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Bryony Gordon's Mad World

Mel C

Bryony Gordon's Mad World

The Telegraph

Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

CAUTION ADVISED - STRONG LANGUAGE Spice Girl Mel C speaks to the Telegraph's Bryony Gordon in the tenth episode of her new podcast, Mad World, where she interviews guests about their mental health experiences. Mel looks back on her time in the band, revealing how the pitfalls of fame ultimately led her to battles with eating disorders and depression, and how it took until her forties to be comfortable in her own skin. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

The Telegraph.

0:10.0

Podcasts.

0:09.0

So hello and welcome to Mad World this week I'm quite excited to have in the studio sitting opposite me

0:16.3

someone I basically adored when I was a teenager and I'm just totally going to fan girl you now.

0:23.0

Mel see everyone.

0:25.0

Mel see.

0:26.0

I remember when Wannabe came out and I was 15-16 and it was like a real kind of,

0:32.0

hang on, because before all the big bands have been

0:34.8

boy bands like take that and you can't do the block and to have these women sort of

0:39.1

of empowering.

0:40.1

We're not going to talk about the spice girls we're going to talk about you.

0:42.1

Well we could talk about both we to talk about the Spice Girls, we're going to talk about both.

0:44.0

We can talk about everything.

0:45.0

I'm part of that.

0:46.0

You are a Spice Girl till you die.

0:47.9

Absolutely, 100%.

0:49.7

The first question we ask on this program is, how are? You know we say how are you every day and we go

0:56.5

on fine thanks. I want to know how are you really right now? I've taken my honesty tablets.

1:01.2

We're taking it honesty tablets. Yeah I actually feel a bit, I feel a bit better since I've come in and we've had a

1:07.3

chat and it's all you know it's all nice isn't it excited and we're gonna chat about

1:10.7

loads of really interesting things hopefully.

1:13.0

I'm feeling a bit Monday, it's a Monday today when we're recording and I feel a bit Monday a bit

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