Mel B revealed that she got a tattoo of her ex-husband's name surgically removed — and she still has the skin stored.
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A lot of my surgery was to do with getting out of my abusive relationship," she said, according to Metro UK. "It was almost like a cleanse. I just wanted to feel fresh and new again and untouched by that person."
Mel B added: "It's like if you're a rape victim the first thing you want to do is get in a bath and wash everything off you. I didn't want to have any remnants of him on me."
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Mel B has spoken out against Belafonte in several interviews and in her latest book, "Brutally Honest."
In 2017, they had a public divorce, in which Mel B accused her ex of showing her three daughters (Phoenix, from her relationship with Jimmy Gulzar; Angel, who was born when she dated Eddie Murphy; and Madison, who she welcomed with Belafonte) graphic videos of people being beheaded.
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"I kept silent for a decade in order to protect myself and my three beautiful girls," she writes in her memoir. "I had to declare, in front of an American judge, reasons why I needed legal safeguarding from the man I was married to for 10 years. And even though I continued to smile for the cameras on stage, on screen and on social media, I was lost behind a wall that kept out my family, my friends, and my soul."
Watch Mel B's interview with "Loose Women" below.
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