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Can’t help feeling sorry for Victoria Beckham

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anddeepbreathandsigh · 20/03/2026 15:02

I’m not interested in VB at all for fame etc but even at a distance I can’t help but feel sorry for her as a mother having comments thrown about by her estranged son and his wife. Latest is the DiL saying her parents see the Beckham lad as like their son. That must be so hurtful. I can’t imagine being in that situation. The connection with your child is so deep and she seems no different in that respect so it must be awful. I hope there is a way to mend it long term.

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JacknDiane · 21/03/2026 07:15

estrogone · 21/03/2026 00:10

Until you have walked a mile in somebody's shoes don't assume your lived experience is the same as everybody else's.

I am estranged from my family. I feel no need to tell you why, but can assure you there is a good reason. More importantly I can tell you that not having contact with your parents and siblings is a painful last resort - not helped by people trotting out the "you only have one Mum/Dad/Sister" bollocks.

Absolutely agree. When its easier for your mental health to keep away, you know its right.

caringcarer · 21/03/2026 07:20

It must be very hard being completely estranged from your fistborn. Especially when he publicly posts such hurtful comments about his parents. I'm sure David and Victoria must be hurting. The other 3 DC seem happy with their parents.

Pedallleur · 21/03/2026 07:41

Not been in the press lately has she? Cruz has been out with his band prob stealing the publicity from her. Surprised she didn't turn up onstage to sing. Don't worry, given enough time/publicity the family will reunite for a Netflix special

snowymarbles · 21/03/2026 08:16

Tiddlywinks63 · 21/03/2026 06:08

Precisely.
I’ve just read The House of Beckham by Tom Bowers and it’s hardly surprising that they’re an incredibly disfunctional family.
The behaviour of V and D is beyond my comprehension.

Me too. Think I saw it mentioned earlier in this thread. Don’t know how accurate it is but if true doesn’t sound like a great upbringing.

JacknDiane · 21/03/2026 08:34

But what did they do?

Mistyglade · 21/03/2026 08:38

NeelyOHara · 21/03/2026 06:20

Who deliberately tries to ruin their own child’s wedding? Victoria Beckham, that’s who.
They simply won’t leave him alone, he’s asked them many times to respect his boundaries but they simply ignore him. They are deliberately goading him at this point, using the press and his siblings to do so on social media as he has blocked them.
They are insane.

Edited

Wow ok, some strong confident accusations there. How do you know she deliberately tried to ruin her own child’s wedding? Deliberately goading?

Evidence other than BBs Peltzy instagram post please.

DBSFstupid · 21/03/2026 09:05

twentyeightfishinthepond · 20/03/2026 15:10

Yes and the Beckhams are all over their PR. Go away. We don’t care.

How rude.
You weren't asked to read the thread were you?
Go away yourself.

NeelyOHara · 21/03/2026 09:38

Mistyglade · 21/03/2026 08:38

Wow ok, some strong confident accusations there. How do you know she deliberately tried to ruin her own child’s wedding? Deliberately goading?

Evidence other than BBs Peltzy instagram post please.

Well, according to Brooklyn she rang him up the night before his wedding and called him ‘evil’, her and David spent the weeks leading up to the wedding demanding he hand over the rights to his name, - both personally and through the Beckhams lawyers. Then when Marc Anthony (her and David’s bestie) announced in a room full of wedding guests that the ‘most beautiful woman in the room’ would be getting up on stage she did not go up and say, ‘Oh don’t be so silly, come up here Nicola’ she stood there and made a horrified Brooklyn dance with her, and the bride ran off in tears.

The wedding DJ Fat Tony said it was horrible, because “who wants to see a young bride and groom crying on their wedding day?”

Anyway, you only have to look at the relentless articles in the mail from ‘sources’, who all, amazingly have slants of ‘evil Nicola’ and ‘poor, sad amazingly kind mother Victoria’ to know who’s behind them.

They’ve constantly proved Brooklyn right since this started, the weirdly staged, inauthentic, meticulously curated lives and photo shoots are utterly bizarre.

DisappearingGirl · 21/03/2026 09:42

I feel sorry for her too OP. That doesn't mean I think Brooklyn is wrong - we simply don't know all the people and relationships involved.

But I do feel sorry for her.

Mistyglade · 21/03/2026 10:41

NeelyOHara · 21/03/2026 09:38

Well, according to Brooklyn she rang him up the night before his wedding and called him ‘evil’, her and David spent the weeks leading up to the wedding demanding he hand over the rights to his name, - both personally and through the Beckhams lawyers. Then when Marc Anthony (her and David’s bestie) announced in a room full of wedding guests that the ‘most beautiful woman in the room’ would be getting up on stage she did not go up and say, ‘Oh don’t be so silly, come up here Nicola’ she stood there and made a horrified Brooklyn dance with her, and the bride ran off in tears.

The wedding DJ Fat Tony said it was horrible, because “who wants to see a young bride and groom crying on their wedding day?”

Anyway, you only have to look at the relentless articles in the mail from ‘sources’, who all, amazingly have slants of ‘evil Nicola’ and ‘poor, sad amazingly kind mother Victoria’ to know who’s behind them.

They’ve constantly proved Brooklyn right since this started, the weirdly staged, inauthentic, meticulously curated lives and photo shoots are utterly bizarre.

Crikey that’s a LOT of mud to sling at your own mother. Whoever is telling the truth perhaps we’ll never know. I know NP has serious form, her ex, the Hadid lad is clear about her desperation for fame at any expense and says her claim to want privacy is tosh. I’m not sure the billionaire family are as pure as the driven snow either when it comes to spinning PR. I think NP will without doubt bore of her totally lacking in charisma lump of a husband and then where does that leave him? I still can’t help feeling very sorry for VB. the very thought of my son tearing me apart to the world like that is too awful to even consider. He didn’t seem to have a problem before he met the Peltzs.

Ohdearanotherone · 21/03/2026 17:47

I agree with you. She must be devastated.

twentyeightfishinthepond · 21/03/2026 18:43

DBSFstupid · 21/03/2026 09:05

How rude.
You weren't asked to read the thread were you?
Go away yourself.

@DBSFstupidI hadn’t realised that you were representing them 😀

Bunny65 · 21/03/2026 19:29

Overtheatlantic · 20/03/2026 15:05

You do realise that the DM makes up stories to sell more rags?

The story came from an interview Nicola gave to a magazine. The DM can slant things but they can't just pluck a story from thin air whatever people think.

Sometimessmiling · 21/03/2026 19:31

anddeepbreathandsigh · 20/03/2026 15:12

Really? There isn’t any amount of therapy that could compensate for not having a relationship with my child. I just can’t imagine how awful it must be.

Her relationship with her kids is off. They are part of Brand Beckham first and foremost
I think her and David and their image conscious wY of life has had and is having detrimental mental health issues. All that pouting and posing is such a false life.

lavendarwillow · 21/03/2026 19:43

The sheer vanity of the woman is nothing to be celebrated.

DBSFstupid · 21/03/2026 20:19

twentyeightfishinthepond · 21/03/2026 18:43

@DBSFstupidI hadn’t realised that you were representing them 😀

Rude.

Calliopespa · 21/03/2026 20:21

anddeepbreathandsigh · 20/03/2026 15:12

Really? There isn’t any amount of therapy that could compensate for not having a relationship with my child. I just can’t imagine how awful it must be.

Oh well, maybe best we don't all gossip about it online? That might ease the "awfulness" somewhat.

Viviennemary · 21/03/2026 20:21

fnb · 20/03/2026 19:31

As if money makes up for being estranged from your eldest child.

Shes only got herself and her own actions to blame. Anything for a dollar as the saying goes. No sympathy at all.

MaggieBsBoat · 21/03/2026 20:22

A connection with a child is really not so deep OP, not just because you gave birth to it. Seriously it isn’t.
If someone thought I had a deep connection with my mother because I was once in her uterus I’d be really pissed off.
It‘s a relationship the same as any other. I have five kids, would do anything for them, but they don’t owe me their fealty.

jdb9803 · 21/03/2026 20:38

But was fully supportive of the Ramsey Peaty wedding

Shotokan101 · 21/03/2026 20:39

anddeepbreathandsigh · 20/03/2026 15:02

I’m not interested in VB at all for fame etc but even at a distance I can’t help but feel sorry for her as a mother having comments thrown about by her estranged son and his wife. Latest is the DiL saying her parents see the Beckham lad as like their son. That must be so hurtful. I can’t imagine being in that situation. The connection with your child is so deep and she seems no different in that respect so it must be awful. I hope there is a way to mend it long term.

Pure clickbait post for sure......

ThankYouNigel · 21/03/2026 20:40

YANBU- VB is a mother like many of us and a human being. As a mother myself, yeah, I’d be gutted to be in her current situation, regardless of exactly what has gone on. Truly gutted.

Grendel7 · 21/03/2026 20:53

anddeepbreathandsigh · 20/03/2026 15:02

I’m not interested in VB at all for fame etc but even at a distance I can’t help but feel sorry for her as a mother having comments thrown about by her estranged son and his wife. Latest is the DiL saying her parents see the Beckham lad as like their son. That must be so hurtful. I can’t imagine being in that situation. The connection with your child is so deep and she seems no different in that respect so it must be awful. I hope there is a way to mend it long term.

I should think anyone is more like normal parents than the Beckhams. One brain cell between them and she is a pouting lettuce leaf. It must be so refreshing for him to meet normal people.

Grendel7 · 21/03/2026 20:58

Overtheatlantic · 20/03/2026 15:05

You do realise that the DM makes up stories to sell more rags?

These days the Beckhams are only famous for being famous. More money than anyone here could shake a stick at. Who cares if she's unhappy. Never had to do a days work!

YelramBob · 21/03/2026 21:33

She's pimped her kids out for years, don't feel an ounce of sympathy for her.