Brooklyn Beckham levelled a series of explosive accusations at his parents David and Victoria earlier this week, including that they had “been trying endlessly to ruin my relationship”
The feud between Brooklyn Beckham and his parents over his marriage to actress Nicola Peltz has ignited headlines over the past few days. In a bombshell statement earlier this week David and Victoria’s eldest child took aim at his parents, accusing them of ‘lies’ and ‘controlling behaviour’.
Brooklyn’s accusations included a number of explosive claims about how his parents had behaved at his wedding in April 2022, including that his mother had “hijacked” his first dance with his wife, before dancing “very inappropriately” in front of guests. “I’ve never felt more uncomfortable or humiliated in my entire life,” he said.
The 26-year-old also claimed his mother had agreed to make Nicole’s wedding dress, before cancelling “at the eleventh hour”, and his parents had pressured him into signing away the rights to his name. “My parents have been trying endlessly to ruin my relationship since before my wedding, and it hasn’t stopped,” he said.
Now, inspired by the ongoing drama, people on Reddit have been sharing their own nightmare wedding stories. One user posted a thread to the social media site saying: “Sure there’s wild stories out there to rival the Beckhams!”
Sure enough, there were plenty of incredible tales of nuptials gone awry, with most of them centering around the behaviour of parents of the bride and groom. One said: “Mother sat in the entrance to the hotel loudly crying and screaming whilst guests arrived about how she’s losing her daughter.”
They continued: “Then spent the whole day glaring at me, she didn’t smile ONCE, and was angrily staring in every single photo we have with her in it. Oh and she stormed off crying in the middle of dinner and got angry when nobody ran after her.”
They added: “I knew she would make the day about her somehow.”
Another wrote: “Father of the bride’s speech started with ‘I’ve never actually liked John (groom), and I don’t think this wedding is going to last a year, but I paid for all of this, so I get to have my say’.”
Someone else said: “Not my wedding, but my best mate. Her mum decided on the day she wasn’t coming. No excuse, just ‘didn’t feel like it’. Her only daughter.
“As MOH (Maid of Honour), I was given permission to give her an earful down the phone, as this wasn’t the first time she’d pulled a stunt like this. Decided she did want to come, I told her if she comes within 50 feet of the wedding, I would legally be allowed to rugby tackle her to the ground.”
They added: “The wedding was beautiful and the couple had the most fantastic day celebrating with the people who truly loved them.”
On the other hand, another user said their own wedding had gone like clockwork, thanks in no small part to some careful planning on dealing with “the family narcissists”.
“Sister-in-law is a histrionic baby and needs to make everything about her,” they said. “We allocated a patient and good-humoured usher to occasionally walk past her and ask her to tell him more about what she was currently wittering on about. That worked a treat – she was the centre of her little world and didn’t bother anyone else.”
They added they had asked their best man to sit next to their mother-in-law, who “sees it as her duty to aggressively criticise everything”. “She got all the madness off her chest and was satisfied that someone had acknowledged how correct she was about everything,” they said.
