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Rebecca Loos on alleged affair with Victoria Beckham's husband David Beckham: 'I don't expect any sympathy'

Published Oct 6, 2023 12:45 am

At A Glance

  • Asked how they survived the crisis, David said: 'I don't know how we got through it, in all honestly. Victoria is 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."
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Victoria Beckham and David Beckham (Facebook)

The marriage of power couple Victoria and David  Beckham was shaken after their assistant Rebecca Loos claimed she had an affair with the football superstar in 2004.

That same year, Rebecca sold her story to the now-defunct News of the World, where she claimed she got intimate with David following a group night out. 

Rebecca alleged that the hookup happened while David was living in Spain while playing for Real Madrid. At that time, David's wife, Victoria, was staying in the UK, caring for their children.

"I don't expect any sympathy," said Rebecca when asked about her thoughts on Victoria during an interview with Sky, according to mirror.co.uk.

Rebecca added: "I think it's bad enough for me to do what I have done without me expecting any words of sympathy. I really hope that they get through it. 

"I think the problems were in their marriage long before I came into the picture. 

"I in no way intended to break up their marriage especially when there are young children involved. I hope they stay together."

After 20 years, Victoria broke her silence on the media buzz surrounding her husband's alleged affair with Rebecca.

The former Spice Girl revealed it was the "hardest" of her life after it was reported that her husband and his assistant had become close while he was playing in Spain.

"100 per cent. It was the hardest period for us. Because it felt like the world was against us," confessed Victoria, when asked about the difficult period of her marriage, as reported by dailymail.co.uk.

The revelations came after the premiere of "Beckham," a Netflix documentary that chronicles David's life from childhood to his role as co-owner of US soccer team Inter Miami, on Oct. 3.

Asked how they survived the crisis, David said: 'I don't know how we got through it, in all honestly. Victoria is 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. There were some days that I would wake up and think, 'How am I going to go to work? How am I going to walk onto that training pitch? How am I going to look as if nothing's wrong?' I felt physically sick every day when I opened my eyes, 'How am I going to do this?"

David said: "When I first moved to Spain it was difficult because I had been part of a club and a family for my whole career, from the age of 15 to when I was 27. I get sold overnight, and the next minute I'm in a city, and I don't speak the language. More importantly, I didn't have my family.

"Every time that we woke up we felt there was something else ... we both felt at the time that we were not losing each other but drowning," he confessed.

Victoria admitted she was not happy leaving the UK. "As soon as I could get the kids in school, we then move full-time. Did I resent David? If I am being totally honest, yes I did. It was probably, if I'm being honest, the most unhappy I have ever been in my life. It wasn't that I felt unheard because I chose to internalize a lot of it because I was always mindful of a focus that he needed."

The Beckhams will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary in July. Following the crisis, Victoria said: "I feel happy now, I feel really content now. There's an element of you're passing the baton on a little. And you want that for your kids, wouldn't you say?"

David said: "Yeah, I'm not ready to pass the baton on yet."

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