Mel B pays tribute to late father Martin Brown as the star emotionally reveals her grief is 'unbearable' two years after his death
- Martin Brown passed away in March 2017 following a battle with myeloma cancer
- The singer, 43, discussed their relationship prior to his death on Piers Morgan's Life Stories
- The British star explained that her last conversation with her father gave her the strength to leave her estranged husband Stephen Belafonte
Mel B paid tribute to her late father on Tuesday as she celebrated what would have been his 65th birthday.
The Spice Girls star, 43, took to Instagram to share a photo with her dad Martin Brown, who passed away in March 2017 following a battle with cancer.
Posting a snap of them together on the red carpet from yesteryear, a youthful Mel beamed in an one-shouldered crochet dress while she rested her arm on her father's shoulder.
Emotional: Mel B paid tribute to her late father on Tuesday as she celebrated what would have been his 65th birthday
Captioning the shot from 2001, an emotional Mel B wrote about how she's still reeling from her father's death two years on and wishes she and sister Danielle had one more day with him.
She penned: 'Happy birthday dad I'm missing you more now than ever, I really really am in the most amount of pain, it is actually unbearable!!
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'But I do wish you could see me now happy and strong j am now thank god, I no you would be sooo proud of me and of Danielle.
'We have morphed into you now big time we don’t deal with people who hurt us in life and we stick together as a family thanks to you dad, I love you sooo much, I just wish I could of had one more day one more cuddle that’s all #imissyou' (sic).
Opening up: Mel B, pictured took to Instagram to share a photo with her dad Martin Brown, who passed away in March 2017 following a battle with cancer
Heartbreaking: Captioning the shot from 2001, an emotional Mel B wrote about how she's still reeling from her father's death two years on
After battling multiple myeloma cancer since 2012, Martin, who is originally from Saint Kitts and Nevis, had been given just days to live in 2015 but eventually lost his cancer battle in 2017.
Mel opened up about the distance they had forged in the years leading up to his passing on Piers Morgan's Life Stories on Saturday.
Having not seen her family for six years prior as she had been living in the states, Mel came back to the UK to be with her family after discovering her father was dying.
Sisters: In the post, Mel said that she wished she and sister Danielle (L) had one more day with him
Mel explained: 'When I saw him, he didn’t even look anything remotely like how I remember my dad looking like.
'But he sounded like my dad when he managed to whisper, "I love you".'
In the emotional interview, she said: 'I felt really bad, because I hadn't seen him in so long and then I see him like that, I felt really bad and I felt really angry at my husband and I felt really bad for my kids.
Sorrow: Mel opened up about the distance they had forged in the years leading up to his passing on Piers Morgan's Life Stories on Saturday
'I've always felt bad, but I couldn't tell him. Right before, I said to him ''You can go now because I have to go and divorce this monster'' and he just looked at me and took his last breath.'
She explained that her last conversation with her father gave her the strength to leave her estranged husband Stephen Belafonte.
'That gave me the strength, because I'd said it to my dad, so now I have to do it. I just wish he was here.'
Opening up: Mel B pictured with Mel C during their Dublin concert on Friday
Meanwhile, The Spice Girls kicked off their reunion tour on Friday in Dublin's Croke Park before taking to the stage at Cardiff's Principality Stadium in Wales on Monday evening.
Band members Emma Bunton, 43, Geri Horner, 46, Mel Brown, 43, will also be taking Sunderland, Edinburgh and Bristol before arriving to London's Wembley Stadium.
While some fans have congratulated the band mates for their star-studded performances others have been left far from pleased after the shows were marred by audio issues in the stadium.
Addressing the complaints in an Instagram video on Friday at 6am, Mel B admitted that the band had experienced sound issues and said the problems would be improved for the upcoming shows.
New chapter: Mel B pictured in Dublin on Friday with her Spice Girls bandmates as they kick off their highly-anticipated stadium reunion tour
