SPICE Girl Melanie Brown had painful electric brain therapy to try to deal with terrifying suicidal thoughts that were plaguing her life.

In an exclusive interview, Mel, 48, has revealed she secretly flew to a Balearic island at the end of last year and had the gruelling brain treatment nearly every day for six weeks.

The star says the electro cranial magnetic therapy “renewed, rewired and shocked” the neurons in her brain that had been battered after ten years in a physically, emotionally and financially abusive marriage with Stephen Belafonte.

Mel told The Sun on Sunday: “The machine would bang and brrr as magnetic waves shot into my head. It was intrusive.”

She describes how the shape of her head was measured so that the machine could treat certain specific points of the brain that deal with “trauma, emotions and depression”.

A grey cap was then placed on her head before the painful therapy began.

She describes how it brought her to “floods of tears” and she had to deal with terrifying flashbacks.

It was a last resort after already trying hypnotherapy and EMDR, which involves moving the eyes a specific way to process trauma, as well as tapping therapy where the patient works on acupressure points to resolve anxiety.

Mel says: “I know it sounds extreme but I had tried other therapies.

“Talking therapy brought everything up again and I didn’t want to say the things that had happened to me, even to a professional.

“So I did this to guinea-pig myself. I want to make sure that I can honestly say to another survivor, ‘If you can’t do the talking therapy because you are scared, try this’.

“So I wanted to try it. Now I can honestly say it worked for me - and I am going to have another treatment.”

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