Melanie C has revealed how a row with fellow Spice Girl Victoria Beckham sparked a long battle with depression.
The singer, 46, believes her struggle with eating disorders and poor mental health stemmed from a dressing down she received after a heated argument with her bandmate at the 1996 BRIT awards.
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Mel explained: “I was so hurt and embarrassed. We’d all had a few bevvies and on the way out there was a little scuffle between myself and Victoria. We can’t say this on air but I asked her to go away.
“I was told if that behaviour ever happened again, then I would be out. To think I could have messed that up and lost it all… I began to be really, really hard on myself.
“I think that is where the start of some of my problems came because I had to be very, very strict with myself. I couldn’t allow myself to relax because if I did I might mess it all up.”
Looking back, the singer and DJ thinks her body then “took over her mind”.
I couldn’t allow myself to relax.
She continued: “I think my body actually took over my mind. I went from being anorexic to having a binge eating disorder. That’s when I went to my GP and I was diagnosed with depression. It was such a weight lifted off my shoulders.
“It was such a relief because I thought, ‘Oh my God, there’s a name for it and I can be helped.'”
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