English singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality, Melanie Janine Brown also known as Mel B and her daughters seem to have suffered a big domestic and emotional abuse at the hands of Mel B’s ex-husband Stephen Belafonte.
According to a letter shared by Mel B’s mom, Andrea Brown, which she claimed was written by 10-year-old Angel (Mel B second daughter), Belafonte, who finalised his divorce from Mel in December, put the family through a “nightmare” and Angel allegedly never wants to see him again. The letter reads: “I’m very frightened of Stephen. When he is mad it’s terrifying. I never want to see him ever again it’d be like reliving a horrible part of my life. The worst part about the times I lived with him is when I’d try to stop the fights and cursing. When I tried he would say ‘oh shut up’ and I would be so scared I wouldn’t say anything else.”
“I witnessed a physical fight. I was lying down in my mother’s room ‘sleeping’. I woke up to a fight. I can’t remember what it was about, but I heard Stephen hitting mommys hand, it was hard cause I heard it. Mommy said ‘you snapped my nail off’ so it was hard. I attempted to fake sleep cause I didn’t want to interfere and get hurt. I don’t want to see the man that causes so much damage to my mother leading her living through a nightmare.” The letter also claims that Stephen’s daughter Giselle told Angel that Murphy was her real dad when she was five. She adds in the letter: “Extremely proud of that. I got an amazing relationship with my sisters, brothers, grandma and my father Eddie Murphy!”
“When I lived with Stephen the rules were the strictest. When we ate food we had to sit on the floor instead of the dinner table. He said we would make a mess on the table. I wondered if you make a mess on the dinner table you just clean it up? What’s the point of having a dinner table if you don’t eat on it? Stephen never came into my room and when I say never is N.E.V.E.R he was to busy on his computer. I’m happy I don’t see him any more. Now I live in a beautiful house and wait when I lived with Stephen I could never get a dog and guess what! Now I have two dogs and a goat! We can eat up an actual dinner table and I can see my REAL dad. I create small picture books and I have no more fear. I love seeing my real dad! And I loved seeing my mother happy! Not sad! Please don’t make me see him again – ps Angel.”
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