Mel B reveals suicide bid and drug use

Spice Girl Mel B has admitted taking cocaine during her stint as a judge on The X Factor.

Extracts of her autobiography published in The Sun on Sunday also reveal that she tried to take her own life in December 2014.

The 43-year-old speaks can- didly in her book, entitled Brutally Honest, about some of the darkest times in her life, and admits she used cocaine as a “quick fix” to help her cope with work and her turbulent marriage to second husband Stephen Belafonte.

The singer, who insists she never took the drug during X Factor shows, tells how she prayed to God and told herself he would forgive her.

She claims she would snort the drug as soon as she left the building after filming the TV show as it helped her “numb the pain”.