Mel B To Enter Rehab For Alcohol, Sex Addiction

American actress and television personality, Melanie Janine Brown, popularly known as Mel B, has revealed her decision to check herself into a rehab facility next month to help her cope with alcohol and sex addiction.

Mel B made the revelation during an interview with The Sun.

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According to her, “it has been unbelievably traumatic reliving an emotionally abusive relationship and confronting so many massive issues in her life.”

She said; “I have made the decision to go into a proper therapy [program] in the next few weeks, but it has to be in the UK because I am very, very British and I know that will work best for me.

“The past six months have been incredibly difficult for me,” she told the publication. “I’ve been working with a writer on my book, Brutally Honest, and it has been unbelievably traumatic reliving an emotionally abusive relationship and confronting so many massive issues in my life.

“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. I am fully aware I have been at a crisis point. No one knows myself better than I do — but I am dealing with it.

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“I am still struggling but 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. “I am speaking about this because this is a huge issue for so many people.”

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