"Stressed out" Spice Girl Victoria Beckham bowed to doctor's orders by canceling a series of television appearances in Germany and hiring a private jet to fly home to Britain, reported the Mirror.
The British tabloid quoted a friend of the singer as saying she had suffered a severe migraine headache while filming at a studio in Cologne, said FOX online.
The health scare came on the same day as Posh Spice and her husband, England football star David Beckham, dropped a legal bid to block a new book based on personal details revealed by former bodyguard Mark Niblett.
"She is under such stress. As well as the legal action, she has had endless promotions to do and it has all taken its toll on her," the unidentified friend told the Mirror.
"As for Niblett, she feels sick and betrayed by what the man has done to her."
The paper said a doctor was called to the studio twice. The singer had followed his advice to cancel her German appearances and fly home by Lear jet, it added.
"Posh and Becks,” the insider's look at the celebrity couple penned by Andrew Morton, author of a bestseller on the late Princess Diana, will hit bookstores in October.
After first seeking a total ban, the couple, who have their own book coming out in the autumn, sought to have 2,500 words excised from the final 60,000-word draft of Morton's book.
Wednesday, after two days of negotiations, the Beckhams' lawyer said they had settled the matter with Michael O'Mara Books. Details were not disclosed.
O'Mara hailed the outcome as a "complete victory" and said several hundred "relatively trivial" words had been trimmed.
The publisher said his side argued the Beckhams often disclosed their private lives to the media and that the book about them was in the public interest.
Niblett, 40, who stopped working for the Manchester United player and the singer in May, was not involved in the case-Albawaba.com.
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