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Mel B Checking Into Rehab After Admitting To Sex And Alcohol Addictions Due To Divorce PTSD

Scary Spice is checking into rehab.

Singe, Mel B formerly known as “Scary Spice” in the girl group the “Spice Girls" is reportedly checking herself into rehab for sex and alcohol addiction next month.

According to a statement from the British tabloid The Sun, Melanie says that she has experienced PTSD after her messy divorce from her husband, Stephen Belafonte.

ICYMI: The couple was married for 10 years before the former Spice Girl filed for a divorce from Belafonte in March 2017, accusing him of verbal and physical abuse— listing that as one of the primary reasons for their divorce. 

Mel B granted a restraining order in April, after Belafonte reportedly threatened to “ruin her life in every possible way,” their divorce was finalized in December 2017.

"The past six months have been incredibly difficult for me," Brown's statement read. "I've been working with a writer on my book, Brutally Honest, and it has been unbelievably traumatic reliving an emotionally abusive relationship and confronting so many massive issues in my life."

 (Photo: Trae Patton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

Photo: Trae Patton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images

(Photo: Trae Patton/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

The America's Got Talent judge admitted that she coped with her "massive issues" through sex and alcohol.

"I am being very honest about drinking to numb my pain but that is just a way a lot of people mask what is really going on," she continued. "Sometimes it is too hard to cope with all the emotions I feel. But the problem has never been about sex or alcohol — it is underneath all that. I am fully aware I have been at a crisis point. No one knows myself better than I do — but I am dealing with it."

She concluded her letter by letting her fans know that she'll be checking herself into a "proper therapy programme" next month in her homeland of the U.K.

We wish “Scary Spice” much luck on her journey to sobriety. 

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