Victoria Beckham has revealed Geri Halliwell never told her Spice Girls bandmates she was quitting the group and simply ‘just left’.
The fashion designer, 50, opened up about Geri famously leaving the group at the height of their fame in 1998 and her transition from pop star to mother.
Speaking on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Victoria told how she and Mel B, Mel C and Emma Bunton were shocked when Geri simply didn’t turn up for work one day.
‘She just left,’ she said. ‘I was on the phone to Geri this morning about something completely different and we even laughed about it.
‘She just left and we had no idea until she just didn’t turn up. We can laugh about it now but at the time we were like, “OK.”‘
When the Spice Girls later reunited in 2019 without Victoria, Geri apologised for quitting the group during their sold-out gig at Wembley Stadium.
Victoria Beckham has revealed Geri Halliwell never told her Spice Girls bandmates she was quitting the group and simply ‘just left’
The fashion designer, 50, opened up about Geri famously leaving the group at the height of their fame in 1998 (L-R Emma Bunton, Mel C, Victoria, Geri and Mel B in 1996)
‘I’m sorry. I’m sorry I left. I was just being a brat. I want to say it’s just so good to be back with the girls that I love,’ she told the crowd.
Victoria also discussed eventually leaving the group herself two years later and settling into motherhood when her eldest son Brooklyn is born.
‘I met David when I was 22, I was pregnant when I was 24. I went on tour when I was pregnant. I remember being in Miami in August, it is hot.
‘I was in a PVC catsuit, I was pregnant, it was an ampitheatre. I had a bucket on the side of the stage and I had to keep running off stage, I had terrible morning sickness. I was so sick with Brooklyn.
‘I remember saying to the tour manager, I can’t do it anymore and he said, you’ve gotta do it, there’s only a 103 more shows to go. After those shows finished, I had Brooklyn.’
Although she loved being a mother, Victoria admitted going from a busy life in one of the biggest pop groups in the world to being at home with a baby was a difficult adjustment.
‘I moved to Manchester and David is playing for Manchester United. It was quite the transition for me. I was so happy to be with David, have a baby,’ she said.
‘I felt so blessed but I felt a bit lost as well. To go from travelling the world, being on stage with your best friends to all of a sudden being in a flat with a baby, it was tough.’
Speaking on the Call Her Daddy podcast, Victoria told how she and Mel B , Mel C and Emma Bunton were shocked when Geri simply didn’t turn up for work one day
Elsewhere during the interview, Victoria was asked about her husband David’s affair with Rebecca Loos (pictured) and said ‘we’ve had so much thrown at at us’
Elsewhere during the interview, Victoria was asked about her husband David’s affair with Rebecca Loos.
The star was asked: ‘You’ve dealt with speculations throughout your whole career about your marriage.
‘I know David touched on this in the documentary. Can you just explain how you and David handled this?’
David, 50, famously talked about the reports surrounding his 2004 with his former PA Rebecca in his own Netflix show, released in October 2023.
And without flinching, Victoria responded that all she and David have been through has only served to make their union stronger over time.
She said: ‘Do you know… we’ve had so much thrown at us and we were talking about it because we’ve recently celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary and by the way, people said it wouldn’t work…
’26 years,’ she reiterated.
‘We’ve had so much thrown at us and we’ve always just been there together and just ridden the damn storm.’
