Mel B’s ‘Worst Spice Girls Moment’ Is Too Relatable
‘90s kids know this one.
Growing up in the ’90s, one of the most devastating moments in pop culture was when Geri Halliwell announced she was leaving the Spice Girls. And apparently Mel B felt exactly the same way.
In a new interview with The Telegraph, the singer formerly known as Scary Spice reflected on a number of the best and worst moments in her life. Her official “worst Spice Girls moment,” she says, was finding out Halliwell was splitting off from the rest of the group.
“It was on my birthday,” she recalled. “We’ve all talked about it since, and I understand why, but at the time it was devastating because I just didn’t know why.”
Halliwell abruptly announced her departure from the Spice Girls in the middle of the 1998 Spiceworld Tour. At the time, she merely stated that it was “because of differences between us,” while rumors put the blame on Mel B herself “tormenting” Halliwell.
“One thing that was clear at the time I decided to leave was that inside Ginger Spice, underneath the make-up, the big hair, the giant platforms and the headline-grabbing dresses, there was a real girl and she was being suffocated,” Halliwell later wrote in her memoir, Just for the Record.
Reasons aside, the split came less than two years after their first single dropped, making it a big surprise to fans—and seemingly to the other members of the group as well.
It’s understandable why Mel B would cite the beginning of the end as her personal worst moment in Spice Girls history. But the devolution of that relationship takes on a deeper meaning in context of her previous claim that she and Halliwell hooked up once during their Spice Girls days.
“We were best friends,” she told Piers Morgan in 2019. “It just happened.”
The official word from Halliwell’s camp was that the claim was “simply not true,” calling it “very hurtful to her family.”
We may never know exactly what happened between the two of them, but every Spice Girls fan remembers the horror of hearing Halliwell was leaving the group; it was our worst Spice Girls moment, too.
