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This past Spring Melanie Brown, better known as Mel B., shocked a couple of people when she revealed that she and former bandmate Geri Halliwell now Horner  (Ginger) had sex. The revelation was salacious but not entirely surprising if you know about Mel B.’s dating history. But apparently, Horner didn’t take to kindly to the admission. In fact days later, she came out denying the claim altogether. Given that 4 out of the 5 Spice Girls were on the cusp of a reunion tour, the overshare couldn’t have come at a worse time.

In an interview with The Mail On Sunday’s Event magazine, Brown said, “Things got really pumped up in the press and on social media, and yes, it was difficult between Geri and myself for a while. I texted her on the night I did the Piers Morgan show and explained what he’d said and how I’d answered and she was fine with it. The problem was it then got hyped up into a much bigger story, and it didn’t help that we were just about to begin rehearsals. It was awkward. We hadn’t been back in the situation of being together every single day, being on stage, rehearsing, getting ourselves back into Spice Girls mode, and then all the headlines about our relationship were thrown into the mix, which was pretty bad timing.

“We have all grown up. Geri and I were always the loud, bossy ones, Mel C and Emma were much quieter, but we’ve all changed…Geri is different. She’s married, she’s got kids, she’s not the same outrageous Ginger she used to be. That took a bit of getting used to for me. I’ve changed. I’ve been through 10 years of a deeply abusive marriage. I’ve lived a lie for a decade and I’ve come out of it wanting to be so honest and so up front about everything.”

But in the months since Brown’s admission, things have simmered between the two, partially because Horner addressed a long held, deep wound among her groupmates.

“Geri and I are in a good place now. On the last night at Wembley, Geri did something which, I think, meant more to me than any of the other girls. She said sorry for leaving the group back in 1998. We had been so close and then she just left and never really said why and never really said sorry until a few weeks ago. She gave me a massive hug after she said it and both of us had tears in our eyes because we knew, deep down, it had needed to be said for a long time, something that had rankled between us.”

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