Entertainment | Mel B Mel B Admits 'Drinking to Numb My Pain' Says she'll get treatment for sex, alcohol addiction By Arden Dier Posted Aug 28, 2018 12:53 PM CDT Copied Melanie Brown is photographed in Beverly Hills, Calif., on Aug. 2, 2016. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP, File) Mel B has a hurdle to clear before embarking on a Spice Girls tour next year. Admitting to "drinking to numb my pain" from an allegedly abusive marriage and the death of her father last year, the 43-year-old singer and America's Got Talent judge tells the Sun she plans to enter a UK center to address sex and alcohol addictions "in the next few weeks," per the BBC. "Sometimes it is too hard to cope with all the emotions I feel." "But the problem has never been about sex or alcohol—it is underneath all that," she says, citing a recent PTSD diagnosis. "If I can shine a light on the issue of pain, PTSD and the things men and women do to mask it, I will do," she said. The mother of three will then reportedly embark on a 13-date UK 2019 tour with the Spice Girls minus Victoria Beckham, who's busy with her fashion line, the Telegraph reported Tuesday. Read These Next Venezuela responds to the US seizure of an oil tanker. Hours after Michigan fired its football coach, he was in jail. Another big brand delivers an AI-driven holiday dud. One donor, 197 kids, and a terrible genetic mutation. Report an error