If you think Mel B’s upcoming tell-all book Brutally Honest will include juicy stories about Eddie Murphy, think again.
The 43-year-old Spice Girls alum, a source told The Sun, ‘has to be very careful about her chapter on Eddie because they have a legal deal in place’ that impacts what she can say publicly about the 57-year-old actor, who she shares 11-year-old daughter Angel with.
The 2007 legal deal, the source said, ‘came in the aftermath of him denying being the dad of Angel and then working out a financial deal through lawyers.’
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Silenced: Mel B, seen in LA in April, will not mention her relationship with Eddie Murphy in her forthcoming tell-all Brutally Honest due to a preexisting legal agreement, The Sun reports
The source said that attorneys for her publisher ‘are looking at how to get around problematic aspects of it, but Mel will not be able to talk about the financials or personal aspects of Eddie’s sex life.
‘A book exposing the highs and lows of their relationship would not be helpful.’
The gorgeous entertainer, whose full name is Melanie Brown, could be on the hook for significant fines if she were to break the preexisting legal pact, according to the publication.
That silence presumably doesn’t apply to the America’s Got Talent judge’s ex-husband Stephen Belafonte, as she’s focused on showing how ‘abuse can happen to anyone’ in her writings on her former marriage, which was fraught with allegations of physical and emotional abuse she aimed at Belafonte.
Way back when: Murphy, seen in 2010 in NYC, reached a financial settlement with the singer 11 years back
Mel, who has a six-year-old daughter named Madison with Belafonte, previously said that she hoped to set an example as a mom with the forthcoming tome. (She previously wrote a memoir in 2003 called Catching A Fire.)
‘It is important my three girls, who I raise as a single mother, know how to break the chain of abuse – along with any other woman who reads this book,’ she said in a statement in April.
Belafonte told The Sun earlier this month he’s confident that he won’t appear in the pages of the memoir: ‘I’ll bet you a billion dollars I am not mentioned in her book … I won’t be in that book. I think what she’s done is dumb. It’s dumb for her brand.’
Brutally Honest is expected to be released in November.
Awww! Mel and Eddie are parents to adorable Angel Iris, seen with her mom in 2016 in LA