Perrie Edwards says Jesy Nelson's actions made her 'blood boil' during Little Mix split
Warning: This article contains discussion of suicide which some readers may find distressing.
Perrie Edwards is opening up about her fallout with former Little Mix bandmate Jesy Nelson who she claimed took ‘no accountability’ for her actions.
The 32-year-old singer was asked about Nelson’s final months in their group in a new interview.
Nelson, 34, announced her departure in December 2020 after nine years with the band. The ‘Boyz’ singer shared that she found the ‘constant pressure of being in a girl group and living up to expectations very hard’.
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Edwards, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, and Jade Thirlwall continued as a trio, released more singles and a greatest hits album and completed the Confetti Tour before announcing a hiatus to pursue solo projects.
In her recent documentary Life After Little Mix, which aired in February, Nelson said she had not seen her former bandmate in almost five years but didn’t rule out a reunion.
Edwards was asked about Nelson while speaking to Jamie Laing on his Great Company podcast. She said: "What annoys me is the most, and again I have to be careful how I say this as I don't want to seem like a b**** but for me what upsets me the most is when situations like this happen and the other person doesn't take any accountability, that boils my blood!
"I am not blaming everything on you, I am not saying that she's this f****** monster and everything was her thought blah, blah, blah but take some accountability for your actions and realise you were difficult, you did have difficult moments."
She added: "Granted there were reasons for those moments but you can only pick someone up so many f****** times before you start losing track of your own sanity."
When the ‘Forget About Us’ singer was asked about possibly reconciling with Nelson, she said: “If I’m being completely transparent, part of me wanted to until the documentary. And then part of me withdrew again.
“I’m not a horrible person. I haven’t got a bad one in my body, but I can cut you off.
“There’s personal things, there’s public things, there’s everything. I don’t have the capacity for somebody like that in my life anymore. And that might make me sound like a bitch, but I just don’t have the energy for it.
“And as much as I will always love her, I don’t think I can hack that energy in my space.”
In her documentary, Nelson said she attempted to take her own life before leaving the band.
She said: “I sat everyone down to explain how I was feeling and I remember one of the responses being, ‘Are you done now? Is that it?’
“She [one of the girls] was like, ‘Can I go now?’”
Jesy added: “That made me feel really alone. I felt like there was no point. That no one cared.”
In the same chat with the Made in Chelsea star, Edwards shared her heartbreak over learning of Nelson’s twins diagnosis. Her daughters Story and Ocean have been diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy Type 1.
“I mean, when I think everything we’ve been through as a group, and even though it ended in ways that I wouldn’t have wanted it to, and we’re not that close anymore and we’re not in each other’s lives, I still feel everything that the girls feel and I think they’re the same.
“We’ll always have that weird connection. And seeing Jesy go through that, it broke me.
“Because you wouldn’t wish that on anyone. It’s literally wild. And as much as we’ve got our issues and, you know, I think I don’t want to see her go through that.”
Topics: Jesy Nelson, Little Mix, Celebrity
Greg Harris