Spice Girl Rushed To Hospital

Spice Girls star Mel B was hospitalized over the weekend for two broken ribs and what she describes as a “severed right hand” after suffering a fall at a friend’s home in London on Saturday night. The 43-year-old entertainer shared some photos on Instagram, including one of the Spice Girls visiting her in the hospital.

“Thank you to all the wonderful nurses, doctors, and my amazing surgeon for the care and expertise given to me here at the hospital I’ve been staying at,” Mel wrote on Instagram. “Suffering 2 broken ribs [and] a severed right hand, needing emergency care, to having had to have over a 3 hr surgery to repair the damage hence the purple sling, I’ve had to unfortunately cancel my book signing today in NY.”

“My right arm/hand is all stitched up and I’m trying to keep still to heal my broken ribs. Ohhh the pain, but I’m in super safe hands with the care of everyone here at the hospital. Thank you all for understanding,” she added.

Her close friend Gary Madatyan told People that Mel B was sleeping in the upstairs room of a friend’s house on Saturday night when she attempted to navigate a narrow staircase and ultimately slipped. “She was upstairs and the room was dark,” he said. “Everyone knows one of her eyes does not see 100 percent.” Despite her former husband Stephen Belafonte’s claims that Brown’s drug and alcohol use made her a danger to her children, Madatyan rebuffed any speculation that substances played any role in her accident, providing documents showing the singer’s clean drug test results from December 6th. “She’s not a drug addict; she’s not an alcoholic. It’s just nasty what people are saying,” he said.