Mel B Gets Brutally Honest

OK! BRINGS YOU AN EXCLUSIVE EXTRACT FROM THE SPICE GIRL’S EXPLOSIVE NEW BOOK.

As a child I was called ‘The Wind’, but to Eddie [Murphy] I was ‘The Whirlwind’. The first day that I went to his house, I shouted, ‘I’m here, where are you?’ and then ran through his beautiful, pristine mansion, and ran around the garden, jumping onto the steps of the swimming pool, listening to my loud voice echo through the giant building. ‘I’m here, where are you?’ he yelled back. ‘Come and find me,’ I hollered back from the top of a giant Gone with the Wind sweeping staircase.

‘Er, excuse me, madam.’ A guy with a seriously anxious expression came running out of a room. ‘Mr Murphy doesn’t like anyone making loud noises,’ he said. ‘Melanie, I can’t see you,’ came Eddie’s voice, bellowing from a room downstairs. ‘I think he does now,’ I said to the man who turned out to be a member of his household staff. And I ran down the stairs, yelling, ‘I’m here,’ before sprinting through another doorway and being chased by Eddie, who was laughing. Right from the get-go we were like two little excitable kids.

His place was gobsmackingly incredible. In the foyer, there was a glass roof and a button you pushed to make the whole ceiling open up. There was a tiny, perfect Wendy house in the playroom, and a vast jacuzzi which I later discovered he’d never even been in. After a couple of days, I made him get in it. Naked.