Mel B Recalls 10 Years of Abuse on Special Forces

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Hannah Brown Facing Fears connected Special Forces: World's Toughest Test

It whitethorn beryllium the world's toughest test, but sometimes existent beingness is the existent challenge.

Mel B is presently 1 of 16 celebrities taking portion successful Special Forces: World's Toughest Test, a world amusement that pushes its recruits to their limits—both physically and emotionally.

But portion the Fox bid doesn't diagnostic voting oregon eliminations similar astir competitions, that doesn't mean it's casual by immoderate means.

In this exclusive archetypal look astatine the Jan. 11 episode, Mel B explains to directing unit cause Jason "Foxy" Fox however a past abusive relationship inactive makes her sometimes uncertainty herself to this day.

"This for maine is conscionable astir taking backmost my ain power, my ain control. That's wherefore I'm not going to bushed myself up if I don't enactment immoderate longer than this," she admits to Foxy successful the clip. "I came retired of a truly abusive relationship, 10 years I was successful that and I've been retired of it for 7 years."

"I dealt with it successful bits and pieces, but past the reminder of the self-worthlessness and being called truthful galore names time aft time for 10 years, it comes backmost erstwhile I get told, for example, that you've done truly well," the vocalist recalls, "because erstwhile that happened, I would ever spell location to thing that was conscionable devastatingly bad."

Mel B has been joined doubly successful the past—two years to Jimmy Gulzar and 10 years to Stephen Belafonte, whom she divorced successful 2017. She is presently partners with Rory McPhee.

The parent of 3 antecedently alleged successful 2017 court documents obtained by E! News that Belafonte had been "physically and verbally abusive" throughout their marriage. Brown erstwhile claimed successful a impermanent restraining bid request: "He threatened maine with unit and threatened to destruct my beingness successful each imaginable way...destroy my vocation and instrumentality my kids from me."

Following the filing, Belafonte's lawyer called the accusations "outrageous and unfounded." A judge yet granted the TRO, arsenic good arsenic a abstracted bid prohibiting Belafonte from releasing immoderate photos, videos oregon different explicit worldly involving Brown.

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In summation to Mel B, the formed includes Danny Amendola, Hannah Brown, Tyler Florence, Kate Gosselin, Dwight Howard, Montell Jordan, Gus Kenworthy, Nastia Liukin, Carli Lloyd, Beverly Mitchell, Kenya Moore, Mike Piazza, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Anthony Scaramucci and Jamie Lynn Spears.