As new details are coming out about Mel B’s divorce from alleged abuser Stephen Belafonte, we’re now learning that her America’s Got Talent co-star Simon Cowell might have influenced the decision to file.

The couple was married for nearly a decade, and according to TMZ sources say that Simon repeatedly called him “bad news” and a “bad guy” before urging her to separate from him.

While the former Spice Girl had tried to separate in the past, sources say she credits Simon for convincing her to pack up for good.

“She’s an incredible person. If you think about what Mel’s done since leaving the Spice Girls and what she’s gone through, how hard she works and how I saw her try to handle this situation, it was astonishing,” Simon recently told The Sun. “She’s under pressure but I think she’s in a good place … she’s had the whole thing she’s had to deal with, the other side of her personal life. It really made me think about her as a person, what she’s achieved as a working mum and how she’s managed to balance everything.”

Another AGT co-star, Sharon Osbourne, recently spoke about the abuse on The Talk, saying:

“Three years ago, in the final two days of ‘X Factor,’ she didn’t make the first day and she was in the hospital. It was reported in all the papers that said ‘allegedly’ she’s been beaten by her husband. And she came back for the final day and she had a black eye and bruising everywhere … This has been brewing and people talking for a very, very long time.”