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“I do not want to reconcile with my family,” Brooklyn Peltz Beckham has said in a statement addressing his strained relationship with his parents.
Peltz Beckham, the eldest child of Sir David Beckham and Lady Victoria Beckham, accused his parents of “trying endlessly to ruin” his relationship with Nicola Peltz Beckham, both before and after their wedding in 2022.
“My wife has been consistently disrespected by my family, no matter how hard we’ve tried to come together as one,” he wrote on Instagram on Monday.
Speculation had been circulating for months about a feud within the family. The BBC has reached out to Sir David’s and Lady Beckham’s representatives for comment.
The pair have never acknowledged the rift.
“I have been silent for years and made every effort to keep these matters private,” the 26-year-old wrote in a series of posts to his 16 million followers.
“Unfortunately, my parents and their team have continued to go to the press, leaving me with no choice but to speak for myself and tell the truth about only some of the lies that have been printed.”
He said he had been subject to “endless attacks from my parents, both privately and publicly, that were sent to the press on their orders”.
Going into detail about his wedding, he accused his fashion-designer mother of having “cancelled making Nicola’s dress in the eleventh hour despite how excited she was to wear her design, forcing her to urgently find a new dress”.
Reports emerged at the time that Nicola, 31, had refused to wear one of Lady Beckham’s designs.
The American actress later told the Times that her mother-in-law had realised her atelier could not finish it in time, denying claims of a feud.