Christianity Today, on how Salt — of Salt-N-Pepa — left the group and found Jesus. Now they are reconciling (but not getting back together). Kind of a cool story.

In the throes of depression, she struggled to explain her decision to leave. “I was so focused on me that I felt I had no room to think of them,” she said. The group officially disbanded in 2002, leaving Denton and Roper angrily holding the shreds of a once-promising career.

“I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God,” James said. On her knees and praying for help, she felt she received an answer from God: “I want all of you.”

“That meant to me that I needed to shut down a lot of things and focus on God because that was where my healing was. I needed to take a beat for myself,” James said.

Immersing herself in a church, she sought healing for her underlying wounds. She worked on forgiving her father, whom she describes as a great man weighed down by alcohol. She reconciled with Gavin Wray, her daughter’s father, and the couple married, had a son, and settled in New York.