Spice Girls member Mel B has opened up about how she is planning to go into therapy after recently being diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Being brutally honest, Mel B revealed that she turned to drinking to help "numb the pain" when revisiting painful memories from her troubled marriage to Stephen Belafonte in her forthcoming memoir entitled Brutally Honest.

It emerged during their divorce that Mel B had been subjected to physical and emotional abuse during their ten year marriage.

"The past six months have been incredibly difficult for me, the 43-year-old revealed yesterday in an interview with the Sun on Sunday. "I've been working with a writer on my book, Brutally Honest, and it has been unbelievably traumatic reliving an emotionally abusive relationship and confronting so many massive issues in my life.

"I am being very honest about drinking to numb my pain but that is just a way a lot of people mask what is really going on.

"Sometimes it is too hard to cope with all the emotions I feel. But the problem has never been about sex or alcohol - it is underneath all that.

"I am fully aware I have been at a crisis point. No-one knows myself better than I do - but I am dealing with it.

"I have made the decision to go into a proper therapy programme in the next few weeks, but it has to be in the UK because I am very, very British and I know that will work best for me."

I’m so excited to finally be able to show you the cover for my new book Brutally Honest. It comes out in November. Have you pre-ordered it yet? https://t.co/ivJmjUxFAp pic.twitter.com/vUIDOs0LkN

— Melanie Brown (@OfficialMelB) 23 de agosto de 2018

Mel B says she hopes "shining a light" on her own battle with PTSD will encourage others to seek help too.

"I am still struggling but if I can shine a light on the issue of pain, PTSD and the things men and women do to mask it, I will do. I am speaking about this because this is a huge issue for so many people," Mel B said.

"I'm not perfect, and I have never pretended to be. But I am working on being a better version of myself for my kids - whom I love more than life itself - and for all the people who have supported me."

Have you preordered my book #BrutallyHonest?

If not, you can do it right now mah loves! 💜https://t.co/durTuH6Wmj

— Melanie Brown (@OfficialMelB) 25 de julio de 2018