, it had really affected people in a way I hadn't realised. So I was in trouble."
Mel explained she then got called in for a meeting with Fuller, who warned her she would lose her place in the band if she every acted out like that again.
She said: "Simon wanted to speak to me, and I was told in no uncertain terms if anything ever happened like that again, I would be gone.
"So that completely freaked me out, one, because I didn't realise I'd done anything that terribly bad, and two, because my actions may have led to me losing everything I'd ever wanted, you know?"
During the podcast, Mel also spoke about the possibility of another Spice Girls reunion and insisted she's still keen to get all five members of the group back onstage again.
She said: "That would be an amazing thing for us to do, for that legacy to be able to live on, but personally, I want to see us on stage together.
"I think we need to do some more live stuff, while we still can. There's so many opportunities, we could do Glastonbury, we could go to [Las Vegas venue] the Sphere, there's lots of things I'd like to do and I'm working on them."
