Brutally Honest: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Brutally Honest: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Brutally Honest: The Sunday Times Bestseller

Brutally Honest: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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Overview

'Utterly absorbing and deeply affecting' – The Guardian

As a Spice Girl, TV talent show judge and Broadway star, Mel B a.k.a Scary Spice, has been a global icon since her twenties. But behind the glittering façade of fame, the struggles and pain of this working-class, mixed-race girl from Leeds are laid bare in her critically acclaimed best-selling memoir, Brutally Honest.

With deep personal insight, remarkable frankness and trademark Yorkshire humour, the book tells how she went from Girl Power to girl powerless during her ten-year emotionally abusive marriage. Tracing a path through the key moments in her life, she reflects on her childhood, rise to fame and her chilling downward spiral before she finally broke free.

In this expanded edition, written with Louise Gannon, Mel brings her story up to date. With her trademark honesty, she tells the unfiltered story of piecing herself back together, dealing with trauma and new heartbreak whilst becoming a champion for survivors of abuse, performing once more with the Spice Girls and receiving her MBE from Prince William.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781787133532
Publisher: Quadrille
Publication date: 11/27/2018
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 296
Sales rank: 73,480
File size: 5 MB

About the Author

Melanie Brown’s career began with the pop phenomenon, Spice Girls. They became the biggest girl band in music history, selling more than 85 million records worldwide and becoming cultural icons around the globe. Their tours grossed $800 million dollars and their recent Spice World reunion was the fastest selling tour of 2019.

Since 2000, Melanie has become one of the most recognised faces on television, fronting shows from Lip Sync UK, The X Factor in Britain and Australia, Dancing with the Stars in Australia and America’s Got Talent. She has also starred in a string of movies most recently Idris Elba’s A New Diva Christmas Carol. She has appeared on Broadway in Rent and as Roxie Hart in Chicago. A judge on Australia’s Masked Singer, she remains one of the most popular stars in Britain and America and since the release of Brutally Honest in 2018 has been Patron of Woman’s Aid, speaking at Westminster, 10 Downing Street and at party conferences on behalf of survivors. In Queen Elizabeth's final honours in 2022, she was awarded an MBE for services to vulnerable women. She lives with her family in Leeds.

Louise Gannon is one of the most respected and prolific celebrity interviewers in Britain. Most A-listers – from Mick Jagger to Jack Nicholson and Madonna – have sat down with her. She frequently appears on television to share her unique insight into the celebrity world. During her 25-year career, the award-winning journalist has written for every British newspaper and contributed to magazines including Elle and GraziaYou and The Sunday Times Magazine, as well as US publications such as Vanity Fair.
 
 


Melanie Brown’s career began with the pop phenomenon, Spice Girls. They became the biggest girl band in music history, selling more than 85 million records worldwide and becoming cultural icons around the globe. Their tours grossed $800 million dollars and their recent Spice World reunion was the fastest selling tour of 2019. Since 2000, Melanie has become one of the most recognised faces on television, fronting shows from Lip Sync UK, The X Factor in Britain and Australia, Dancing with the Stars in Australia and America’s Got Talent. She has also starred in a string of movies most recently Idris Elba’s A New Diva Christmas Carol. She has appeared on Broadway in Rent and as Roxie Hart in Chicago. A judge on Australia’s Masked Singer, she remains one of the most popular stars in Britain and America and since the release of Brutally Honest in 2018 has been Patron of Woman’s Aid, speaking at Westminster, 10 Downing Street and at party conferences on behalf of survivors. In Queen Elizabeth's final honours in 2022, she was awarded an MBE for services to vulnerable women. She lives with her family in Leeds.

Louise Gannon is one of the most respected and prolific celebrity interviewers in Britain. Most A-listers - from Mick Jagger to Jack Nicholson and Madonna - have sat down with her. She frequently appears on television to share her unique insight into the celebrity world.

During her 25-year career, the award-winning journalist has written for every British newspaper and contributed to magazines including Elle and Grazia, and You and The Sunday Times Magazine, as well as US publications such as Vanity Fair.

Table of Contents

Melanie's Message ix

1 Girl Powerless 1

2 Numb 8

3 Crazy 18

4 Sorry 32

5 Wonder Woman 39

6 Frog 48

7 Guns 55

8 Mortification 64

9 Dad 71

10 Nevis 74

11 The Rebels 82

12 The Coin 93

13 Dancing Queen 98

14 Eddie 115

15 Love 129

16 The Break 139

17 Dumped 145

18 Stephen 153

19 I Do 160

20 Honeymoons Over 167

21 Smash 175

22 Spice Revisited 190

23 Wall 200

24 Insta-Sham 211

25 Boomerang from Hell 222

26 Back to Black 229

27 Phoenix Chi Gulzar Brown 237

28 Death and Life 242

29 Goodbye. I Love You 251

30 Freedom 258

Epilogue 267

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