The Spice Girls<\/a> member also know as Sporty Spice recently recounted how she was nearly ejected from the quintet after getting into an argument with Posh Spice herself, Victoria Beckham<\/a>. While she didn’t specify the cause of the clash, Chisholm said one thing was for sure: It very nearly cost her a spot in the group.<\/p>\n “I went into terror because I thought I was gonna lose everything,” she said on Monday’s episode of The Louis Theroux podcast<\/a>. “Those dreams as a child which now were a possibility, I might have f\u2011\u2011\u2011ed it all up. And I thought it was very trivial as well.”<\/p>\n Chisholm explained that the conflict occurred during the 1996 BRIT Awards, five months before the girl group released their debut single, “Wannabe.”<\/p>\n Mel C in 2025 “Nobody in the public knew us, but in the industry people had started talking,” she said. “And we were there and we were sitting on a table with Lenny Kravitz, which\u00a0 obviously for these young girls, it was this amazing night.”<\/p>\n Chisholm said that by the end of the night, she and the other Spice Girls \u2014 all in their early 20s at the time \u2014 had sipped some champagne, noting, “It was the BRITs in the ’90s, right? Everyone was having fun.” And that’s when she made her faux pas.<\/p>\n “We were just leaving, we were going to find our car, and whatever the situation was, I just turned around and go, ‘Victoria, f\u2011\u2011\u2011 off,'” she recalled. “I go home, go to bed, I wake up the next morning and I was in a lot of trouble.”<\/p>\n When she woke, bandmates Melanie Brown and Geri Halliwell were present, and it was clear that something was wrong. “They were just disgusted with my behavior,” Chisholm said.<\/p>\n Victoria Beckham and Melanie Chisholm in Miami in 1996 She continued, “You know when you’ve had a night out and you wake up in the morning and you’ve got like, beer fear,’ like, ‘Oh, what did I do last night?’ I didn’t even have that. I just woke up going, ‘Oh last night was fun.’ I completely brushed off that situation, but obviously it had really affected people in a way I didn’t realize.”<\/p>\n Entertainment Weekly has reached out to a representative for Beckham for comment.<\/p>\n Chisholm recounted how in the morning, she immediately got word that the group’s manager wanted to speak to her. “I was told in no uncertain terms that if anything ever happened like that again, I would be gone,” she said. “That completely freaked me out.”<\/p>\n Chisholm pointed out that she was completely caught off guard, having not realized that she’d “done anything that terribly bad,” and was suddenly met with the reality that “my actions may have led to me losing everything I’d ever wanted.”<\/p>\n Needless to say, the incident left a significant impact on her \u2014 especially during the early years of the group’s meteoric rise to fame. Chisholm previously discussed the altercation with PEOPLE<\/a> in 2020, admitting that though it as swiftly resolved, it had a lasting effect on her mental health.<\/p>\n The Spice Girls at the BRIT Awards \u2033A tiny little thing I didn’t think was that bad could have jeopardized my whole dream,\u2033 she said. \u2033So it made me really self-police. That got to the point of me being very controlling in different areas of my life. Losing control freaked me out.”<\/p>\n Get your daily dose of entertainment news, celebrity updates, and what to watch with\u00a0our\u00a0EW Dispatch newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n Chisholm said that to cope with tensions in the band and pressure from being in the public eye, she began to “obsessively\u2033 control her habits around food and exercise.<\/p>\n “I felt like I had to make myself perfect to really deserve all of this wonderful success,” she explained. “We were so ambitious, it was nuts. We put a lot of pressure on ourselves because we knew we had something very special, and we didn’t want to mess it up.”<\/p>\n If you or someone you know needs help with mental health, text \u2033STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741 to be connected to a certified crisis counselor. For support for eating disorders, contact the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) at 1-800-931-2237 or NationalEatingDisorders.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n![\"Mel](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/entertainment_weekly_785\/510f2695499a6afeb8a9b9e31f7265a9.jpeg\"\/)
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