They are one of the most glamorous power couples on the planet. Victoria and David Beckham, married since 1999 and parents of 4 children, have come a long way together. From the United Kingdom, to Los Angeles, via Madrid, the Beckham couple have never divorced, despite the nasty rumors which for a time tainted their love story. In question, an alleged affair of the footballer with Rebecca Loos, his assistant in charge of his public relations…
“But in Spain it was disjointed“
It was in 2003. And 20 years later, when a 4-part documentary on the famous family, “Beckham”released on Netflix this October 4, 2023, Victoria Beckham makes new revelations about this period “The hardest“that she has known.
She assures: “it felt like the world was against us.We were against each other… Until Madrid, we sometimes felt like we were against everyone, but we were together, we were connected“. And to add: “but in Spain it was disjointed“.
During the 4 years that Becks spent at Real, he said he felt like he was “drowning”. As David Beckham speaks with difficulty about the media harassment to which they were victims: “Every time we woke up it felt like there was something else… we both felt at that moment like we weren’t losing ourselves but drowning “. And every morning, it was with this same feeling that he would hit the ball. He remembers “I felt physically sick every day when I opened my eyes, ‘How am I going to do this?'”
And for good reason, separated from his wife and his two sons, Brooklyn and Romeo, when he left Manchester United, it was solo that he arrived in a foreign city, where he did not speak the language, without the his. In the midst of a scandal, a decision was made by Victoria and David to “fight for each other“.”We had to fight for our family“, explain the couple. In the process, the family moved to Madrid and bought a house that Victoria was proud to decorate. Their son, Cruz, arrived on February 20, 2005, offering a new start to the family.
Although Victoria agreed to all these efforts, she remained resentful throughout, she says. And only when they later moved to Los Angeles (David played for LA Galaxy), Victoria Beckham could breathe. She who took a liking to this “place where everything was so much easier” explained about Los Angeles that it was “a great place to live”.
Almost 25 years of marriage
Not as much as Oxfordshire, however, where the family treated themselves to a house. At 48 and 49, the Beckhams have found their balance and will soon celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary. And for the former Spice Girl, it was worth hanging in there as she confesses: “I feel happy now, I feel really happy now“.
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