Mel B to enter rehab for addictions

Singer Melanie Brown, also known as Mel B, will enter a UK-based therapy centre next month to battle alcohol and sex addictions after “incredibly difficult six months”.

A source said the former Spice Girl is “sex-crazed”, and slept with up to three men in one day in the wake of her bitter divorce from producer Stephen Belafonte.

“The past six months have been incredibly difficult for me. 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,” Mel told thesun.co.uk.

“I’m 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. 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.”

She went on to add, “I have made the decision to go into a proper therapy programme in the next few weeks, but it has to be in the UK because I am very, very British and I know that will work best for me.”

She is still struggling, but said: “If I can shine a light on the issue of pain, posttraumatic stress disorder and the things men and women do to mask it, I will do. I am speaking about this because this is a huge issue for so many people.” She said she has been “financially battered” following her split from Belafonte, and is determined to get well for the sake of her children — Phoenix, 19, Angel, 11, and Madison, six.

Last year, Mel said in divorce court documents that Belafonte was physically and emotionally abusive. He denied being abusive and the pair finally divorced in December.