“What happened to me, I buried it right away because there were other things I needed to focus on,” she said, telling Day that the weeks of rehearsals and preparation the band put in made her want to focus on performing and not attack. “Everything was leading to the top of everything I would like to do.” “I didn’t want to make a fuss, but I also didn’t have time to deal with it,” he said. Chisholm described the assault as “mild” on a spectrum of sexual assault, and told Day that although she had not originally intended to mention the assault in her memoir, she decided to write about it after remembering it in a dream. “I think it’s really important for me to say it and face it and finally process it.” “Terrible things happen all the time, and this situation wasn’t as bad as it could have been,” Chisholm told Day, noting that being in “an environment where you take your clothes off with this professional” added to the ensuing confusion. her. around the event. “I felt very vulnerable, I felt embarrassed.” In the years since the Spice Girls broke up, Chisholm has been open about the struggles she faced while a member of the group. Speaking to the Guardian in 2020, she said she was “struggling with an eating disorder and suffering from depression” at the height of her fame. Last year, he filed a lawsuit against Rupert Murdoch’s News Group newspapers, claiming he was the victim of phone hacking.
In the UK, Rape Crisis offers support for rape and sexual abuse on 0808 802 9999 in England and Wales, 0808 801 0302 in Scotland or 0800 0246 991 in Northern Ireland. In the US, Rainn offers support at 800-656-4673. In Australia, support is available on 1800Respect (1800 737 732). Other international helplines can be found at ibiblio.org/rcip/internl.html
