Jesy Nelson emerged from The x factor in 2011 and later joined the girl group Little Mix.
Although she formed a sisterly bond with her bandmates, Jesy Nelson has confessed that they were not in contact with each other after she abruptly left the band following a secret suicide attempt in 2020.
The singer, 34, who recently split from fiancé Zion Foster, revealed her painful decision to leave the group and her final interaction with remaining band members Perrie Edwards, Leigh-Anne Pinnock and Jade Thirlwall in her raw and honest Amazon Prime docuseries. Jesy Nelson: Life after Little Mix.
Before I had an argument with the girls, I had to think about where I am legally, can I get out of this now?’ she remembered.
“Unfortunately, the lawyer ended up letting them know that I wanted to leave, before I could tell them, so I think they were very hurt by that, and it never should have been that way.
“I’m angry that they took that away from me and I didn’t get a chance to explain why I couldn’t do this anymore.”
She added: “Mentally, I prepared myself and thought, ‘Okay, I want to sit down with the girls now and I want to chat to them and tell them why I did what I did and how I’ve been feeling, and really explain to them and try to make them understand how I feel.’
“And then my manager called me and said, ‘I’ve talked to the girls and they’re happy to chat with you, but they don’t feel comfortable being in a room with you unless there’s a therapist there.’
‘I was like, ‘What? I just left the hospital, this is the time I need you most.’ I didn’t feel like they were my sisters. It’s been five years now; Every time I think about it I think, ‘Was it them or was it management?’ I’ll never know because we never had that conversation.
And finally there was a phone call and it was really awkward. It was very strange because it was like talking to strangers.
“It was the most awkward phone call I’ve ever had, no one knew what to say and that was the last time I spoke to them as a group.”
Despite the forced parting, Nelson, a mother of two, says parenthood (both Edwards and Pinnock also welcomed children) helped bring them back together as friends.
