As Brooklyn Beckham’s relationship with his own family remains publicly fractured, his wife Nicola Peltz Beckham has revealed that her side could not be more welcoming and treated him as one of their own from the start.
“[They welcomed him] like another son,” said Nicola, 31 Elle Spain in a profile published on Friday, March 20.
“He gets on really well with my brothers. They play a lot of football together.”
Nicola is one of eight children born to billionaire Nelson Peltz and model Claudia Heffner Peltz, giving Brooklyn a ready-made extended family to step into.
The couple met in 2019 at a Halloween party, Nicola arrived dressed as a cat and married in 2022.
She recalled the early days of their courtship with the kind of detail that suggests she’s replayed it many times.
“When I came in, he was staring at me,” she said. Brooklyn had only been in Los Angeles for ten days at the time, and Nicola, who was described as something of an early-to-bed homebody herself, threw her usual habits out the window to spend as much time with him as possible.
“We were together until 10 in the morning, driving around the city and exploring,” she said. “We made excuses for not being apart.”
It was a call to her mother the following morning that confirmed what she already suspected.
“She knew right away, ‘If you’ve been up this late, he’s the one,’ she said. She was right.”
The warm reception from Nicola’s family stands in stark contrast to the situation with Brooklyn’s parents, David and Victoria Beckham.
In January, Brooklyn issued a lengthy public statement claiming his parents had tried to undermine his relationship since before the wedding, claiming they had pressured him to sign away the rights to his name in a deal he believed would affect him, Nicola and any future children.
“My wait affected payday and they have never treated me the same since,” he said.
Brooklyn also spoke about the personal part of the estrangement and the unexpected relief that has followed.
“I have been controlled by my parents for most of my life. I grew up with overwhelming anxiety,” he wrote.
“For the first time in my life since I stepped away from my family, that anxiety is gone.”
He was unequivocal about his intentions going forward, saying he and Nicola just wanted “peace, privacy and happiness.”
David and Victoria have not publicly responded to the allegations, although both posted birthday tributes to Brooklyn earlier in March when he turned 27.
This was reported by a source close to the situation Us Weekly that Brooklyn saw through it.
“He thinks it’s just another way for them to save face with the public and that it didn’t feel meaningful,” the insider said. “He doesn’t let any of the nonsense bother him.”
