Spice Girls' Mel B to undergo therapy for PTSD

The 43-year-old former Spice Girl has also admitted that she used alcohol to “numb the pain” of revisiting traumatic stories from her marriage to former husband Stephen Belafonte for her upcoming book.

“The past six months have been incredibly difficult for me,” she told The Sun on Sunday. “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.”

“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.

“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.

“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.”

Brown said her PTSD diagnosis was helping her to address her issues.

She said: “I am still struggling but if I can shine a light on the issue of pain, PTSD 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.

“I’m not perfect, and I have never pretended to be. But I am working on being a better version of myself for my kids – whom I love more than life itself – and for all the people who have supported me.”