FILE - David Beckham, from left, Victoria Beckham, Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz appear at the premiere of the Netflix docuseries "Beckham" in London on Oct. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Vianney Le Caer, File)
FILE - Brooklyn Beckham, left, and Nicola Peltz attend the Victoria Beckham Spring/Summer 2025 collection presented in Paris on Sept. 27, 2024. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - Romeo Beckham, from left, Cruz Beckham, Harper Beckham, David Beckham, Victoria Beckham, Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz Beckham appear at the premiere of the Netflix docuseries "Beckham" in London on Oct. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Vianney Le Caer, File)
Former soccer player David Beckham leaves after a podcast during of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
FILE - Brooklyn Beckham appears at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
FILE - David Beckham, from left, Victoria Beckham, Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz appear at the premiere of the Netflix docuseries "Beckham" in London on Oct. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Vianney Le Caer, File)
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FILE - Brooklyn Beckham, left, and Nicola Peltz attend the Victoria Beckham Spring/Summer 2025 collection presented in Paris on Sept. 27, 2024. (Photo by Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP, File)
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FILE - Romeo Beckham, from left, Cruz Beckham, Harper Beckham, David Beckham, Victoria Beckham, Brooklyn Beckham and Nicola Peltz Beckham appear at the premiere of the Netflix docuseries "Beckham" in London on Oct. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Vianney Le Caer, File)
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Former soccer player David Beckham leaves after a podcast during of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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FILE - Brooklyn Beckham appears at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute benefit gala in New York on May 6, 2024. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Beckham family falling-out has spilled further into public view in a series of social media posts from Brooklyn Beckham alleging that his parents David and Victoria Beckham have tried to sabotage his marriage and have always prioritized public branding over their family relationships.
“For my entire life, my parents have controlled narratives in the press about our family. The performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships have been a fixture of the life I was born into,” wrote in several pages of text posted via Instagram stories.
At 26, he's the eldest of the four children of the retired English soccer superstar and former Spice Girl-turned-fashion designer and has worked as a model and photographer, even aspiring to be a chef. He married American actor Nicola Peltz, daughter of in 2022.
“Recently, I have seen with my own eyes the lengths that they’ll go through to place countless lies in the media, mostly at the expense of innocent people, to preserve their own facade. But I believe the truth always comes out,” the posts said.
The posts make public a barely veiled feud that had been brewing in anonymously sourced stories in tabloids for months. Younger brother Cruz Beckham said on Instagram in December that Brooklyn had blocked family members on social media.
“I do not want to reconcile with my family.” Brooklyn Beckham wrote. “I’m not being controlled, I’m standing up for myself for the first time in my life.”
Unlike his three younger siblings, Brooklyn Beckham did not appear in and did not show up at the October premiere.
Many of the grievances described in the Instagram stories stem from the Peltz-Beckham wedding in Florida. He accused his mother of bailing at the last minute on designing Peltz's wedding dress, and said she “hijacked” the first dance he was supposed to have with his wife to music performed by Marc Anthony.
“She danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone,” Brooklyn Beckham wrote. “I’ve never felt more uncomfortable or humiliated in my entire life.”
Without giving specifics he also wrote that before the wedding his parents “repeatedly pressured and attempted to bribe me into signing away the rights to my name.”
David and Victoria Beckham did not have an immediate public response to the posts, and messages to representatives from The Associated Press were not immediately answered.
In a Tuesday appearance on CNBC, David Beckham, who is at the did not directly address his son's statements, but said that children make mistakes on social media, and should be allowed to.
“That’s what I try to teach my kids. But you know, you have to sometimes let them make those mistakes as well,” he said.
Married since 1999, David and Victoria Beckham have three other children, 23-year-old Romeo, 20-year-old Cruz and 14-year-old Harper.
