Little Mix star Jade Thirlwall reveals her most embarrassing on-stage moment

Jade Thirlwall has revealed she once suffered an accident minutes before going on-stage as she battled tummy troubles during the band’s tour.

The Little Mix star, 27, spoke with Spice Girl Mel C and drag queen Courtney Act for the latest episode of her MTV YouTube series, where she confessed to ‘literally s*****g herself.’

Jade gave a detailed account of the accident, that occurred minutes before she and her bandmates were due to perform, and admitted it was made all the worse given she was wearing fishnets.

Jade revealed: ‘My worst ever stage experience, for me, was on Little Mix’s Glory Days tour. I was a bit unwell at the time, I had, like, a poorly belly.

‘And basically, before the show starts, we were in, you know the man-lifts? Where it rises up, and it’s like a big dramatic entrance?

‘As I was [crouching down] in the man-lift, I looked at my security guard, and I was like “I really need to do a little fart’.”

She continued: ‘So I did it. I did a little fart. And then I literally s**t myself.’ 

Mel burst out laughing while Courtney joked: ‘That’s why it pays to be tucked, Jade. If you’d been tucked, your bum h*le would have been taped over.’

The Little Mix singer went on: ‘I was in a fishnet. Picture that. I probably shouldn’t have mentioned that publicly, to be honest. But there you have it.’

To her off-screen flatmate, Jade seemed to regret her confession as she whispered: ‘I’ve just told a Spice Girl that I s**t myself.’

Before recalling the very awkward moment, Jade had asked Mel for her ‘most embarrassing onstage experience.’   

Sporty Spice revealed: ‘We did a show in Miami, and in the first song, my trousers split right up the back.

‘I had a g-string on under them, but my cheeks were there for the world to see. So I had to just run off.’ 

It comes after Jade admitted that she ‘subconsciously’ avoided talking about her race when she found fame on the X Factor.

The singer said she feared discussing her mixed-race heritage would make her less popular, after being bullied in school because of the colour of her skin.

Jade’s maternal grandfather is from Yemen and her maternal grandmother if from Egypt, while her father is white.

The star said that she didn’t to feel ‘proud’ of herself growing up but added that she feels like her shame was down to a lack of education surrounding race.  

Discussing the topic on the No Country For Young Women podcast, she said: ‘I think because I was bullied quite badly in school because of the colour of my skin and for being Arab I wasn’t very proud of who I was.

Jade, who is from from South Shields in Tyne and Wear, said: ‘I think when I then entered the group I subconsciously didn’t want to talk about my heritage or what my background was in fear of not being as popular…

‘Which sounds awful to say but I was only 18 years old and through years of being ashamed of who I was I found it quite hard to talk about it.

‘I think it was through a lack of education as well. Even now I am constantly learning what the right things are to say and I would hate to talk about my race and my heritage and not say the right things.’