{"id":7610,"date":"2023-03-01T20:01:44","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T20:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/01\/mel-b-i-dont-know-if-i-trust-cops-enough-to-report-domestic-abuse\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T20:01:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T20:01:44","slug":"mel-b-i-dont-know-if-i-trust-cops-enough-to-report-domestic-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/01\/mel-b-i-dont-know-if-i-trust-cops-enough-to-report-domestic-abuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Mel B: &apos;I don&apos;t know if I trust cops enough to report domestic abuse&apos;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-03-01\" datetime=\"1677700904\" pubdate=\"\">1 March 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/mel-b\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,mel-b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mel B<\/a> says she doesn\u2019t think she trusts police enough to report domestic abuse.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Mel B says she doesn\u2019t think she trusts police enough to report domestic abuse<\/p>\n<p>The 47-year-old Spice Girl \u2013 who claimed she was in an abusive relationship with her ex-husband <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/stephen-belafonte\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,stephen-belafonte\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stephen Belafonte<\/a> and become a patron of Women\u2019s Aid campaigns \u2013 added officers need to be educated on the signs someone is being targeted by a toxic or violent partner, and said she feared they wouldn\u2019t take such allegations \u201cseriously\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She told BBC Two\u2019s Newsnight in an interview that will air on Wednesday (01.03.23) night: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t (call police), because I wouldn\u2019t know if they would take it (domestic abuse) seriously.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike, if I\u2019m living here and I want to report it to the police, I don\u2019t know if I can trust the police. I don\u2019t know if they\u2019re going to take my allegations seriously.<\/p>\n<p>The mum-of-three \u2013 who had daughter Madison, 11, with Stephen, and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/phoenix\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,phoenix\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Phoenix<\/a>, 22, with her ex Jimmy Gulzar and Angel, 15, with Eddie Murphy \u2013 warned \u201cyounger and younger\u201d people are becoming trapped in abusive relationships as \u201ckids\u201d are now being more intimate earlier.<\/p>\n<p>\nMel also branded the issue of domestic violence an \u201cepidemic\u201d in her chat.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe split from film producer Stephen, 47, in 2017 and claimed he had emotionally and physically abused her during their 10-year marriage \u2013 which he has strongly denied.<\/p>\n<p>\nMel, who split from Stephen in 2017, said during her recent appearance on Fox\u2019s \u2018Special Forces: World\u2019s Toughest Test\u2019 she had been living in fear and hoped the show\u2019s endurance course would help her regain her inner power.<\/p>\n<p>\nShe added: \u201cI ended up being in a very horrible abusive 10 year relationship. I felt worthless, you feel helpless. I\u2019m facing huge fears.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI\u2019m just going to bring out that inner person that I hope isn\u2019t dead and gone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe full Newsnight interview airs at 11pm on Wednesday on BBC Two and can be seen on BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/mel-know-trust-cops-enough-report-domestic-abuse-1374433.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1 March 2023 Mel B says she doesn\u2019t think she trusts police enough to report domestic abuse. Mel B says she doesn\u2019t think she trusts police enough to report domestic abuse The 47-year-old Spice Girl \u2013 who claimed she was in an abusive relationship with her ex-husband Stephen Belafonte and become a patron of Women\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7611,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[978,980,979,976,35,977,975],"class_list":{"0":"post-7610","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-angel","9":"tag-eddie-murphy","10":"tag-jimmy-gulzar","11":"tag-madison","12":"tag-mel-b","13":"tag-phoenix","14":"tag-stephen-belafonte"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}