Spice Girls star Mel B has revealed a heated confrontation with Sean “Diddy” Combs.
Mel B revealed a shocking encounter in her tell-all book Brutally Honest, describing how Diddy disrupted her rehearsal time at the 1998 MOBO Awards in London, according to a report by Mirror.
“People think I am so tough, and to some degree I am. I can stand my ground against the likes of Sean ‘P. Diddy’ ‘Puffy’ Combs, who – back in 1998, when I’d been asked to host the MOBO Awards in London – wouldn’t get off the stage to let me start my rehearsals for the show. I had to perform as well as host the show,” she revealed.
Mel B recalled further, “He’d turned up with a massive entourage and then run into my rehearsal time with the clock ticking less than an hour before the doors were due to open. I was watching, fuming, as he said he wanted another run-through. I marched out towards him. ‘No, I need to rehearse my song NOW,’ I said.”
“He didn’t even look at me, just raised his mic and said, ‘Get this bitch off the stage,'” she said in the book.
Adding, “I was livid. This was a British show, and we don’t behave like that over here. No one has the right to say that about anyone. I went up and poked him in the shoulder. ‘What did you say? Get WHAT off the stage?’ He tried to ignore me, so I said, ‘Listen, I’m introducing you tonight, so I’d be nice if I were you. The doors are opening in ten minutes. I need to rehearse. Can you get off the f**king stage!'”
Later, Diddy tried to make amends by sending her a jacket with his name on it, Mel B noted, “it looked like a bloody cagoule.”
“There’s no way I’d be walking around with his name on my back. ‘Thanks,’ I said with a fake smile, then I threw it back at the bouncer. I wanted to send a message back. Nobody has the right to treat anyone like that. And some crummy jacket was not an acceptable apology,” Mel B revealed further.
