In her BBC Radio 4 podcast, Young Again, journalist and broadcaster Kirsty Young takes her guests back to meet their younger selves and asks the question: if you knew then what you know now, what would you have done differently?
“It's something that we all did believe in and still do to this day. Why would we want to be manufactured and told what to wear and told what to sing when we had so much to give lyrically and musically anyway between all five of us?”“Doing an interview like this one-on-one, I get really nervous,” says Mel about talking to Kirsty. “ put me in Wembley Stadium with the Spice Girls music and I'm just in my element. Nothing can go wrong. Everything's just perfection.
“When somebody is so over the top and so insistent on love bombing you, it's not really meant to happen like that. That should make somebody go, ‘Let me just hold on a second. I don't even know you properly. Let me just go through the paces.’” "They're very good at sensing when you're pulling away - then the flowers would come. Or another engagement or wedding ring would come, or a beautiful dinner would happen by surprise. And your friends and family have been invited. So it's like, ‘Oh, no, he does love me.’”
"Me and my ex were kind of living separately because I was in New York, he was in LA,” says Mel. Having returned to LA she planned to go and see her father but in the meantime her and her children’s passports disappeared.