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Mel C: The Harsh Reality Of Being In The World’s Biggest Girl Band

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Before we start, I've got to be honest with you about something. Um When we recorded this episode with Mal C, um, it was honestly one of the most moving, heartbreaking, inspiring, revealing conversations I've ever had on this podcast. And I've been looking forward to sharing this conversation with you for some time now. Um And then we had an incident.

Where one of our hard drives was stolen. And we lost the audio for Mel's mic. Which is really, really heartbreaking because of all the episodes to lose the audio for For it to be this one is

has been very hard to deal with. And I think I I want to start by apologising to Mel because she came here, she shared her story in such a profound, vulnerable way. And I've carried the sense of guilt because um Because when people come here, not only they're giving us their time, but they're giving us their story. And for some people as is the case in this conversation, it's the first time that that story has been shared in this way. So I've been really struggling with that. But because it was such a profound story, and to to make sure we Honor all of that which Mel gave us by coming here. Um, we spent a lot of time fixing the

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