What followed was a remarkable refutation of the Beckham family narrative—one that inverted years of tabloid shorthand. Brooklyn alleged that the much-discussed wedding dress controversy had been misunderstood: that Victoria Beckham had initially offered to design Nicola’s gown, only to cancel late in the process, despite Nicola’s enthusiasm about wearing it. And, he confirmed the rumor of Victoria “hijack[ing] my first dance with my wife,” serenaded by Marc Anthony. “She danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone,” recalls Beckham, saying “I never felt more humiliated in my life.”
According to Brooklyn, an even deeper rupture stemmed from a dispute over branding—specifically, his refusal to “sign the rights away” to his own name. According to Brooklyn’s posts, that decision impacted a larger family business arrangement, and with it, how he was treated thereafter. “My holdout affected the payday,” he wrote, later stating plainly that “Brand Beckham comes first.”
“My family values public promotion and endorsements above all else,” he writes. “Family ‘love’ is decided by how much you post on social media.” Yet, even after attending “every fashion show, every party,and every press activity to show our perfect family,” Brooklyn alleges that “the one time my wife asked for my mum’s support to save displaced dogs during the LA fires, my mum refused.”
Cruz Beckham, Harper Beckham, David Beckham, Victoria Beckham, Romeo Beckham, Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz in 2023
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There were other details, more intimate and unsettling. He claimed that women from his past were repeatedly invited into family gatherings in ways that made both him and Nicola uncomfortable. He said his parents had refused to see them, while privately and publicly feeding stories to the press—sometimes, he alleged, enlisting his own siblings to attack him on social media.
Perhaps most striking was Brooklyn’s rejection of the dominant narrative about Nicola’s influence. “The narrative that my wife controls me is completely backwards,” he wrote. “I’ve been controlled by my parents for my entire life.”
Representatives for Brooklyn Beckham and Victoria Beckham did not immediately respond to Vanity Fair. This is a developing story.
