Victoria Beckham has addressed her estranged son Brooklyn's explosive claims in a new interview.
Back in January, the aspiring chef, 27, announced his disassociation from his famous family, as he declared he was no longer part of 'Brand Beckham' and claimed his parents and his siblings Romeo, 23, Cruz, 21, and Harper, 14, are 'performative'.
Appearing on Emma Grede's podcast Aspire this week, fashion designer Victoria, 52, said building their £500million empire known as 'Brand Beckham' was 'never their intention' and insisted she wasn't a 'pushy parent'.
During the interview, Dragon Den's entrepreneur Emma asked Victoria about how she decides what 'remains personal' and what is part of Brand Beckham.
The line of questioning appeared to allude to Brooklyn's scathing six-page statement, where he claimed he had been 'controlled by a family that values public promotion above all else' with 'performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships'.
Seemingly hitting back, Victoria told Emma: 'When David and I first met it was never our intention to start a brand.
Victoria Beckham has addressed her estranged son Brooklyn's explosive claims in a new interview
'People talk about "Brand Beckham" - that has happened so organically. When I first met David, I mean he was a Brylcreem boy.
'So David was Adidas and Brylcreem and Pepsi and I was in the Spice Girls and that's where I learnt so much about how to build a brand and marketing.
'While he was doing Brylcreem and Adidas, the Spice Girls were doing Walker's crips, Pepsi, Chupa Chups lollies, deodorant.
'Do you know? True story, my mother still has a Spice Girls' pizza in her oven. That pizza's been in the freezer for thirty odd years. So when, people talk about "Brand Beckham", that was never something that we even discussed.'
Victoria insisted as their success grew, they remained focused on their separate projects with David working on Inter Miami, while she created her fashion and beauty empire.
She continued: 'We don't have any deals together. David does what David does, I do what I do.
'That's the way it's always been. We have very different interests. I think it was the outside world that really talked about Brand Beckham, that's never really how we saw it. We're just doing what we do.'
Victoria went on to acknowledge how her children must have felt the pressure growing up in the public eye but she 'always tried to protect them'. It comes after Brooklyn said he grew up with 'overwhelming anxiety'.
Back in January, the aspiring chef, 27, announced his disassociation from his famous family, as he declared he was no longer part of 'Brand Beckham' (pictured with wife Nicola Peltz)
Victoria pictured with David, sons Cruz and Romeo and their girlfriends Jackie Apostel and Kim Turnbull
Brooklyn Beckham's statement in full
I have been silent for years and made every effort to keep these matters private. Unfortunately, my parents and their team have continued to go to the press, leaving me with no choice but to speak for myself and tell the truth about only some of the lies that have been printed.
I do not want to reconcile with my family. I'm not being controlled, I'm standing up for myself for the first time in my life. For my entire life, my parents have controlled narratives in the press about our family. The performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships have been a fixture of the life I was born into.
Recently, I have seen with my own eyes the lengths that they'll go through to place countless lies in the media, mostly at the expense of innocent people, to preserve their own facade. But I believe the truth always comes out.
My parents have been trying endlessly to ruin my relationship since before my wedding, and it hasn't stopped. My mum cancelled making Nicola's dress in the eleventh hour despite how excited she was to wear her design, forcing her to urgently find a new dress.
Weeks before our big day, my parents repeatedly pressured and attempted to bribe me into signing away the rights to my name, which would have affected me, my wife, and our future children.
They were adamant on me signing before my wedding date because then the terms of the deal would be initiated. My holdout affected the payday, and they have never treated me the same since.
During the wedding planning, my mum went so far as to call me "evil" because Nicola and I chose to include my Nanny Sandra, and Nicola's Naunni at our table, because they both didn't have their husbands. Both of our parents had their own tables equally adjacent to ours.
The night before our wedding, members of my family told me that Nicola was "not blood" and "not family." Since the moment I started standing up for myself with my family, I've received endless attacks from my parents, both privately and publicly, that were sent to the press on their orders.
Even my brothers were sent to attack me on social media, before they ultimately blocked me out of nowhere this last Summer.
My mum hijacked my first dance with my wife, which had been planned weeks in advance to a romantic love song. In front of our 500 wedding guests, Marc Anthony called me to the stage, where in the schedule was planned to be my romantic dance with my wife but instead my mum was waiting to dance with me instead.
She danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone. I've never felt more uncomfortable or humiliated in my entire life. We wanted to renew our vows so we could create new memories of our wedding day that bring us joy and happiness, not anxiety and embarrassment.
My wife has been consistently disrespected by my family, no matter how hard we've tried to come together as one. My mum has repeatedly invited women from my past into our lives in ways that were clearly intended to make us both uncomfortable.
Despite this, we still travelled to London for my dad's birthday and were rejected for a week as we waited in our hotel room trying to plan quality time with him. He refused all of our attempts, unless it was at his big birthday party with a hundred guests and cameras at every corner.
When he finally agreed to see me, it was under the condition that Nicola wasn't invited. It was a slap in the face. Later, when my family travelled to LA, they refused to see me at all.
My family values public promotion and endorsements above all else. Brand Beckham comes first. Family "love" is decided by how much you post on social media, or how quickly you drop everything to show up and pose for a family photo opp, even if it's at the expense of our professional obligations.
We've gone out of our way for years to show up and support at every fashion show, every party, and every press activity to show 'our perfect family.' But the one time my wife asked for my mum's support to save displaced dogs during the LA fires, my mum refused.
The narrative that my wife controls me is completely backwards. I have been controlled by my parents for most of my life. I grew up with overwhelming anxiety. For the first time in my life, since stepping away from my family, that anxiety has disappeared.
I wake up every morning grateful for the life I chose, and have found peace and relief. My wife and I do not want a life shaped by image, press, or manipulation. All we want peace, privacy and happiness for us and our future family.
She said: 'Our children have had a very different upbringing to myself and David and I think the world is also a very different place now then to what it was when they were younger. We've always tried to protect the children as much as we can, we've always been very close.'
However, the fashion designer insisted she was 'never pushy'.
David and Victoria haven't spoken to Brooklyn since last May, when he and his wife Nicola Peltz snubbed the former footballer's 50th birthday celebrations.
Brooklyn and Nicola's lawyers wrote to the Beckhams' legal team demanding that they only converse through them.
In his statement, Brooklyn claimed Victoria had called him 'evil' for not being on the head table at his wedding to Nicola Peltz and also said she 'hijacked' their first dance.
Victoria told Emma: 'Ultimately, we want the kids to be hard-working and kind. I've always wanted to be the best mum that I could be and look after the kids. I also feel it's been part of my job to really help them fulfill their full potential. It's never about being pushy, it's about being there to support.'
She added of the challenges: 'I think it's very different parenting adult children to parenting smaller children. I'm just trying to do the best that I can, you know. It's my job to make sure my kids are the best versions of themselves.'
Victoria went on to talk about how both Harper and Cruz are adding to the Brand Beckham empire with their own ventures.
She said of Cruz launching his music career: When I look at Cruz, my little son, he's on tour at the moment, I said: "the most important thing is to learn your craft".
'Cruz has spent years learning play five or six different instruments, writing his own songs, putting a band together and touring small venues and doing it in a very humble way. He's incredibly talented and he's building his brand. That's just what we do.'
Victoria also revealed Harper's 'really bad' battle with acne has inspired the teen to launch her very own beauty brand.
The teen is said to be launching her debut beauty range aimed at Gen Z and Gen Alpha, inspired by South Korean cosmetics, this summer. Read the full story here.
Back in October it was revealed that the Beckhams had trademarked the name HIKU BY Harper, putting the steps in motion for the upcoming beauty line.
Victoria explained: 'She came to me two or three years ago and she was really struggling with her skin.
'She used to have beautiful skin, but like all young girls she was enticed by beauty brands and she was putting a lot of product on her face that was not suitable for her skin and consequently ended up going to see a dermatologist because her skin was really, really bad.'
Victoria detailed her own battles with acne and said she could relate to her daughter's struggles: '[Harper] said "I want to create a brand because I know what I want and I don't want other people to have to go through what I have been through"'.
Victoria said the ambitious teen even approached her with PowerPoint presentations in the early stages of getting her beauty line off the ground.
'One [PowerPoint] about this brand that she wanted to create because she was struggling with her skin', she said. 'And the other one was a reason as to why I should let her have a perm'.
Victoria added: 'I'm so proud of all my children, but you know Harper is very ambitious, she's very appropriate but I don't know what I expected to be honest.
'I mean, she's been sitting on my lap taking part in beauty development meetings ever since she was little.'
The business-savvy family have long protected the rights to their children's names, with Victoria famously registering Harper’s name for use in a range of branded products, including make-up, toys and clothing when she was just five years old.
At the time, an intellectual property expert said it was unprecedented to trademark a child's name because the move is usually reserved for those who are already celebrities.