Brooklyn posted on Instagram: “I have remained silent for years and have made every effort to keep these matters private. Unfortunately my parents and their team have continued to go to the press, leaving me with no choice but to speak up for myself and tell the truth about some of the lies that have been printed.
“I don’t want to reconcile with my family. I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time in my life. All my life, my parents have controlled the stories in the press about our family.
“Exploitative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships have been the bedrock of my life. Recently, I have seen with my own eyes the lengths to which they will go to spread countless lies in the media, mostly at the expense of innocent people, just to save their facade. But I believe the truth always comes out.
“My parents have been constantly trying to ruin my relationship since before my wedding, and it hasn’t stopped. My mother canceled making Nicola’s dress at the last hour, despite how excited she was to wear her design, forcing her to urgently find a new dress.
“A few weeks before our big day, my parents repeatedly pressured and attempted to bribe me into signing over the rights to my name, which would have affected me, my wife, and our future children. They were adamant on signing over before my wedding date because that was when the terms of the deal would be initiated.
“My stay affected payday, and they never treated me the same way since. During wedding planning, my mother went so far as to call me “nasty” because Nicola and I decided to include my paternal grandmother Sandra and Nicola’s paternal grandmother at our table, since both of them did not have their husbands. Both of our parents had their own tables adjacent to the same table as ours.
“The night before our wedding, members of my family told me that Nicola was ‘not blood’ and ‘not family.’ Ever since I started standing up for myself with my family, I have received endless attacks in private and in public from my parents, who were sent to the press on their orders.
“Even my brothers were sent to attack me on social media before they finally blocked me anywhere last summer.
“My mother hijacked my first dance with my wife, which was planned several weeks earlier to a romantic love song. In front of 500 guests at our wedding, Marc Anthony called me up on the stage, where the schedule had planned for me to have a romantic dance with my wife, but instead my mother was waiting to dance with me. He danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone.
“I have never felt so uncomfortable or humiliated in my entire life. We wanted to renew our vows so we could create new memories of our wedding day that would bring us joy and happiness, not worry and embarrassment.
“My wife has been consistently disrespected by my family, no matter how hard we have tried to get together. My mother has repeatedly invited women from my past into our lives in a way that was clearly intended to make both of us uncomfortable.
“Despite this, we still went to London for my father’s birthday and were rejected because we waited in his hotel room for a week to make plans to spend quality time with him. He rejected all our attempts, unless it was his big birthday party with hundreds of guests and cameras on every corner.
“When he finally agreed to meet me, it was on the condition that Nicola was not invited. It was a slap in the face. Later, when my family moved to LA, he refused to see me at all.
“My family attaches the highest importance to public promotion and support. Brand Beckham comes first. Family “love” is determined by how much you post on social media, or how quickly you drop everything to pose for a family photo session, even if it is at the expense of our professional obligations.
“We have gone out of our way to show off and support “our perfect family” at every fashion show, every party, and every press activity over the years! But once my wife asked my mother for support rescuing displaced dogs during the LA fires, my mother refused.
“This story that my wife controls me is completely backwards. I have been controlled by my parents for most of my life. I grew up with enormous anxiety. For the first time in my life, after moving away from my family, that anxiety has disappeared. I wake up every morning grateful for the life I have chosen, and I am at peace and relieved.
“My wife and I do not want a life built on image, press or manipulation. We all want peace, privacy and happiness for ourselves and our future family.”
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