Girls Aloud have secret reunion + Cheryl writes a chapter for Sarah's book

[diocharl]

‘Sarah's been on my brain every waking hour,' says Cheryl Cole as they reveal what happened at a secret Girls Aloud reunion after Sarah Hardings's cancer diagnosis.https://t.co/XQUXccSNVb
- British GLAMOUR (@GlamourMagUK) March 15, 2021
Sarah Harding has revealed that Girls Aloud had a secret reunion this summer, marking the first time all the girls

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[somebellend]

I had no idea this was happening to Sarah. I always had a soft spot for her, she was made fun of so much for "partying hard" (AKA having a fucking problem, maybe some empathy would help, but you do you, tabloids) and this is just ... crushing.

Girls Aloud were my early to late teens all the way and they're still my favourite girl band. Gutted I lost touch enough to miss this.

ilu Sarah :*

[ahkna]

It was really clear on CBB how very much her drinking and partying came from deep-seated issues. I just want to take care of her.

[somebellend]

Agreed. Girl was struggling hard and all people cared about was laughing at her "antics".

UK tabloids are next-level when it comes to cruelty in general, imo.

There's more difficult cases for me like Kerry Katona (who put her children at risk and unlike in Britney's case seemed to give few shits) and Caroline Flack (who preyed on a 17-y/o at 32 - don't anyone come for me with that "16 is legal!" shit - and was a domestic abuser), but despite their many genuinely despicable acts were targeted not so much for those things as the fact that they were women. People just used their actions to justify bile spewed about their looks + rape and death threats.

[ahkna]

I actually do feel a lot for Kerry and Caroline, even with their messiness, because both have/had such severe mental health issues which I think adds a whole extra level of cruelty onto tabloid celebrity.

Obvs that doesn't excuse dating a kid, but from what I've read (and I don't purport to be an expert on it so don't call me out) the domestic violence it seems to have been a mental health episode. What she needed was counselling and maybe even medication, for there to be room for her victim to get justice and for her to get better. The tabloids really latched onto the salaciousness of the whole incident with such glee. They really do encourage people to bring out the worst in themselves. When the subject of any ire is a woman, there is just always MORE - more misogyny, more hatred.

[cityofships]

Caroline absolutely needed to be held accountable for the injuries she inflicted, and you're also very correct that she also needed treatment and empathy.

If she hadn't been villified so aggressively by the public and press, she might have felt able to face the consequences for her actions in court and receive the help she needed. The whole situation was just so depressing.