Rebecca Loos hits back at David Beckham discussing 'affair' in Netflix doc

After a huge 20 years, David and Victoria Beckham finally addressed claims of David's apparent 'affair' with his former PA Rebecca Loos, during David's four-part Netflix documentary which was released earlier this month.

With Victoria confessing it was the couple's hardest part of their marriage, David loosely addressed the claims which were made back in 2003 when he played for Spanish team Real Madrid.

Now, after being catapulted back into the limelight following the release of the new documentary, 46-year-old Rebecca Loos has appeared on Good Morning Britain to give her side of the story.

Rebecca, who now lives in Norway with her husband and two children, spoke to hosts Richard Madeley and Kate Garraway, where she revealed she was given no warning about the contents of Netflix's Beckham.

She said: “When this documentary came out and everything happened that happened, after the documentary came out, I tried very hard to just let it go and get on with my life.

“But it just really bothered me at the little angle, at how he'd played the narrative and how misleading it is and how it's making me look like the bad person.”

The former glamour model turned yoga instructor also alluded to the fact David has never denied the alleged 'affair', saying: “He's not denied it, he's never denied it. He has said that my claims are ludicrous. Ludicrous is not denying, ludicrous can be truth. Ludicrous is a term used by lawyers to give to their clients when they don't want to admit to the truth. They say ‘Use the word ludicrous, it will deflect attention’.”

Admitting she was given no warning that David and Victoria would discuss the drama in the documentary, Rebecca said on the show: "But that's okay. I mean it's their life, their documentary. So yeah… I didn't give them any warning when I went public. So there we go, so now we're even. Fairs, fair.”

Since the documentary landed on streaming platform Netflix, the mum-of-two admitted she's received tonnes of online abuse, waking up to 'horrific messages'.

She said: “I woke up to all these horrific messages on Instagram being called horrible names, which I won't repeat on the morning show, but just awful trolling. I've heard about the trolling before of course, I've read about it in papers with other people and never experienced it, because of course 20 years ago we didn't have social media and there’s two sides to social media.

“I love social media because I'm somebody who's been in the public eye and I've had journalists and TV presenters and people talk about me, you know without me actually having a voice and what social media gives me is my own voice. ‘This is me, this is my life, these are my passions’ so of course I like it but of course it's a double-edged sword.”

Not stopping there in the interview, Rebecca went on to reveal her thoughts about Victoria in the documentary. She added: "Well at the beginning I thought she came across really natural and I thought she was quite honest.

“I've since learned that the documentary has been made by his production company and it has been produced by his best friend and they have their Director of Brand Beckham Holdings behind it. So, now I do think a lot of it is kind of rehearsed, probably. But I thought she came across well.”

Going on to reveal she wished she'd chosen to speak about things in a different way 20 years ago, Rebecca told Good Morning Britain viewers: “I wish I had done it in a different way. I've always said this. At the time the advice I was given was this is the way to go about it.

“20 years ago, and the new generation don't know this, all the power was in the media. If anything was to happen it was through the newspapers. Nowadays, thank God, the power is with the lawyers and everyone goes legal, which is a much safer route. I kind of wish I'd taken that route, of course, but I can't go back in time.”

When asked by Kate and Richard what she thought of David's response at the time of the allegations, she said: “I think there are very many men who are happily married and also have affairs. So I think for some men that's what makes their marriage happy.”

Although she revealed she had nothing to say to the Beckhams now, she did conclude by adding: “I don't think I really want to say anything to them, but what I would like to say is, I think by him not acknowledging responsibility, he is giving a message that it's okay to behave like this, and I think that is a wrong message to give.

“My message is, you make mistakes, own up to them, say sorry, move on. That's what I'm teaching my kids. I'm teaching my kids… Just teaching kids, you know, be honest, be truthful and apologise and then ‘boom’ you can move on with life.”

Rebecca is now a yoga teacher living in Norway alongside her husband, and her two children who are aged 11 and 14.

Check out David and Victoria over the years below:

Beckham is available to watch on Netflix now.

Good Morning Britain weekdays from 6am on ITV1/STV1.

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