Brooklyn Beckham sends parents legal letter

[Downunderduchess]

I saw in the media that Brooklyn Beckham has had a legal letter sent to his parents requesting that they stop trying to make contact with him. I didn’t realise the talk of him falling out with them was real, thought it was just gossip. I think I was a bit shocked by it. Of course I don’t know them but they always seemed like a lovely close family.

Brooklyn was only 23 when he got married & had led a very sheltered life. The Peltz dynasty prob looked for someone they could mould.

My brother went no contact with our family after he met an unhinged woman who would accuse him of all sorts including sleeping with his sisters and mother! She'd also tell him that we were all sending her hate mail that she'd burn so he could never see it.
We were never anything but kind and welcoming to her.
He married her after 3 weeks because the religion she practised wouldn't allow her to 'date'. He then pretty much disappeared. It wasn't until she started locking him in rooms for days at a time and then threatening she'd tell the police he raped her if he told anyone, that he started wising up.
The straw that broke the camel's back was when I texted him that I had a miscarriage and that I really would love to talk to him (we had always been very close). She said that it was God's will that I had miscarried because I was a bad person and didn't want him to speak to me.
He had converted to her faith and went to the advisors of said faith with her at which point even they kept encouraging him to leave her. He finally managed to extricate himself from the situation and of course we were all there with open arms to receive him.
No matter how loving the family, coercive control from a partner can lead to a breakdown. I've experienced it first hand.

Sad isn't it? I wonder what's behind it all......? 🤔

BB's problems began very early on when D & V happily and loudly announced to the world that he was going to be called Brooklyn because that's where he was conceived. TMI.

I agree. I used to follow his Insta and it just felt like he was bumbling around "being famous" - but that was it, there was no substance to it at all. The thing is, both of his parents are famous for actually DOING something, and they have earned their money. In this day and age, where people get paid for social media, these children really can make a living just from the people who are curious about what the child of A and B celebs is doing these days. I imagine it messes with your head. I can't even imagine what his childhood must have been like.

Before I deleted Instagram I remember seeing one of Brooklyn saying I've just got 1m followers, and David pops up behind him and says I've just got 5m.

It was a joke but I imagine it's probably the sort of thing that is the issue. You're a kid, David's has had years more time than him.

I agree with you, this is how I see it too.

I went NC with my DM and SF 11 years ago. But I would never go NC or block my younger brother. The fact that BB has blocked his siblings too, speaks against him IMO. He will regret this one day.

It’s interesting Nelson P & wife apparently from earliest years pushed all kids to sport. Non negotiable to prevent ‘trouble’ as they saw it. Strict upbringing.

I remember seeing a book everywhere not long afterwards ‘Being Brooklyn Beckham’ when he was a baby!

I think the narrative that he was pushed into the spotlight and wants a quiet life falls a little flat when you see he has 16 million followers on Instagram and regularly shares his life on social media. No one knows what goes on behind closed doors or what the truth actually is but to cut off your entire family, including 3 siblings, just does not sit right. I’ve never been a big fan of the Beckhams but they are close to their parents and extended family- sisters, cousins, nieces, nephews etc all regularly together so that makes me think that if they are all close then the issue must lie with Brooklyn. I also lost a lot of respect for him when he posted a gushing post about her dead nan who he had never even met but failed to acknowledge his grandparents birthdays. They must’ve had a huge role to play in bringing him up and he’s completely washed his hands of them as well

A man thrust into the public eye from birth, for no reason other than the identities of his parents; who had his every move documented by the press; who had no obvious talent in his own right, but was still expecting to be famous; who had a very public wedding to a high profile bride, followed not long afterwards by much-documented family estrangement…

Yeah, it’s a mystery why people are drawing parallels.

Apparently now in touch with Grands?

All this does look to point to manipulation. The timing also interesting. Why now?

The answer to that could easily be that he’s the only one that doesn’t need their cash. He simply no longer has to play their game.

That's her dad's money. He may not see much or anytthing.

Sadly I think if they do divorce he’ll be welcomed back with open arms now he has escaped the clutches of his ‘evil wife ‘ and she’ll be demonised for breaking up their family for a period. In reality their fractured relationship may well be absolutely nothing to do with his wife but I doubt that will matter . (Speaking as a divorced woman with dreadful ex in-laws 🤣)

One big difference between BB and PH is that, if the reports of the contents of these legal letter are accurate, BB is actively asking for details of any estrangement to be kept private; to NOT be tagged in Instagram stories and the like, and for any attempts at reconciliation to be private. Meanwhile Harry and Meghan, despite pleading for privacy, share every tiny detail in interviews and tell-all books with inflammatory titles.

I can’t say I’m a fan of Brooklyn Beckham - I don’t really know what there is to be a fan of. But he can’t have had anything approaching a normal life. He was famous before he knew what fame was. He grew up to discover anything he did was of interest, even if it was average (or below). He never knew a life where column inches, and later clicks, weren’t the priority.

Yes, he could have trained for an everyday career. But where was his incentive? You have to be a VERY grounded 16 year-old to be told that, instead of taking photos for a hobby, you can shoot a Burberry campaign instead, and have your own book a year later, and not have your head turned. How many teenagers would have had the self-awareness to say “No thanks - I want to do it all on merit”?

None of us really know enough about the circumstances of the estrangement to make a judgement. But I don’t think it’s as black and white as an ungrateful rich kid biting the hand that feeds how he’s found a bigger dish.

It’s interesting that Rocco Richie seems to have fared much better. A contemporary & some parallels.

@PinkPanther57i hope he is in contact with them, it would be terribly sad if he had cut them off as well. But I can’t help thinking about his siblings, especially Harper. She’s only 14. I can’t imagine a world in which I would cut off my baby sister.

I know the beckhams were still regularly including him when they posted about the other kids, even on David’s 50th he posted photos with all of his children so I’m not surprised with the legal letter. He clearly wants to cut them out of his life completely.

As someone else said, if he had turned his back on that world if we are to believe he hates the game and the whole brand Beckham thing, got a normal job and settled down with a local girl it would’ve made sense but he’s married into an even more famous, wealthier family. Does he honestly think he’d be married to Peltz if he was Brooklyn the builder from Sawbo? I think not. This is exactly why people are drawing comparisons to Prince Harry. He left the royal family for Hollywood. Go off grid and live the quiet life you supposedly want.

Agreed. 'Brand Beckham' gives me the heeby jeebies. Plus Victoria used to drape herself around Brooklyn in a very peculiar way. I anyways thought that there was something rotten in the state of Denmark.

Never mentioned in The Times. Who is he?

It wasn't that he took umbrage with her liking his chicken video, but that her publicly doing so triggered a pile-on in the comments section with people telling him to contact his parents and slagging off his wife. As copious MN threads about NC have shown, if you've asked your family to leave you alone and they keep breaching your boundaries, the next step is to tell them to back the fuck off in no uncertain terms. In Brooklyn's case, his parents' flying monkeys amount to hundreds of thousands of IG users so a lawyer's letter to V and D saying leave me alone isn't extreme.

Such a weird story!

Why isn’t his insta private? Why does his chicken require a global reach?

Pleased for you, but the dynamics aren't always so simple for others. Some things just cannot be undone, especially if there is a shaky foundation to begin with.

I read V&B were liking B’s posts but totally ignoring all of N’s posts, so I guess they were sending a passive aggressive public message that neither B nor N were happy with, leading to the unfollowing and getting in the lawyers ?