As the Beckham family feud ramps up with a public statement and shocking allegations, an unearthed interview with Victoria Beckham reveals her heartbreaking hopes for her now estranged son
Brooklyn Beckham has ruled out any hopes of a reconciliation with his A-list mum and dad following months of rumours of a serious family fall-out. The 26-year-old broke his silence on Monday to accuse Victoria and David of “controlling” him for his entire life and attempting to “endlessly ruin his relationship” with his wife Nicola Peltz-Beckham.
While the former Spice Girl and England footballing ace have remained publicly silent on his bombshell statement, an unearthed interview from April 1999 – the month after Brooklyn was born – reveals just far off track things have gone for the family.
Then known as Victoria Adams, the pop singer and her footballer beau were living in a penthouse apartment in a 100-year-old block in rural Sussex, and were new parents to four-week-old Brooklyn, who was described at the time as “Britain’s most famous baby”.
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In the exclusive interview and photoshoot with OK! magazine, they opened up about the hopes and dreams for their precious newborn – who Victoria insisted was “not a money-spinner” – and said they felt “so complete” as a family of three.
“It’s just amazing how much you can love another person,” Victoria said. “And I feel really protective of him. When I was in hospital I didn’t see all the people that were outside… I was just in there in my own little world, with Brooklyn, and it was lovely.”
In his lengthy statement this week, aspiring chef Brooklyn accused his parents of leaking information about the family and said he’d been left with “no choice” but to “speak for himself and tell the truth”. “For my entire life, my parents have controlled narratives in the press about our family,” he wrote. “The performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships have been a fixture of the life I was born into.”
The topic of selling photographs of her children also came up in her historic OK! interview, with Victoria revealing: “I obviously did see a lot of newspaper cuttings and there were people saying that I was selling pictures of him and I was doing this and I was doing that. That was just people being cynical.
“The one thing I said, right from the start, which is why Brooklyn isn’t in the pictures that we’ve done today, is that he’s the one thing that is totally private for us. He’s not a money-spinner. People were saying ‘they left the hospital with their little asset’, and that really hurt a lot.”
Victoria, who turned 25 in April 1999, insisted she didn’t want to raise a “spoilt little boy”, and stressed the importance of her and David staying “level-headed”. “A lot of people have said ‘Oh Brooklyn’s going to be a very spoilt little boy’,” she revealed.
“But I hate nasty children. I like well-behaved, polite children, and you don’t have to have money to have those. The only way he’s going to be spoilt is with love. Obviously he’s going to realise that his life is going to be different but he will be a polite little boy!”
The topic of so-called pushy parents was also addressed, and David said he planned to copy the approach taken by his own parents, Sandra and Ted, when it came to Brooklyn making big life decisions, adding that he and Victoria were “the most important things in his life”.
“My mum and dad have always helped me and given me all the advice that I needed, but in the end they said, ‘What do you want to do?’, and they left the big decisions up to me,” he said. “Whether it was the move up to Manchester or whether to stay in London and play for Tottenham or Arsenal. It was never ‘We support Man Utd, so you’re going up there’. I think that’s important because if you’re pushed into something you tend to go the other way.”
Victoria also said she wanted to encourage their firstborn “to be sensitive, to show his feelings”, adding, “I think it’s very important that he feels he can come to us if he’s got a problem. But I’m going to be strict with him because I do like well-behaved children.”
David, who was playing for Manchester United at the time, also proudly shared that he had secured a signed Ronaldo football shirt for Brooklyn, and it was ready to be hung up in his nursery. “Before the game I said to Victoria, wouldn’t it be really cool if I got Ronaldo’s shirt signed for Brooklyn?’,” he recalled.
“But he went off before the end of the game and I thought, ‘Oh I’ve got no chance of getting it now’…So with five minutes to go, I started playing right back so that I was really near their bench and after the whistle blew, I went straight up to him and just asked if I could change. He came up to me after the game and we swapped and we got it signed for Brooklyn. I’m really pleased with it. It’s something nice to keep.”
The couple got married a few months after their OK! interview, saying their I Dos at LLuttrellstown Castle in Dublin, Ireland on July 4, 1999. Four-month-old Brooklyn acted as ring bearer and adoringly wore an all-white suit to match his dad’s.
Source: Mirror
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