ON RETURNING TO AMERICA'S GOT TALENT: This Feels Like A Triumph!

THE FOREVER SPICE GIRL CELEBRATES A HAPPY NEW CHAPTER IN HER LIFE

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Mel B couldn’t be more excited to be back at the judges’ table on America’s Got Talent after a seven-year absence. “We're pulling out all the stops,” she says of the upcoming 20th season. Her return — alongside Simon Cowell, Howie Mandel and Sofia Vergara — is an emotional one: The 49-year-old Spice Girls singer (real name: Melanie Brown) was still dealing with the fallout of a messy divorce from ex Stephen Belafonte when she stepped away in 2018, and she’s done a lot of healing since then. “In my final year on AGT, I was not in a good place,” says the mom of three (she shares Phoenix, 26, with Jimmy Gulzar, Angel, 18, with Eddie Murphy and Madison, 13, with Stephen). “So this feels like a triumph for me. There is hope. You can piece your life back together with the support of good people around you.” Here, she talks to In Touch’s Fortune Benatar about her wedding plans with her hairdresser fiancé Rory McPhee and the latest on a Spice Girls reunion tour.

You’ve said you were going through a rough time toward the end of your last stint on the show. What has your healing process been like?