Mel B reveals she was asked to 'get out' of a store by a racist shop assistant

Mel B has discussed the horrifying racist abuse she endured during her career in the Spice Girls.

The 45-year-old Spice Girls star, who was born to a white British mother and a black father from the Caribbean island of Nevis, has opened up about her experiences with racism amid global protests in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.

She told OK! Magazine in an open letter: 'Even when I was a world famous Spice Girl playing a concert for Prince Charles and Nelson Mandela in South Africa, I was asked by a shop assistant in a designer store to get out.

Adding that she was left humiliated - but not surprised - by the 1997 incident, she said: 'The other girls were outraged and started screaming at the assistant. I wasn't shocked, I was embarrassed. 

'I was angry and I was really sad that a lot of people in post Mandela South Africa were still racist.'