Mel C says sexual assault the night before the first live Spice Girls performance left her feeling ‘violated’ and ‘embarrassed’

The Spice Girls's Melanie Chisholm (better known as Mel C or Sporty Spice) has penned a new memoir, The Sporty One: My Life as a Spice Girl, in which she writes about having been sexually assaulted by a massage therapist in Istanbul, Turkey, on the night before the group's first live performance in the ’90s.

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