Victoria Beckham on the ‘Hardest Period’ in Her Marriage to David: ‘The Most Unhappy I’ve Ever Been’

David and Victoria Beckham are pulling back the curtain on their relationship.

The ex-footballer, 48, and the fashion designer, 49, opened up about the early stages of their romance and marriage in a new Netflix documentary Beckham. While the four-part series focuses on David’s rise to stardom as an athlete, in the latest episode, the pair also deal with the difficult period they had at the height of his success in 2003.

Reflecting on the period in their relationship when David was playing for Real Madrid in Spain in 2003, Victoria spoke candidly during the episode, saying it was the “unhappiest of her life” and adding that the tabloid media’s involvement in their marriage during their stay in the European country it was “the most difficult period for us”.

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“It seemed like the world was against us,” she said in an emotional part of the documentary. “And here’s the thing – we were against each other, to be completely honest.”

“You know, up until Madrid it sometimes seemed like we were against everyone else, but we were together, we were connected, we had each other,” she explained. “When we were in Spain, it didn’t really seem like we had each other. And that’s sad,” she added. – I can’t even tell you how hard it was and how it affected me.

“It was a nightmare. From the moment we opened the door in the morning, the journalists were there in their cars and wherever we went, they would follow us,” she continued. “It was an absolute circus – it’s really fun when a circus comes to town, isn’t it? Unless you’re in it.”

Asked if she resented her husband during that difficult period, Victoria said: “Did I resent David? If I’m going to be completely honest, I did.”

David Beckham and Victoria Beckham.

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“There were some horrible stories that were hard to deal with,” David added about that time. “It was the first time me and Victoria had been under such pressure in our marriage. Every time we woke up we felt there was something else. I think we both felt then that we had, we hadn’t lost each other, but we were drowning. ‘

Honestly, I don’t know how we survived it, said an emotional David about the difficult period in their marriage.

“Victoria is everything to me, it was incredibly hard to see her hurt, but we are fighters and at that time we had to fight for each other and we had to fight for our family and what we had was worth fighting for,” he said. . continued.

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“There were days when I would wake up and think, ‘How am I going to go to work? How am I going to work on that practice field? How am I going to look like everything is fine?’ I felt physically sick every day I opened my eyes. ‘How am I going to do this?'”

The couple married on July 4, 1999, after meeting at a football game in 1997. During their more than 20-year romance, they had four children together – daughter Harper, 12, and sons Cruz, 18, Romeo, 21, and Brooklyn , 24.

Mia Regan, Romeo Beckham, Cruz Beckham, Harper Beckham, David Beckham, Victoria Beckham, Brooklyn Peltz Beckham and Nicola Peltz Beckham attend the UK premiere of ‘Beckham’ on Netflix.

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After they renewed their vows in 2017, David commented on the ups and downs of their marriage in an interview with BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs.

“We know each other better than anyone. People were talking about, ‘Are we staying together because it’s a brand?’ Of course not. We stay together because we love each other, because we have four excellent children,” he said. “Are you going through hard times? Of course. It’s part of the relationship. That’s part of marriage. It’s part of having children. That’s part of the responsibility.”

In July, Victoria opened up about the longevity of their romance in an Instagram post to mark their 24th wedding anniversary. Alongside cute pictures of the two of them together, she wrote: “Still holding hands and still laughing (with you, not just you😂) Love you so much @davidbeckham xx.”

While talking about Beckham To PEOPLE, director Fisher Stevens shared that David was willing to share all parts of his story.

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“He was not at all what I expected. He was so open. He’s like, I’m ready. I want to tell my story before anyone else,” Stevens, 59, said.

“And then I started doing research and I was like, ‘Jesus, this guy’s life is crazy. Crazy.’ I had no idea. And then when I met him and Victoria, I was like, ‘Oh my God, they’re going to be fun. They will be good. They’re going to be fun and they’re going to be hard and they’re going to be great.’”

Beckham begins streaming on Netflix on Wednesday.

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