Yet cases got particularly 22 years ago when Rebecca Bathrooms, a outmoded member of his management crew, alleged she had an affair with the athlete. He adamantly denied it, nonetheless Rebecca has maintained that she was telling it because it was.

And David restful isn't certain how he and Victoria managed to earn previous that fraught duration.

“I don't know how we got thru it, in all honesty,” David acknowledged in the 2023 docuseries Beckham, about his avenue from footballer to man of many corporations. “Victoria's every part to me. To stare her wound was incredibly stressful. But, we're fighters. And on the 2d, we wanted to wrestle for each and every assorted, we wanted to wrestle for our household. And what we had was rate combating for.”'

Sitting down with Sky One's Kay Burley in April 2004, Rebecca acknowledged she didn't “seek files from of any sympathy” from Victoria.

“I reflect it's rotten ample for me to enact what I if reality be told devour accomplished without me looking at for any words of sympathy,” she persevered. “I if truth be told hope that they earn thru it. I reflect the complications had been in their marriage long sooner than I got here into the image. I in no plan supposed to interrupt up their marriage especially when there are younger formative years concerned. I am hoping they preserve together.”

Which they did, and Victoria was visibly pregnant as soon as more by August 2004.

The next month she and David geared as much as sue News of the World over a myth titled “Posh and Becks on the Rocks.”

“We are sick and bored with folks attempting to kind cash on the expense of our household,” the Beckhams acknowledged in an announcement. “It's noteworthy extra distressing when we’re looking at for our third son. These allegations are fully fake and it is in the hands of our attorneys.”

Cruz was born Feb. 20, 2005, in Madrid.

The couple then amended the complaint to include one other NOTW myth alleging, essentially essentially essentially based on tales from a outmoded nanny, that their marriage was a sham. They moreover sued the nanny, who had labored for them since 2003, for breach of self assurance.

“Whenever you happen to invite any individual into your net page to note after your formative years—your most treasured possessions—that prospects are you’ll moreover merely desire to believe them,” David acknowledged in April 2005. “I will't tell noteworthy extra because there is a correct course of…What I will tell, though, is that the motive I preserve my tips on soccer is that me and my wife are cheerful. We have to now not fresh folks, though folks might perchance maybe moreover merely now not reflect that. Obviously, we now devour arguments love everyone, nonetheless, on the live of the day, I do know that I if truth be told love my wife.”

The Beckhams mute an undisclosed settlement from News of the World in March 2006 and dropped their swimsuit. (The tabloid shut down in 2011 after it grew to become out a entire lot of staffers had conspired to hack into non-public voicemail accounts, along with these belonging to celebrities equivalent to Hugh Grant, individuals of the royal household and a teenage assassinate victim.)

Rebecca informed 60 Minutes Australia in March 2025, reflecting on the scandal, “I if reality be told devour caught to the reality, I’ve by no plan exaggerated. I by no plan lied a couple of single component. Why? Ensuing from I’m going up against the strongest, most considerable couple in the media. And all I had on my aspect was the reality.”

The Beckhams, in the period in-between, took advantage of David's properly-timed provide from the Los Angeles Galaxy rate a reported $250 million and moved to America.

“Any other peril has arrive up and it is the wonderful time for us to enact it,” the properly-known midfielder—who would hump on to salvage the La Liga title with Exact Madrid in his closing season with the club—acknowledged in a January 2007 interview, calling his determination to uproot his household “extraordinarily stressful.”

The household's SoCal space condominium was a 13,000-square-foot villa bought for a reported $22 million because, as Victoria informed W, “we didn't desire one thing else too spacious, too admire, too ostentatious.”

“It's a lightweight, cheerful residence, with a immense corridor the formative years are going to love when they are roller-skating,” she added, whereas David joked that they wouldn't devour any live-in workers because “we settle on to lock the doorways at night time and slide around naked.”

Victoria acknowledged that the scandal she and David had easiest now not too long ago grew to become the page on made for “a truly tough time” for them, “laborious for our entire households. But I realized a variety of oldsters devour their designate.”

But she and David “got thru it together,” Victoria persevered. “No one acknowledged marriage was going to be easy. Certain, there had been bumps along the avenue. However the reality is we've arrive out of every part we've been thru stronger and happier. It's even higher now than when we had been first married. In spite of every part these years, we are able to merely arrive residence and devour fun together.”

She started working initiating her eponymous trend line and David thrived with the Galaxy, winning two titles and providing a key encourage in striking Essential League Soccer on the design.

While Victoria she quipped to E! in 2007 that having three boys was extra about “crowd regulate” than parenting, daughter Harper Seven was born July 10, 2011.

And the household easiest got extra smartly-known, though David shrugged off the significance of title mark recognition.