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Geri Halliwell left the Spice Girls so she could concentrate on her breast cancer campaigns, she has told the BBC. In her first British TV interview since the split, she told chat show host Michael Parkinson the Spice Girls' tight schedule would have prevented her from doing an interview on the issue, so she walked out on the spot. Ms Halliwell had a lump removed from her chest at the age of 18 and has become a prominent campaigner since she left the group in May. "The day I left the Spice Girls I wasn't planning to leave, it made me check out my own principles," she told Parkinson. "I was meant to be doing the National Lottery show and the schedule wouldn't permit me to do a breast cancer interview and I thought, 'Hold on a minute, what are your principles?' "So I had to question myself. That is the reason I left on that day - there was never a good day to leave." She added she was always planning to leave the group anyway - and had told Melanie Brown, Melanie Chisholm, Victoria Adams and Emma Bunton four months earlier she was planning to quit in September 1998. Halliwell added the split was still "quite tender in my heart" and her relationship with the others was "like a marriage". She said: I fell in love completely, passionately, I needed it." But she added: "Like one in three marriages, under the pressure of work schedules the marriage broke up, it imploded." Halliwell added the decision to go was "nothing to do with any of the girls really". She also spoke of her stint as a topless model before she was successful - which came back to haunt her at the height of her fame. "To be honest it was boring. I found it very, very dull in the end. Standing there with the window open to keep your nipples firm was not good," she said. Since leaving the Spice Girls Geri has signed a solo deal with EMI, and has already written lyrics for her songs. She said: "It's totally schizophrenic with mood swings so that every woman in Britain will identify with it." Transcript (c) BBC |