Five freezing minutes to alert.
Former Spice Girl Mel B participates in an awareness campaign on domestic violence, initiated by the British association Women's Aid, which fights against violence against women.
She thus appears in a clip by pianist Fabio D'Andrea, entitled
Love Should Not Hurt
, where she plays a woman beaten by her companion.
For several minutes, and with piano notes as the only music, we discover the two sides of this couple: in public, where they seem to have perfect love, and in private, where the woman is beaten up.
A particularly trying clip where Mel B appears disfigured, her face swollen, under the influence of a violent man.
A video that echoes the singer's own story.
"You live in a nightmare"
It was in 2017, in the midst of a divorce with Stephen Belafonte, that Melanie Brown revealed that she had been the victim of domestic violence from her ex-husband for several years. She had shared her ordeal in a very long Instagram post. Since then the singer fights against domestic violence, and in particular encourages women victims of abuse to break the silence. “You live in a nightmare, and in front of the outside world you say that everything is fine because you are so embarrassed, eaten up by guilt, and worried that no one will believe you,” she told the
Guardian
in particular
.
At the end of this video, a message from the Women's Aid association appears, recalling the alarming figures concerning domestic violence: “One in three women in the world, around 376 million, is subjected to physical or sexual violence from from an intimate partner or sexual violence from a non-partner ”.
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