Victoria Beckham has offered an insight into renewing her wedding vows with husband David following the footballer’s alleged affair with Rebecca Loos.
The Spice Girl, 49, discussed the aftermath of the 2003 allegations that the sportsman, 48, became close to his personal assistant during an appearance on US talk show Today with Hoda & Jenna.
Victoria recently revealed that the months after were the ‘hardest’ of her life in their new Netflix documentary, later detailing David’s decision for a ‘second wedding’ after the scandal.
The couple first married in a lavish ceremony in Ireland in 1999, complete with thrones, crowns and a big money magazine deal, but their renewal was said in front of just six people.
Recalling the moment on the chat show, the fashion designer revealed: ‘We were at school on Monday and David said we had to go somewhere for the afternoon.’
Candid: Victoria Beckham, 49, gave an insight into renewing her wedding vows with husband David, 48, following the footballer’s alleged affair on US show Today with Hoda & Jenna
Love: She recently revealed that the months after were the ‘hardest’ of her life, in their new Netflix documentary, and later detailed David’s decision for a ‘second wedding’.
She continued: ‘We landed in London, got off the plane and were met by the same car we drove on our wedding day.
‘We are remarried to the priest who married us all those years ago! think how can it get better?
“We get on the plane and we fly to Paris, where we had a 24-hour honeymoon and we stayed in Suite 302.”
After announcing their engagement in 1998, the couple attracted a long media circus after creating the brand ‘Posh And Becks’ – the private renewal came as a surprise to many.
During an appearance on the special 75th anniversary edition of Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs in 2017, David revealed that the vows were made in front of just six people at their home.
He explained: ‘We threw a lot at (our first wedding). We have since renewed our vows and it was much more private, there were about six people there in our house.
Victoria spoke for the first time about the pain she suffered in the aftermath of the allegations about her husband’s alleged affair with Rebecca on their four-part Netflix documentary, titled Beckham.
Almost 20 years after it was claimed he and the personal assistant became close while he was playing for Real Madrid in Spain, the fashion designer revealed the months afterwards were the ‘hardest’ of her life and she no longer felt like the couple do not have. ‘had each other’.
Sweat: Recalling the moment on the chat show, the fashion designer revealed: ‘We remarried the priest who married us all those years ago!’
Throwback: The couple first married in a lavish ceremony in Ireland in 1999, complete with thrones, crowns and a magazine deal, but their renewal was said in front of just six people
Rebecca Loos pictured in December 2004
Meanwhile, David admitted he still doesn’t know how they got through the 2003 crisis, but he and his former Spice Girl wife knew they had to ‘fight for their family’, saying they felt like they were ‘drowning’ when their high-profile wedding was in the news for months.
The former England captain also told how he ‘felt physically ill every day’ as he and Mrs Beckham faced a battle to save their marriage.
In a searingly honest interview in the fourth and final episode, Victoria appeared to be fighting back tears when asked if this was the hardest time in their marriage.
“100 percent,” she confessed. ‘It was the most difficult period for us. Because it felt like the world was against us.
‘Here’s the thing, we were against each other, if I’m being completely honest. Until Madrid it sometimes felt like we were against everyone else, but we were together, we were connected, we had each other.
‘But when we were in Spain it didn’t really feel like we had each other either. And it’s sad. I can’t even begin to tell you how hard it was. And how it affected me.’
David stunned the world when his alleged affair with Ms Loos was revealed in the now defunct News Of The World newspaper.
At the time, Mrs Beckham decided to stay in the UK so her young sons Brooklyn and Romeo could stay in their schools. The decision left Beckham lonely, and he admits he struggled.
He 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 until I was 27. I’m sold overnight, the next moment I’m in a city I don’t speak the language. More importantly, I didn’t have my family.
“Every time we woke up, we felt that there was something else … we both felt at the time that we were not losing each other, but drowning.”
Asked how their marriage survived, Beckham told how he dreaded playing football while his wife struggled to find a way through their crisis.
He shook his head and said, “I don’t know how we got through it, honestly. Victoria is everything to me, seeing her hurt was incredibly difficult, but we are fighters and at that time we had to fight for each other, we had to fight for our family.
‘And what we had was worth fighting for. There were some days I woke up and thought, ‘How am I going to go to work? How am I going to walk to that practice field? How am I going to look like nothing is wrong?’ I felt physically sick every day when I opened my eyes, ‘How am I going to do this?’
Hard: Almost 20 years after it was claimed he and Rebecca got close while he was playing in Spain, Victoria revealed the months afterwards were the ‘hardest’ of her life
Flashback: David and Victoria are pictured after allegations of his alleged affair with Rebecca surfaced
The crisis prompted Mrs Beckham to move to Madrid, where they bought a £3m house which she says she decorated herself. She later had the couple’s third son, Cruz, now 18, in the Spanish capital.
Despite creating a base for her family in Madrid, she admits she was not happy to leave the UK. She said: ‘As soon as I can get the kids to school, we’ll move full time. Did I resent David? If I’m being completely honest, yes, I did. It was probably, if I’m being honest, the most unhappy I’ve 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 he needed.’
Mrs Beckham described their time in Madrid as a ‘nightmare’ and ‘an absolute circus’, while Beckham said the school run was ‘live on Spanish TV’.
The couple say the documentary, which had never before heard anecdotes from Beckham’s parents Ted and Sandra, Sir Alex Ferguson, Gary Neville and Beckham’s best friend Dave Gardner, was like ‘therapy’ for them.