There was a moment in 2019 when Melanie Brown – Mel B – felt truly, completely free. It happened in Bristol; she was standing on stage wearing a pair of handmade leopard-print platform boots, in front of a crowd of 34,000 adoring Spice Girls fans, alongside her fellow band members Geri Halliwell, Melanie Chisholm (Mel C) and Emma Bunton. It was raining heavily, and the stage was slippery. Brown saw the opportunity and ran with it, quite literally. She raced across the drenched stage, throwing her hands in the air and splashing through puddles in her handmade boots. “I feel like I’m flying, completely free,” she said, describing the liberating moment.
It had been a long time in the making. For the Spice Girls, their 2019 shows came more than a decade after their last tour in 2008. For Mel B personally, the band reunion came after the end of an abusive marriage, a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) diagnosis and the release of her powerful memoir, . Her dramatic run across the water-logged stage wasn’t just a moment of
