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Mel B\u2019s ex-husband told her she had \u201cruined\u201d her career by portraying herself as a \u201cvictim\u201d.<\/p>\n
The Spice Girls singer has spoken of her alleged ordeal at the hands of Stephen Belafonte, and now emails exchanged between the pair in May 2021 \u2013 which have been made public as part of an ongoing legal dispute over the care of their 11-year-old daughter Madison \u2013 show the producer telling his former spouse to \u201cstop\u201d with her abuse claims.<\/p>\n
According to RadarOnline.com, Mel\u2019s lawyer accused Belafonte of leaving the singer \u201clargely in the dark\u201d and \u201cfailing to provide her with even basic information\u201d about their daughter\u2019s whereabouts, and asked for the court to order that any caretaker outside of immediate family must be approved by both of Madison\u2019s parents before they can look after the youngster.<\/p>\n
Mel accused her ex of consistently failing to \u201cadequately co-parent\u201d and \u201cnot timely providing addresses for where Madison resides while in his care.\u201d<\/p>\n
Watch video:<\/strong><\/p>\n She took particular issue with her ex-husband allowing their daughter to stay with a woman named Bahare and her family for days at a time without seeking Mel\u2019s approval first.<\/p>\n And the \u201cI Want You Back\u201d hitmaker later learned the caregiver was a \u201cclose associate\u201d of their former nanny Lorraine Gilles, who was previously said to have had threesomes with her ex-employers.<\/p>\n The lawyer noted: \u201cBahare is actually a close associate of Lorraine Gilles, whom both Stephen and the Court are aware is not permitted to be around Madison under any circumstance.\u201d<\/p>\n Belafonte insisted he had kept his ex-wife informed about Madison\u2019s life and whereabouts, and that she was fully aware of Bahare looking after their daughter.<\/p>\n In an email dated May 12, 2021, Mel wrote to Belafonte about an upcoming flight to the UK for Madison and asked: \u201cDo you have someone appropriate and suitable to bring madison over to the uk? If not I\u2019m booking her with an inflight chaperone flying out may 21st.<\/p>\n \u201cTo be very clear As you now Lorraine [redacted]. This is highly inappropriate of you to suggest this. Either come up with a suitable individual or agree to the inflight chaperone. Much appreciated.\u201d<\/p>\n He responded: \u201cI just asked you a question I did not abuse you would you stop it with all this abuse stuff you\u2019ve single-handedly ruined your career trying to look like a victim and no one bought into it and now you keep preaching it to me no matter how much you say it it\u2019s not gonna make that ever came true if I was so abusive and so hurtful you should be flourishing with your career in life now and not worrying about me just our daughter.\u201d<\/p>\n The producer went on to insist he hadn\u2019t done anything wrong in making his choice of chaperone.<\/p>\n He continued: \u201cI wasn\u2019t trying to abuse you by offering someone who I trust around our daughter and you trust it until you made up lies about the person. <\/p>\n \u201cI was only interested in our daughter\u2019s safety and I knew she would be someone who would never Hurt our daughter.<\/p>\n \u201cYou gave me a reply and I dropped it. It was just a suggestion I could\u2019ve said [redacted] or among a ton of other people that you had watching our daughter that I\u2019ve met with recently.\u201d<\/p>\n He then hit out at Mel for not flying out to the US to collect Madison herself.<\/p>\n He wrote: \u201cIt is very weird that you wanted Madison to come out but made no preparations to have anyone of your loyal subjects fly to pick up our daughter and are relying on a chaperoned which will never happen.<\/p>\n \u201cNothing is stopping you from getting on a plane and coming to Los Angeles except for maybe a couple lawsuits but that shouldn\u2019t stop you from seeing our daughter to pick her up and make sure she\u2019s OK.\u201d<\/p>\n Mel\u2019s legal team submitted the emails as part of her plea for the court to intervene.<\/p>\n