Mel B has revealed  that she experimented sexually with women over the course of several years – but  now dismisses it as little more than a phase.

The former Spice  Girl, 39, has been linked to a number of women since rising to fame in the  1990s, but she says that she’s now more than satisfied with her husband of seven  years, Stephen Belafonte.

Making an  appearance on TV’s Alan’s Carr: Chatty Man, she spoke with the host about  heterosexual women who had become lesbians, admitting: ‘Yeah. I was one of those  for a few years.’

(Clinch: in February, Mel was photographed enjoying an affectionate moment with a  female pal on a yacht on Australia’s Sydney Harbour as they partied with her  husband Stephen Belafonte)

Pressed by Alan Carr on whether she was a  lesbian, Mel added: ‘I would not call it that. I was just one of those ladies.  Now I’m happily married.’

And while she may  no longer hold any lingering physical feelings for her fellow females, she did  speak affectionately about fellow X Factor judge Cheryl  Fernandez-Versini.

The  mother-of-three cooed: ‘She is such a lovely girl, and man has she been through  a lot, a lot – and it’s all been on public display.

(Changes: Mel said she has since moved on and is happily married to husband  Stephen Belanfonte)