'Your parents are not abusers': Katherine Ryan launches a

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READ: Brooklyn Beckham’s bombshell statement in FULL as he eviscerates his family in extraordinary online attack

Katherine Ryan has launched a blistering attack on Brooklyn Beckham, branding him an ‘ungrateful nepo baby’ as she savaged him in defence of David and Victoria.

The comedian, 42, was responding to the eldest Beckham son’s bombshell statement on social media on Monday where he launched an attack of his parents.

Brooklyn claimed he had ‘never felt more uncomfortable or humiliated’ than when his mother ‘hijacked’ his first dance at his 2022 wedding to American actress Nicola Peltz, 31.

He also revealed he had not spoken to his parents or siblings in 13 months, claiming Victoria had called him ‘evil’ over seating arrangements.

But Katherine, a mother of four herself, leapt to the defence of the football legend, 50, and the Spice Girl, 51, on her podcast, Telling Everybody Everything on Tuesday.

‘I am on David and Victoria’s side. As a parent, and as someone who has been a s***ty young person, I think Brooklyn Beckham needs to grow up a little bit,’ she said.

Katherine Ryan has launched a blistering attack on Brooklyn Beckham, branding him an ‘ungrateful nepo baby’ as she savaged him in defence of David and Victoria

Brooklyn claimed he had ‘never felt more uncomfortable or humiliated’ than when his mother ‘hijacked’ his first dance at his 2022 wedding to American actress Nicola Peltz, 31 (Seen in 2024)

‘He is the first son of an absolute dynasty family, they are like a royal family in matching denims to us – and that comes with many privileges. But of course it’s complicated because you live your life in the public eye. fine, but I feel that he has benefited from this a lot and he doesn’t seem to have the measured emotional intelligence to go, “In many ways, this has been s***, but in many ways, this has created me with a beautiful life.

‘”My parents are not abusers. My parents performatively or otherwise say nice things about me and give me opportunities.”‘

She added: ‘I do think a lot of nepo babies struggle with not being able to reach – certainly not eclipse – the success of their parents.’

The Canadian comedian, who lives in London with her four children and husband Bobby Kootstra, then took aim at Brooklyn’s career, pointing out every ‘rich boy’ venture had been ‘totally fuelled and spearheaded by being a Beckham’, including his £1million Superdry deal in 2021 and his cooking show during the pandemic, which cost ‘£100,000 per episode’.

She said of his modelling career: ‘Would he have been scouted in a shopping mall like any other gorgeous young boy? No, he was one of the original nepo babies.

‘We watched him as an infant be carted around to these football games. It is a really powerful name. This is how you got those contracts, or maybe he doesn’t know that.

‘Then he decides he wants to do photography, and we’ve all seen his photography work.’

She added: ‘I’m not seeing any of the gratitude in these posts.’

But Katherine, a mother of four herself, leapt to the defence of the football legend, 50, and the Spice Girl, 51, on her podcast, Telling Everybody Everything on Tuesday

The intervention is a dramatic U-turn for Katherine, who has previously criticised David and Victoria. Two months ago, she sparked mass backlash on Have I Got News For You after using the C-word in reference to Victoria, joking: ‘I don’t know if we are allowed to broadcast the “C-word”, but you did reference Victoria Beckham earlier …and we’ll allow that.’

She has also previously slammed David over his Qatar World Cup ambassadorship in 2022, saying celebrities don’t get to ‘cash the cheque’ while claiming to be LGBTQ+ allies.

In her explosive tirade against Brooklyn, Katherine dismissed his shocking claim that Victoria cancelled making Nicola’s dress at the last minute before their big day in 2022.

‘According to Brooklyn, at the final hour, Nicola had to scramble for a custom Valentino that, in the original articles about the dress, said was designed based on a year’s worth of conversations, that Nicola flew to Rome twice to discuss and design the dress, and that there were two fittings, one in Miami, I think, one in LA. How’s that at the 11th hour? It seems like they had a year to plan this Valentino dress.’

Katherine was equally unimpressed by Brooklyn’s claim that he felt ‘humiliated’ when Victoria ‘danced on me inappropriately’ during what was supposed to be his first dance with wife Nicola.

‘What does that mean? Twerking, grinding? Why was Victoria Beckham poised to dance that first dance? Maybe it was a misunderstanding, because you do a dance with your mother.’

On Monday, the eldest Beckham son, 26, launched an extraordinary online attack on his parents, accusing David, 50, and Victoria, 51, of trying to ‘ruin’ his marriage

‘I think it’s a little thin skinned to be, like, “I was humiliated,”‘ she added.

‘Your mother exists on the planet as her autonomous self. She is navigating her own journey and you have to accept she’s going to have feelings about her first son getting married. And if she wants to cuddle you during the first dance or cry, or she decides to become a bit of a bridezilla herself and insert her into parts of the wedding that you didn’t want her to, like, okay. Let that be humiliating for her. It’s not humiliating for you.

‘You know what you need to do in that situation is just be a gracious son and be like, “yeah, my mum’s a bit nuts.”‘

She continued: ‘I’m not sure he [Brooklyn] understands the trauma and the abuse that actual people go through. This is his lived experience, he has come to these conclusions, and he really believes that he’s been hard done by – fine.

‘He’s always seemed like a really nice kid, but there comes a point in your life where if you really want to stand on your own two feet and be a grown up, you also have to extend grace to your parents.’

The comedian also slammed Brooklyn’s recently reported legal letter to his parents, which demanded they stop tagging him on social media and communicate with him only through lawyers.

‘I do empathise with Brooklyn’s position that he wants realness from his family. But if that’s the way you feel, then you ignore social media entirely,’ she said.

‘You don’t draft a legal letter, which you know is going to be made public and add more fuel to the fire. He’s asking for privacy in an extremely public and performative way.’

Katherine added that Brooklyn needs to understand their difficult journey in the spotlight. ‘It was very difficult for his parents growing up in the public eye,’ she said.

‘If Brooklyn thinks that he’s in the public eye, imagine what it was like for Victoria and David. When Brooklyn was born, and he was blinded by paparazzi flashes, they had to navigate that world as new young parents.’

She added: ‘Give your parents a break. They did the best they could. Show them some grace. You can still distance yourself while showing grace. And I don’t think that it’s by publicly demanding privacy. You can’t have your cake and eat it, too.’

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.