Mel B Claims She Wrote Her Tell-All Book Because Of Her Daughters

She's discussed her abusive ten-year relationship with ex husband Stephen Belafonte in her new book, Brutally Honest.

And Mel B, 43, told her fellow Spice Girl Emma Bunton she did it because she doesn't want her three daughters to end up in similar situations to her.

Appearing on 42-year-old Emma's Heart FM radio show on Tuesday, Mel said: 'There’s quite a bit that I left out. My main point to get across was that being in an abusive relationship is not OK.'

Mel is mother to Phoenix, 19, from her marriage to dancer Jimmy Gulzar, Angel, 11, from her romance with Eddie Murphy.


And Madison, six, is from her marriage to Belafonte.

Emma said: 'It’s amazing. I cried through the whole thing by the way. And then Mummy Bunton read a bit yesterday and cried, I was like “Oh my goodness” – it’s just heart breaking.'

She added: 'If you are in a relationship where you are being humiliated or made to feel less than you are, it is a crime.

'I became really good at lying and saying my marriage was amazing when it's wasn't.'

She told Emma that since 2016, 'coercion' has been deemed a crime with a maximum five year prison sentence.

It's when a victim experiences the type of behaviour that stops short of serious physical violence, but amounts to extreme psychological and emotional abuse at the hands of a partner.

Host Jamie Theakston said: 'In the book you said “in the past 20 years of my life I have made £80m. Now I was thinking hang on, Is that what the Spice Girls make because it’s my birthday coming up and I might ask Emma for something different?"'

Mel laughed: 'I was married for 10 years and most of my work is in America and Australia so you know aside from my lovely Spice Girls, I am quite an independent money earner and I love earning money.

'And that’s also a form of control, also for your partner because they put you out to work so you can’t think straight.

'But luckily I love what I do and I love my work and that’s why I’m so happy – you know people like Simon Cowell – even though the girls didn’t quite realise it also – they were very much my rock in the midst of all of this. But they didn’t know the truth truth because I was embarrassed.' 

Former Zamfara SUBEB chairman jailed for 41 years

The Zamfara State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB chairman, Murtala Jengebe, has been sentenced to 41 years in jail by a five-man panel of the court of appeal sitting in Sokoto and presided over by Justice Hannatu Sankey, The Cable reports.

Jengebe was convicted by the court after the appellate court found him guilty on the seven out of the 10 counts of which he was earlier acquitted at the federal high court, Gusau, Zamfara.

In the lead judgment read by Habeeb Abiru, a judge, the earlier acquittal was set aside.

The appellate court held that the prosecution had proved beyond reasonable doubt seven out of the 10 counts of the money laundering charge brought against him by the EFCC.

He was consequently sentenced to five years imprisonment on each of four of the counts and seven years each on three other counts respectively

However, the court ordered that the sentences shall run concurrently.

On May 12, 2017, the federal high court sitting in Gusau discharged and acquitted the convict on the 10 counts charge of money laundering but convicted him for engaging in private business while he was still in public service.

An offence he was never charged for by the commission.

Dissatisfied with the judgement of the lower court, the prosecution approached the court of appeal seeking it to set aside the judgement of the lower court.

Ex-Eagles Player, Etuhu To Stand Trial Today At A Swedish Court For Match-Fixing

Former Premier League player Dickson Etuhu goes on trial in a Swedish court on Thursday to face a charge of match-fixing, which he denies.

Etuhu played at the 2010 World Cup for Nigeria and had a lengthy career in England for Manchester City, Preston North End, Norwich, Sunderland, Fulham and Blackburn Rovers before moving to play in Sweden.

He is charged with trying to bribe a goalkeeper to fix the result of a league match between his former side, Stockholm's AIK, and IFK Gothenburg.

The game was due to be played on May 18, 2017 but was postponed after goalkeeper Kenny Stamatopoulos told AIK he had been approached by Etuhu and another man with a view to fixing the game, according to the 473-page pre-trial protocol seen by Reuters.


Etuhu has said his former team-mate must have misunderstood the conversation.

'I respect everyone's opinion, but the facts remain the same — it never happened... It's unbelievable that an ordinary conversation with a friend can lead to something like this,' Etuhu told Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter.

The offence of gross bribery carries a maximum sentence of six years in prison.

Etuhu, 36, and his lawyer Johan Akermark both declined to speak with reporters head of the trial, being held at the Stockholm District Court