Victoria Beckham reveals how time of David's alleged affair with Rebecca Loos was 'most unhappy I have ever been'
Victoria describes the aftermath of the alleged infidelity while David was playing for Real Madrid in 2003 as the "hardest period" of her marriage to the former football star in a new Netflix documentary series called Beckham which launches today.
Wednesday 4 October 2023 13:19, UK
Victoria Beckham has spoken for the first time about her husband David's alleged affair with his former personal assistant Rebecca Loos, saying: "It was the most unhappy I have ever been in my entire life."
She describes the aftermath of the claims as the "hardest period" of her marriage to the former football star in a new Netflix documentary series which launches today.
In the four-part series, titled Beckham, the Spice Girl-turned-designer opens up about the alleged infidelity which is said to have happened in 2003 while he was playing for Real Madrid.
The couple, who married in 1999 and have four children, have always denied the claims.
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According to The Sun, in extracts of the documentary shared with the paper, Victoria tells of how the allegations impacted their relationship.
'It was a nightmare'
"It was the hardest period because it felt like the world was against us," she says.
"Here's the thing - we were against each other if I'm being completely honest.
"You know, up until Madrid sometimes it felt like us against everybody else but we were together, we were connected, we had each other.
"But when we were in Spain, it didn't really feel like we had each other either.
"And that's sad. I can't even begin to tell you how hard it was and how it affected me. It was a nightmare.
"It was an absolute circus - and everyone loves it when the circus comes to town, right? Unless you're in it."
When the 49-year-old is asked if she "resented" her husband, she replies: "If I'm being totally honest, yes I did. It was the most unhappy I have ever been in my entire life."
The woman the former England captain and Manchester United star was accused of having an affair with is not named in the documentary, according to the newspaper.
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David, 48, also addresses the allegations, saying: "There was some horrible stories which were difficult to deal with.
"It was the first time that me and Victoria had been put under that kind of pressure in our marriage."
When asked how the couple survived that period, David became emotional, saying: "I don't know."
"I don't know how we got through it in all honesty, Victoria is everything to me, to see her hurt was incredibly difficult but we're fighters and at that time we needed to fight for each other, we needed to fight for our family and what we had was worth fighting for. But ultimately it's our private life.
"There were some days I would wake up and I would think how am I going to go to work, how am I going to walk on to that training pitch, how am I going to look as if nothing is wrong... I felt physically sick every day when I opened my eyes.
"How am I going to do this?"
Speaking about the effect on son Brooklyn, now 24, David said: "He had to go through that and I don't know whether it's harmed him and I don't know... I don't know."
The pair were joined by their children at the documentary's premiere in central London on Tuesday night.
They posed for pictures alongside their children - Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper - as well as Romeo's girlfriend Mia Regan and Brooklyn's wife Nicola Peltz.