David Beckham's Response

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The family feud has had a number of dedicated threads already, this is not a repeat.

I want to focus on DB's today's response, available here: https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/20/children-make-mistakes-david-beckham-brooklyn-post

"Children make mistakes" - I find it incredibly offensive and gaslighting. His son is a 26 year old adult man. A husband. He isn't talking about a 5 year old in Reception here.

I think his PR advised him to put children into his response to seemingly soften it, but I think he's very undermining to Brooklyn and this language smacks of being controlling.

AIBU?

I agree. My perspective on a lot of things developed tremendously in my 30s, especially the ability to see that life is full of shades or grey and few things are black and white.

I have no idea if his claims hold water or not, and I'm not investigating it to form an opinion that will be uninformed anyway, since I don't know the people involved at all. I do believe he is speaking his truth as he sees it though. Mental health crisis, maybe. If so, I hope his parents will be understanding and help find him support, if he wants that. If not, then maybe some processing will help his parents acknowledge that he's right about some things at minimum, and apologise genuinely. Whatever the truth, there are people hurting and I hope they can all find a peaceful way forward, whatever that looks like for them.

Whatever the truth, there are people hurting and I hope they can all find a peaceful way forward, whatever that looks like for them.

This is the best comment on this topic I have seen.

I’m not the target audience, can’t stand them ( met a couple of spice girls at the time who I didn’t like and hated man united so had no desire to know anything about them), I don’t read mags or follow celebs, very rarely picked up a newspaper back then, but even I remember this at the time as it was everywhere it was hard to avoid even though it happened pre social media.

I agree BB is speaking the truth as he 'sees' it but that's not necessarily factual particularly since he admitted to suffering from severe anxiety.

Given there are contrary reports on the wedding dress, 'first dance' & 'branding' it makes sense not to 'take sides', accept his statements as gospel nor gloat over a family in a lot of pain.

Another one here who isn't target audience - was never even remotely interested in Spice Girls or DB - but do remember seeing Brooklyn's little face in Hello mags etc, and feeling vaguely protective for him even then. He was definitely photographed and not all candid by any means. Also remember photos of him on his Dad's shoulders at matches. They were obviously so incredibly proud of him, it's just sad to think about where things are at now. But no parent can see the future, and I guess they had a lot of weird pressures on them as they took decisions.

I don't know why, but when I have seen/known people as a baby or small child, I find it much harder to condemn them.

Ffs who’s interested in the incompetent, inneffectual Brooklyn? He’d be nothing without his father’s name.
Brooklyn is a useless waste of space.

David should consider….” This too will be over”

It’s certainly factual that his parents didn’t protect his privacy from the moment he was born, parading him for the cameras and talking publicly about him - even where he was conceived ffs. That’s undeniable and ‘brand Beckham’ is at the root of this

Agreed and not going to go away anytime soon as Beckhams Senior be deploying the same machine in their ‘defence’. Rather than do so directly or themselves no doubt countless sources will now seek to discredit BPB and his statement… going to get a whole lot messier. Brand comes before all else.

I am curious why the "brand" is clearly so important to them. Their net worth is now estimated at approx 500 million pounds. They have more than enough money for the rest of their lives. Why are they so obsessed with the brand- do they want more and more money (greed) or is it simply ego?

Something tells men BB wasn't aware of that. But I take your point that he was probably psychologically affected by his high profile parents. Does that make them controlling? I haven't seen any hard evidence to suggest they are more so than the average parent.

Disagree. He seems a grounded, inoffensive young man. More like the PR machine he complained of being deployed in full force to discredit him. V&D won’t address directly but will encourage sources and their press pals to do so. BPB would have known this. The parents should let it be.

There's no evidence to verify his claims yet & in fact there seems to be contrary reports so the jury is still out.

Guven their net worth, I don’t get why DB still does ads like the one for the draught bear at home (so good I can’t remember the name!). Is it greed or does he just like having his face on the tv?

Whatever has happened has clearly caused BB and np alot if pain and anguish

They are a newly married couple .that's not nice.

If an independent third party in charge of the video of said dance says ‘he’s telling the truth’ vs sources (unnamed) close to V saying she’s devastated, and was just a ‘tad tipsy’ I’d tend to believe the neutral, named person…

I feel he is probably living off his wife which she will probably get tired of at some point. I could be wrong but I don't see where he makes any significant money.

Unless he's also a person friend, I wouldn't put too much stock in that quote. We don't even know if it's real. I would think that the company charged with taking the video would be bound by NDA's for this family, and professional privacy requirements for any client. So one of them allegedly speaking out I'll take with a grain of salt.

However, if BB says he felt uncomfortable, then I would be more inclined to believe that. People tend to know how they feel reliably.

Probably the question he was posed? Which was about social media use in children, as it’s all over the news about policy change. This was nothing to do with his adult child’s social media posts.

Exactly! of course its entirely his choice to do it and its easy money but with a worth of nearly a billion - why?

Poor guy he doesn’t need this kind of stuff too from posters on SM

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However, if BB says he felt uncomfortable, then I would be more inclined to believe that. People tend to know how they feel reliably.
This 100%, whether the dance was a bit off or not, BB says it ruined his wedding day and that's enough for me. So many threads on here where MILs behave inappropriately and the advice is always go NC. He felt uncomfortable because of her behaviour and embarrassed in front of his bride and her family.

And other people have claimed it was not the 'first dance' & there was a father daughter' dance that preceded it.

I’d go with the bride and groom knowing when the main scheduled first/special dance was!?

David Beckham was clearly answering questions about one of the issues he was asked about which is why he was there. No reason he shouldn’t do that just because of what was going on in his family.

It does sound like BB had been controlled at least in terms of brand and public image etc, and he’s now able to speak up for himself. He doesn’t need his family’s wealth anymore as he’s married into an extremely wealthy family. No doubt that is a factor.