Former All Saints singer Melanie Blatt has described how there was always a ‘difficult relationship’ between the four band members.
The 50-year-old rose to fame in 1997 as a member of the girl group, who sold more than 10 million record sales worldwide.
Towards the end of last year, Melanie was tipped to appear on the next series of Strictly Come Dancing after her stint on the Christmas special.
Now, however, the popstar-turned-chef has explained how All Saints, which was made up of sisters Nicole and Natalie Appleton and Shaznay Lewis, had a ‘tricky dynamic’ in a new interview.
‘For a start, you’ve got two sisters. Nic and I were best friends when we were 11, then Shaz and I were best friends… we could never get it right,’ she told the Good Housekeeping UK magazine.
‘It’s such a shame; I think if we’d got it right, we’d have been laughing. At the same time, we didn’t fake it. We didn’t pretend we were okay.
‘And we certainly didn’t stay in the band for money.’
In October last year, Melanie opened up about how she and bandmate Nicole were ‘pressured’ into getting an abortion.
In their documentary, GirlBands Forever, Melanie said how bosses reportedly tried to convince them that having a baby would ‘ruin’ their fame.
Discussing that moment with the magazine, she explained: ‘I’d only been dating Lily’s dad (Jamiroquai bassist Stuart Zender) for a couple of months and the pregnancy was unplanned, but I knew that having the baby was absolutely the right thing for me.
‘Nic decided to have an abortion, but we didn’t really discuss it because we didn’t have the communication skills to do so.
‘I don’t think we’ve ever spoken about it, to this day.’
Melanie added that she spent ‘many, many years feeling ashamed about being in a pop band’, but is now more comfortable hearing the group’s songs.
‘I wanted to work with Timbaland and Missy Elliott. I didn’t want to release Pure Shores,’ she said.
‘I was always making a fuss, I was always upset, and I was wrong. It became our biggest song.’
After appearing on the Strictly Christmas Special, Melanie said she would love to publish a cookery book or have her own cooking show.
She added: ‘Something like Cheeses Of The World, where I travel to Africa and Asia and talk to people about cheese.
‘I’m putting it out there, because I’m going to make it happen.’
The full interview can be read now in the April issue of Good Housekeeping UK.
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