David Beckham has revealed that he was so terrified of his first-born child being kidnapped that he was too scared to sleep next to baby Brooklyn and his wife Victoria.
In a new Netflix documentary, released today, the legendary footballer and Posh Spice give an insight into their lives, featuring archive footage from their early days together to interviews with the likes of Garry Neville and Mel C.
The four-part series explores Posh Spice and David’s fairy-tale romance as their careers plummeted into fame, but it wasn’t all glitz and glamour.
At one point, the four-part series takes a look back at how Becks was left ‘clinically depressed’ after the backlash that ensued when he was given the red card for kicking Diego Simeone before England lost to Argentina.
The incident just so happened to be moments after Posh told him that she was pregnant with their first child.
He says: ‘What I went through was so extreme. The whole country hated me. Hated me. It changed my life. I felt very vulnerable and alone. Wherever I went I got abuse every single day.
‘People look at you in a certain way, spit at you, abuse you, come up to your face and say some of the things that they said. That was difficult.’
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He was so terrified in fact, that he couldn’t even sleep the night after Brooklyn was born, and would stay awake to protect his family from any threats.
He explains: ‘That night, Brooklyn slept next to Victoria, Victoria was like, come and squeeze on the bed with me, and I said, absolutely not.
‘I’m sleeping with my head against the door because I was paranoid someone was going to steal him.
‘It’s meant to be a happy moment, and it was of course, but I was worried.
‘I didn’t want him to come into this life at a time where I was going through what I was going through.’
David’s particular request after Brooklyn’s birth left Victoria pretty unimpressed
That’s not the only memory they have from the night Brooklyn was born.
Elsewhere in the docuseries, David recalls how Victoria wasn’t too impressed when she, ‘numb from the waist down’ after giving birth, was asked to fix his hair so he could go announce their newborn to the paps.
‘Someone came up to us and said David you should go out and announce the baby has been born,’ he recalls.
She adds: ‘I’d had an epidural, and I remember him leaning over as I was lying there in hospital, numb from the waist down.’
He continues: ‘And I was like, can you do my hair? Which I’m not sure she was over the moon about.’
We don’t blame her!
David knew he was going to marry Victoria – before they’d even met
Within the first few minutes of the docuseries, it’s clear that David had his sights on Victoria from the first time he met her, before they’d even met.
Recalling when he first laid eyes on her, Gary begins by recalling how he and David had been watching TV when the Spice Girls came on.
‘I turned around to Gary and went, see that one, I’m going to marry that one, and we’re laughing and joking, and I’m like no, I’m going to marry that one. The posh one in the black dress.’
Gary adds: ‘I suppose most blokes have done that in their lives, looked at the television and gone, I like her, but you don’t f**king end up with them.’
Remembering when he first saw her in real life, before a match which saw Liverpool fan Mel C in the stands supporting the opposing team with Posh, David said: ‘In the changing room before the game, one of the players came in and said there’s two Spice Girls there, and I said, what ones, and he said, the sporty one and the posh one, and i was like, great…. so I then played the game.’
Victoria thinks of herself as working class – but Becks is here to call her out
In one of the most candid moments in the series, Becks is on hand to call Victoria out after she brands herself ‘working class’.
‘I just fancied him, it was as simple as that. I think because we both come from families that work really hard – our parents worked really hard and we’re very working class,’ she tells the camera.
‘Be honest,’ he interrupts. ‘Be honest, what car did your dad drive you to school in?’
Not wanting to directly answer, she tries: ‘It’s not a simple answer’, before admitting: ‘In the eighties my dad had a Rolls Royce.’
‘Thank you,’ David grins.
They shared a ‘seedy’ first kiss
Keeping their relationship under wraps and away from the paps meant they had to share some ‘seedy’ intimate moments at first.
After Victoria gave her phone number to David on the back of an aeroplane ticket, thinking she then must have flown in to watch his match, the pair remember how fast their relationship moved.
‘There was something there that was straight away, this is it, and it’s going to move fast,’ he says.
She then adds: ‘We would meet in car parks and that’s not as seedy as it sounds.’
In a separate confessional, David confirms: ‘The first kiss that I ever had with Victoria was in the BMW, in a car park. Classy!’
Posh has no regrets over their iconic purple wedding suits
While David questions what the pair were thinking wearing their iconic wedding suits, it’s clear Posh has no regrets.
‘I think I just took Victoria’s lead on it,’ he excuses, adding: ‘What were we thinking?’
Meanwhile she explains: ‘It was fun… we weren’t worried about what people were going to say.’
As for the thrones though, she admitted having no idea where they came from.
According to the synopsis of the documentary: ‘David Beckham is one of the most known names on the planet, yet few people know who he really is.
‘From his humble working-class beginnings in east London, his drive and determination to win, and the battle to find balance between ambition, love and family, David’s story is one of immense ups and downs.
‘The series takes you on that rollercoaster and builds a surprising, personal and definitive story of one of the most recognisable and scrutinised athletes of all time.’
Beckham launches on Netflix on October 4.
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