David Beckham’s bitter fallout with Brooklyn is ‘a sad reminder’ of his five-year feud with his own father who swore to ‘never forgive’ him

With David Beckham’s bitter fallout with his son Brooklyn, it seems history could be repeating itself for the devastated sports star, after he endured his own five-year feud with his father Ted.

Brooklyn launched a blistering attack online about his parents David and Victoria and brothers Romeo and Cruz on Monday. 

While David, 50, and Ted, 77, now share a close-knit relationship, the father-son duo were once not even on speaking terms.

After Ted suffered a near-death health scare in 2007, it sparked the pair to make amends and get back in touch – and they have been close ever since. 

In his statement, Brooklyn made a series of bombshell allegations where he accused his parents of ‘controlling’ him, trying to ruin his marriage, humiliating him and claimed his brothers were being ‘sent to attack him on social media’. 

Now sources are saying that David and Victoria are ‘hoping’ relations with their son will improve as they did with Ted, but it’s currently a ‘sad reminder’ how bad their feud once was.

An insider told The Sun: ‘History may be repeating itself. David Beckham famously fell out with his own father when he was younger, and reconciliation eventually came.

‘I suspect David and Victoria are hoping for the same outcome here, but at the moment, that doesn’t appear to be on the horizon.

‘It’s a sad reminder of how Ted must have felt when David turned on him all those years ago.’

Daily Mail has contacted representatives for David and Victoria Beckham for comment.   

David previously revealed he had to wait ‘over two decades’ before getting any approval from his father over his successful football career.

Chatting to James Corden on his podcast series This Life of Mine in 2024, David admitted his ambitious drive came from the desire to please his father Ted – earning a ‘you’ve made it boy’ only after he won 100 caps.

‘My dad never told me I’d done well really until my hundredth cap. That was the first time my dad turned around to me and said, ‘you’ve made it boy’.

He said he didn’t get the same recognition at any other point in his career despite six Premier League titles, two FA cups, four Community Shields and a Champions League title.

David’s parents divorced in 2002 following 33 years of marriage – with the process slow because the couple had not been able to agree a financial settlement.

The pair were rarely seen together in the years that followed, and it became clear that David had taken his mother’s side during the divorce – often pictured with his mum Sandra at family gatherings and promotional events.

Meanwhile, Ted was left on the sidelines, with David seemingly struggling to forgive him for printing an unauthorised biography on his England captain son without permission.

Ted was said to have been a harsh taskmaster while David was growing up berating him for any tiny footballing mistakes on the training pitch and matches – and this tough love spilt into his marriage.

David admitted as they were growing up, he never saw his father be tender to his mum.

He wrote in his 2001 autobiography: ‘He loves my mum but he’s never been affectionate to her in front of my two sisters and me. He’s quite hard-faced and can be sarcastic.

‘He also gets fired up easily… The quality I like least in myself is my short temper. I think I get it from my dad.’

Ted and David also struggled to bond when the former England captain moved to Real Madrid in 2003 – with Ted admitting the distance meant he feared he’d ‘lost him forever’.

This was compounded by the 2005 publication of his unauthorised biography David Beckham: My Son, which only deepened the rift.

Frosty relations continued when Ted refused David’s offer of tickets to watch him play in the 2006 World Cup.

But relations finally improved in 2007 when Ted suffered a near-fatal heart attack aged 58, where paramedics fought for three hours to save him and he was told he had ‘died’ in the ambulance on the way to the hospital before being rushed into surgery to unblock an artery.

David, who had just transferred to LA Galaxy, flew home from the US immediately and rushed to his dad’s bedside, and it pushed both men to finally put the feud behind them.

David paid off his dad’s mortgage and bought him a Jaguar, and by 2021, old wounds appear to have healed as David was the best man at his father’s wedding to partner Hilary, and he proudly celebrated his son’s birthday last year.

Sources told the Daily Mail that Victoria has been left ‘devastated’ as the gulf that has publicly existed between mother and son widened into a seemingly unbridgeable chasm. 

Overnight, it was reported that Nicola ran out of her own wedding reception in floods of tears as she watched her mother-in-law Lady Victoria ‘grind’ and ‘nuzzle’ Brooklyn on the dancefloor.

in his statement, Brooklyn made a series of bombshell allegations about his 2022 Florida wedding, including claims his mother dramatically intervened in what was meant to be his romantic first dance with Nicola.

An insider told The Sun: ‘Brooklyn was so embarrassed and his wife so humiliated and furious to have been upstaged.

‘She made her feelings very, very clear on the day. It soured the whole evening.’

The insider added of Victoria: ‘There was absolutely no malice there; quite the opposite.’

Meanwhile a different source said David and Victoria are ‘baffled’ by the accusations as on the day, guests were ‘having so much fun’ and were ‘lapping it up’, with no concerns about the mother and son dance raised at the time. 

They said Victoria was just a ‘tad tipsy and having fun’ while ‘Nicola didn’t want him to dance with his mum at all – so kicked off about it’. 

Page Six reported the actress was so upset she left the reception crying after Victoria ‘wrapped her arms around Brooklyn and nuzzled into his neck’. 

A source said: ‘She [Victoria] was dancing with him very inappropriately. She took that moment from Nicola, that is the god’s truth.

‘Nicola ran out crying. The Beckhams’ side of the room was cheering and the Peltz side was quiet.

‘Nicola’s friends were saying “You have to go back down”. Her face was swollen. She finally came down and was sad the entire evening, it was so heartbreaking.’

Another source claimed Brooklyn spent the weekend ‘agonising’ over what to say in the six-page statement, after telling his wife ‘f*** it, this ends now’. 

The insider told The Mirror: ‘He thought the abuse towards his wife would never stop until he said something in his own words. He was sick of the lies, and there was no changing his mind….and nor did anyone want to. He was fixated on ending the b******t which he claims his mum and dad are behind.’ 

The Beckham family feud has been simmering for years, both behind closed doors and in public, with each side desperately battling to protect their version of events and their reputations.

In his lengthy Instagram post, Brooklyn claimed his family had ‘controlled narratives’ and perpetuated ‘countless lies’ to ‘preserve their own façade’ – with ‘Brand Beckham’ always the priority.

But the chef said tensions reached breaking point when Victoria, who first rose to fame as Posh Spice and now owns a hugely successful fashion and beauty empire, ‘cancelled’ Nicola’s wedding dress at the eleventh hour, despite how excited his wife had been to wear her design. 

However, some fans have already questioned the accuracy of Brooklyn’s claims surrounding the dress, pointing to the fact that Nicola wore an elaborate Valentino Haute Couture gown that reportedly took years to design.

In a Vogue article published days after the couple’s April 2022 wedding, Nicola’s stylist Leslie Fremar revealed the dress required ‘years’ worth of conversations with Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli’s team.

Fremar also said the bride made two trips to Rome and attended fittings in the US to ensure every detail was ‘immaculate’ on the big day.