Mel B reveals she thought Geri Horner had been kidnapped when she left the Spice Girls

The group have left fans anticipating a reunion 
Safeeyah Kazi25 September 2018
The Weekender

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Mel B has admitted that she was left feeling panicked after former bandmate Geri Horner left the Spice Girls unannounced.

Former Scary Spice Melanie Brown told how she was initially “angry and then really sad” when Horner left the group in 1998.

Speaking to the Loose Women panel, she explained: “We searched for her in the hotel and we couldn’t find her. She’d got herself on the flight and headed back to England.

"She was in the crisis of a horrendous eating disorder and she just felt no way out apart from to remove herself.

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“Even that in itself made me feel so… of course I was a little bit angry because we had to re-do the whole show. She was nowhere to be found. [I thought she’d been] kidnapped or something.

“We were all kind of a bit frantic. Then we found out she’d got on a flight and was heading back to England. Then we went into overdrive mode to re-do the show. I was trying to call her the entire time.”

Brown added that she was left feeling heartbroken that Horner was unable to speak to her about what she was going through.

The 43-year-old said: “It was my birthday and I thought of all days she’s leaving on my birthday.

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"What bothered me, not the fact that she left, of course that bothered, the fact she didn’t come to me.

“I consider her as my best friend. Well, all of them, we’ve got really solid friendships.

“That bothered me more than anything, she didn’t feel like she could talk to me and just tell me what’s going on. She was just gone.”

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