How David And Victoria Beckham Kept Their Marriage Strong Even After Scandal

Show me one marriage without trials, I’ll wait. Just as every other marriage out there, that of David Beckham and his wife Victoria Beckham have passed through trials and they came back stronger than ever.

And on Thursday, July 4, they celebrated their 25 years wedding anniversary while once again proving that love indeed conquers all.

The couple met at a football stadium, back when Victoria was in a girl band “Spice Girls,” and David was a midfielder for Manchester United.

Although David claimed that prior to their first meeting, he saw Victoria in a Spice Girls video in 1996, and immediately told his teammate Gary Neville “‘That one there, that’s the girl I’m going to marry.'”

Anyway, the couple got married on July 4, 1999, exactly four months after the birth of their first son Brooklyn Beckham.

Three years later, in 2002, they welcomed their second son Romeo Beckham. Exactly a year later, David was captured at a nightclub with a woman Rebecca Loos who happened to be his assistant at the time, and it immediately sent marital struggle signals to the public, and paparazzi ran with the news.

Few months down the line, tabloids reported that the footballer was having an affair with his assistant. To make matters worse, Rebecca’s brother Charles told the “Daily Mail” in April 2004, “Rebecca phoned home early this morning. I am overwhelmed with shock. Rebecca was upset when she parted company with David and Victoria last year. She became very down and cried a lot. At times she looked heartbroken. I thought it was because of professional reasons. But now I am beginning to understand there must have been more to it.”

David Beckham — How The Beckhams Overcame The Scandal

Of course, David denied the allegations in a statement where he said, “During the past few months I have become accustomed to reading more and more ludicrous stories about my private life. What appeared this morning is just one further example. The simple truth is that I am very happily married. I have a wonderful wife and two very special kids. There is nothing any third party can do to change these facts.”

But that didn’t stop the sexual allegations because that same month, another woman Sarah Marbeck claimed that she slept with David in Singapore in 2001. At that point, David who decided that he had had enough told BBC Radio 5 Live the following month, “I’ve made it clear that with two papers the way I and my family have been treated is an absolute disgrace because at the end of the day, I’m a nice person and loving husband and father.”

Several years have gone by, and looking back at all his family had gone through, David admitted “I don’t know how we got through it, in all honesty. Victoria’s everything to me. To see her hurt was incredibly difficult. But, we’re fighters. And at that time, we needed to fight for each other, we needed to fight for our family. And what we had was worth fighting for.”‘

Victoria on her part shared that, “the hardest period for us. Because it felt like the world was against us. And here’s the thing: We were against each other, if I’m being completely honest.” During a May 2024 appearance on Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett’s SmartLess podcast, David revealed that one of the secrets to their long-lasting marriage was the fact that they stood by each other through the hardships. “Of course, when you’re with someone for that amount of time, of course you have your ups and downs, everybody knows that and at the end of the day we were lucky because we had each other at those moments.”

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