Mel B rowed with her mother over her 'lack of sympathy' when she left her marriage to Stephen Belafonte: 'I lashed out!'
Mel B has revealed she argued with her mother a lot when she returned home following the breakdown of her marriage.
The Spice Girls singer, 48, split from Stephen Belafonte in 2017 after a decade of what she has alleged was an abusive relationship - although he has always denied the claims - and has now opened up on how it affected her relationship with her mum Andrea.
Mel explained that she felt a 'horrible' anger towards her mother and even found herself 'lashing' out at her when she felt had displayed little sympathy.
She told The Sunday Mirror: 'When you're in that place you do want to lash out, because it's too much to think that you've done this. But you haven't – your abuser has done this to you and your whole circle.
'Now that I'm more in tune with my body and how I feel, I know that part of my rage towards my mum is because she wasn't as sympathetic as I wanted.
![Mel B has revealed she argued with her mother Andrea (pictured) a lot when she returned home following the breakdown of her marriage](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/10/00/7249754-13178449-_Freak_accident_Mel_s_mother_said_the_Spice_Girls_star_was_invol-a-57_1710031739952.jpg)
Mel B has revealed she argued with her mother Andrea (pictured) a lot when she returned home following the breakdown of her marriage
![The Spice Girls singer, 48, split from Stephen Belafonte in 2017 after a decade of what she has alleged was an abusive relationship - although he has always denied the claims](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/10/01/82266089-13178449-image-a-65_1710035976558.jpg)
The Spice Girls singer, 48, split from Stephen Belafonte in 2017 after a decade of what she has alleged was an abusive relationship - although he has always denied the claims
'She didn't give me a hug and tell me everything was going to be OK, but that was because she didn't know if things were going to be OK for me.'
The Want U Back hitmaker has Phoenix, 25, with Jimmy Gulzar as well as Angel, 16, with Eddie Murphy and Madison, 12, with Stephen and admitted that her mother had no idea what was going on throughout her relationship.
But Mel was saddened to hear that Andrea was in fact just waiting for the phone to ring with bad news.
The singer also wondered why there are no support groups that victims of domestic abuse can go to with their families,
Mel was made an MBE in 2022 for services to charitable causes and vulnerable women and is patron for Women's Aid.
She recalled meeting a fellow survivor who had had the same fraught relationship with her own mum, and had to remind the woman that she had 'no idea' what her abuser may have said or done to make the situation that way.
Mel recently revealed how she had left her marriage with 'nothing' and eventually found herself selling out stadiums with the Spice Girls only to return to her mother's spare room.
Speaking on the 'How to Fail' podcast, she told host Elizabeth Day: '[I left] with nothing. No house, no property, no cars, no furniture, no credit card, no nothing.
![Mel said: 'She didn't give me a hug and tell me everything was going to be OK, but that was because she didn't know if things were going to be OK for me'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/10/02/82266093-13178449-Mel_said_She_didn_t_give_me_a_hug_and_tell_me_everything_was_goi-m-67_1710036025773.jpg)
Mel said: 'She didn't give me a hug and tell me everything was going to be OK, but that was because she didn't know if things were going to be OK for me'
![Mel B (right) was known as Scary Spice in the 1990s girl group (pictured alongside L - R Melanie C, Geri Halliwell, Victoria Beckham and Emma Bunton in 1997)](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/10/00/82265583-13178449-image-a-59_1710032187337.jpg)
Mel B (right) was known as Scary Spice in the 1990s girl group (pictured alongside L - R Melanie C, Geri Halliwell, Victoria Beckham and Emma Bunton in 1997)
![The American's Got Talent judge embarked on a massive stadium tour with her bandmates in 2019 but was till living with her mum at the time](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2024/03/10/00/21478370-13178449-Icons_The_girl_group_delighted_fans_when_they_reformed_over_the_-a-60_1710032253577.jpg)
The American's Got Talent judge embarked on a massive stadium tour with her bandmates in 2019 but was till living with her mum at the time
'I had to move back into my mum's house. She's got a little bungalow in Leeds so I was doing Wembley Stadium with the Spice Girls in 2019.
'Performing in front of thousands of people, in my element back with my girls and then going home to Leeds in my mum's spare bedroom with my kids.
'I was going "This is my life and I love it now because I know what I'm coming home to.'