David Beckham is retaining quiet amid his son Brooklyn Beckham’s explosive assertion accusing the retired soccer star and spouse Victoria of controlling him for a lot of his life.
David, 50, was pictured on the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, January 20, the place he recorded a podcast with psychologist and writer Adam Grant.
The sports activities star prevented questions on his son’s assertion as he walked throughout the room on the annual convention.
Sky Information enterprise correspondent Paul Kelso tried to ask him, “David, do you’ve got a message for Brooklyn this morning?” per video footage revealed by the outlet.
David continued to stroll on by and supplied no solutions as Kelso additional pressed, “David, are you dissatisfied household enterprise is being aired in public?”
The previous Manchester United participant’s look Tuesday comes lower than 24 hours after eldest son Brooklyn, 26, broke his silence on his fractured relationship with David and Victoria, 51.
Rumors of a Beckham household rift first surfaced in Might 2025, although insiders beforehand informed Us Weekly that the disagreement could be traced again to Brooklyn’s April 2022 wedding ceremony to actress Nicola Peltz Beckham.
In a scathing assertion posted by way of his Instagram Story on Monday, January 19, Brooklyn mentioned, “I don’t need to reconcile with my household. I’m not being managed, I’m standing up for myself for the primary time in my life.”
Brooklyn alleged that “my dad and mom and their crew have continued to go to the press” with tales about him and his spouse, “leaving me with no alternative however to talk for myself and inform the reality about solely a few of the lies which were printed.”
David Beckham leaves after a podcast throughout of the Annual Assembly of the World Financial Discussion board in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. AP Picture/Markus Schreiber
In his assertion, Brooklyn accused his dad and mom of crafting a curated picture of their well-known household within the press, which he described as misleading. (Together with Brooklyn, David and Victoria share sons Romeo, 23, and Cruz, 20, and daughter Harper, 14.)
“The performative social media posts, household occasions and inauthentic relationships have been a fixture of the life I used to be born into,” he wrote. “Lately, I’ve seen with my very own eyes the lengths that they’ll undergo to position numerous lies within the media, principally on the expense of harmless individuals, to protect their very own facade. However I consider the reality at all times comes out.”
Brooklyn claimed that his dad and mom “have been attempting endlessly to smash my relationship since earlier than my wedding ceremony, and it hasn’t stopped,” alleging that designer Victoria “cancelled making Nicola’s [wedding] costume within the eleventh hour” earlier than their nuptials.
David Beckham and Victoria Beckham tied the knot in 1999, began rising their household that very same yr and have been documenting their parenting journey ever since. Thank You! You’ve gotten efficiently subscribed. Subscribe to newsletters Please enter a legitimate e mail. Subscribe By signing up, I conform to the Phrases and Privateness Coverage and to obtain […]
Elsewhere in his assertion, Brooklyn claimed that his dad and mom “pressured” him into “signing away the rights to my identify” and that Victoria referred to as him “evil” for seating his paternal grandmother and Nicola’s grandmother on the prime desk at their wedding ceremony.
David Beckham, Victoria Beckham and Brooklyn Beckham. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Photographs
“Each of our dad and mom had their very own tables equally adjoining to ours,” Brooklyn wrote, including, “The night time earlier than our wedding ceremony, members of my household informed me that Nicola was ‘not blood’ and ‘not household.’”
Brooklyn additional alleged that Victoria “hijacked my first dance with my spouse, which had been deliberate weeks upfront to a romantic love music.”
“In entrance of our 500 wedding ceremony friends, [singer] Marc Anthony referred to as me to the stage, the place within the schedule [it] was deliberate to be my romantic dance with my spouse, however as an alternative my mum was ready to bop with me as an alternative,” he mentioned. “She danced very inappropriately on me in entrance of everybody. I’ve by no means felt extra uncomfortable or humiliated in my whole life. We wished to resume our vows so we might create new reminiscences of our wedding ceremony day that convey us pleasure and happiness, not nervousness and embarrassment.”
Brooklyn Peltz Beckham and spouse Nicola Peltz Beckham’s wedding ceremony allegedly triggered friction along with his mom, Victoria Beckham. Brooklyn, 26, and Nicola, 30, obtained married in April 2022 with a star-studded ceremony and reception held in Palm Seashore, Florida, capped off with a efficiency from Marc Anthony. (The Latin Grammy winner, 56, is a longtime pal […]
Brooklyn mentioned that “the narrative that my spouse controls me is totally backwards. I’ve been managed by my dad and mom for many of my life. I grew up with overwhelming nervousness. For the primary time in my life, since stepping away from my household, that nervousness has disappeared. I get up each morning grateful for the life I selected, and have discovered peace and reduction.”
Us Weekly reached out to representatives for each David and Victoria Beckham for touch upon Monday. Neither has publicly commented on their son’s claims.
