I said on the last thread, when you strip it down Brooklyn had a very unsettled childhood in circumstances that might have involved a visit from social services in an ordinary family.
By her own admission Victoria suffered a serious eating disorder throughout his childhood and anorexia is a a mental illness and the most lethal one too. David was largely absent because of his work and his serial cheating. His parents had a very unhappy marriage in his formative years, just watch the reality show of them in Madrid and David openly behaves like he hates VB. There were rumours she was cheating too and a long period where VB was off in the US with Damon Dash. David was off shagging God knows who and the kids seemed to be passed off to someone else’s care. The actual parenting seemed to be passed off to relatives or nannies. He was shuffled from Manchester to Madrid to LA and went to multiple primary schools and doesn’t seem to have even gone to secondary school.
If some accounts like Tom Bower are to be believed his mother used Brooklyn as a shoulder to cry on about her unhappy marriage but he wouldn’t have been able to talk to anyone outside the family about it for fear of leaks, which is a lot for a teenage boy to take on, especially when that mother also has issues like an eating disorder.
The royal family are born to be famous and have no choice, but the Beckhams had a choice and they decided to give their kids maximum exposure from birth and make them famous whether they liked it or not. He was in their wedding photos in OK! as a tiny baby and it’s gone on from there. They created a situation where he couldn’t decide to be a teacher or a fireman and marry Sharon from accounts and live in a semi in Chelmsford because the level of fame his parents have exposed him to had made that impossible. He would always have worries about the people around him and whether they were really his mates or just attracted by his name.
They’ve created a situation where their kids can’t live normal lives but don’t seem to have the talent or abilty to earn enough to maintain the lifestyle their parents have, so their parents expected they would probably be dependent on them for life for money and therefore under their control permanently because they’d need them to fund the secure homes and security and management of press interest that their upbringing has given them.
Growing up with a mother with a mental healh issue like an eating disorder, an absent cheating father in an unhappy marriage and constant press intesrest (that his parents encouraged), but having to maintain a facade, can’t have been easy for any kid and it’s no wonder he’s turned out a bit fucked up. Plus as the eldest he would have felt a responsibility to try and shield his younger siblings from the problems.
The chances of him marrying someone considerably richer than his parents were tiny as very few people are, but he did and that’s thrown a spanner in the works because he isn’t dependent on them like his siblings so he doesn’t have to keep his gob shut.
A lot of the stuff that was said was about the wedding, but reading between the lines the issues with his family seem to go a lot deeper than that. I do believe him and I do sympathise with him. Nicola and her family might also be nightmares but to him they’re an escape from a fucked up family he felt trapped in. And even if they split up their pre-nup will surely have an NDA clause which would include a pay off big enough for him to live comfortably for life but would hardly make a dent in Nelson Peltz billions. He’s a free man now and can say what he likes.
I bet if he wrote a book it would have some really grim tales in it.
