Mel B and Her Sister Danielle on Ending Their 10 Year Feud | This Morning

now sisters Melanie and Danielle Brown were inseparable growing up sharing clothes sharing secrets are looking out for one another but during her charm ultra smash - Stephen Belafonte Mel drifted away from her family using contact with them for 10 years well thankfully all of that has now changed and Mel and Danielle are closer than ever as they join us now in an exclusive chat and welcome and it's so nice to have sisters here on the sofa it's really lovely and growing up that was always the case wasn't it you were five years sort of a part in age but inseparable in in every other way you were very very close yes I would like together all the time and I used to babysit you a lot actually yeah good no and you were protective of her I mean even Tony trouble at school you had the right person on your side she was there the school day it's to saw anyone else yeah I was like Big Sisters original scary yeah so how how did it all go wrong then what happened well I was in a 10-year marriage and it wasn't the nicest marriage at all and I got very very isolated from my friends my family was really traumatic in what way well that was in a coercive kind of not very nice relationship yeah so and one of those things that happens in that kind of relationship you kind of get cut off from your friends and family so it was very kind of emotionally was it a dream is it a gradual thing oh yeah I mean we were talk at the very beginning yeah yeah I married weren't we yeah but not for long when did you guys not to notice it from a family point of view then and just like a lot of the close friends and like people who works for a EPA and things you know that's always been there kind of got pushed and pushed you on sighs it was didn't gradual that way and then we was the last ones to go a me my mom and dad and because I lived in LA my trips back to leaves got less and less and less because you know my then-husband was very very controlling and very kind of was kind of very mean that he did that family he isolated you completely really that's how you said there was sort of friends that he was texting pretending to be you sort of saying not to get in contact so you were very much on your own there was there was a phone call in particular I think this was just after you need your wedding flowers in Egypt I think if I hoping it getting the timeline right and you were pretty much sort of repeating things that he was telling me yesterday I don't want to have any contact with you which is it's not even my words so that's not to say to my mom and my sister but that's what I was gonna ask you so when you're saying these words what's going through your head at that time well it's a thing of if I don't say it like this there's gonna be a big argument and a big fight and I didn't want that to keep on happening even though it did happen constantly for 10 years so I had to pick my battles and for me to be isolated from my family was a battle that I constantly battled but I I always lost and so to be able to you know I admit that and then start mending our relationship has been quite a healing process because I did get divorced with it about two and a half years ago yeah about two years ago yeah and there was a lot of apologizing that I had to do especially to my sister and my mom and I wrote a book about it brutally honest yeah just to try and for me to understand what I went through and it's something that I'm feel really strong about to talk about and educate people on what a healthy relationship should look like I'm also on a mission to heal what we've been through because you you were quite traumatized yourself to ten years because he was so close well that because that was the thing because you had no contact and you're seeing your sister on the TV you you know your system well you could see in her eyes yeah there's a sadness there and yet to not be able to call her reach out to her help her must have been a horrible sort of and lots of people say well why can't you just turn up at her house or why you know people didn't really understand I believe it you know well she looks fine on TV but you just know when it she sister that the blankness threw it in her eyes their eyes to me always looked dead so you'd know deep down she's not that happy and when I would me my mom and dad would find out her phone number found out her address it all then be changed she'd move on her yeah she'd change her phone number she changed her email or you get a horrible email back saying I want nothing to do with you and then obviously later on we know it's not Melanie it was him playing on her email and obviously with something like this we have to go to the other party yeah and and so we have done that because he's just gonna deny everything well it's just crazy I'm gonna have to read it out yeah he says this whole thing is a fraud Mel lived and worked in other parts of the world for months at a time how could I influence who she did and didn't call I couldn't I proved in court documents that now had constant contact with her mom and sister and I have other emails and text messages to refute what they are both saying absolutely so we have to read that yes honey and opción oh that's difficult for you to hear well that's why I teamed up with women's their charity because they're very supportive with with a women and men that I've been through what I've been through because it is you know I lost 10 years of being with my sister being with my mom they lot you lost out on my kids I lost out on your kids yeah and you know what if what I've said is a lie then sue me I've only my book has been out since November and my book is not just my word it's 14 other people's words that have witnessed the abuse and the turmoil and emotional roller course of that I suffered for tell me what do you say to other women who will be watching this now and maybe would recognize a relationship like that well in the back of my book this I do 15 signs of what a relationship like mine looks like and I found out that it happens more often than not there's actually an epidemic going on right now in Britain where women a lot of women are either stuck in that relationship or they've gotten out and they're still being harassed and somewhat abused on some level and it's something that we do need to talk about and educate and I think it's really important now kids and men and women know what a healthy relationship looks like and what it feels like and that's why we're actually doing a talk the Grand Theatre in Leeds August 25th me my mom and my sister yeah and my daughter Felix because it's important to talk about it because it's such a taboo thing I said no you're not been through this it's hard for you guys now you want but thank goodness you're back together thank you are back and she's about to have a baby so you look at me just had a few pies Envy but it's um it can't be easy to put it all completely back together again no I mean no it's sad it's up and down there is a rollercoaster because it's like you say it's a ten-year gap of no contact at all and a lots been said and done and happened in ten years but I think we're good it's a healing process and we will go to a public cursor now as well you know cause a bit and there must be sadness there as well for what you've lost in those ten years the things you haven't seen I mean I know your kids are now really close and that's really lovely but you would have missed out on those milestones I imagined this way this baby is so important because you'll be there it's right there I mean I did get really angry about that because a lot of time has been lost I'm trying to do catch up and make up right now but you know I think we just talked about it and that's what we do well between me my mum and Phoenix was 20 and yeah and I think working with women's ed you know you realize how much it happens to other people and how much we can actually help and how much we can just educate and start talking about it really and not making such a certain thing that it's a hush-hush how does your mom feel oh she's so happy absolutely and just to have all the grandchildren together and you know her two daughters together and that's the thing it's like there's only as to it's it's like I felt like an only child almost for ten years and just you know but now it's back on track back and Mel for you I mean time life is good right now you're in a really good place you've got your sister your family back the huge success of the tour having like girls all together again my gosh and it was nice that you were there cuz she was there for most of my tour yeah the first one is round and my mother plane and my kids is it's just it's good times I feel like now life is getting better and better and better because I don't live a lie I don't live that horrible relationship of guilt and shame and embarrassment and I'm just yeah feeling myself get along with her well it's lovely to see both good luck with this no but you can have the baby [Laughter] you

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Length: 9min 25sec (565 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 26 2019