David Beckham left Victoria 'overwhelmed with rage' after 'hard work' marriage confession

David Beckham left his wife Victoria "overwhelmed by rage" after he made a surprising revelation about their marriage, a new tell-all book claims.

The former footballer described their marriage as "hard work" during an interview with Australian TV show The Sunday Project in 2018. Now, author Tom Bower alleges that David's comments infuriated his wife.

In his explosive new book The House of Beckham, which is being serialised by the Mirror, Bower claims Victoria's publicist leaked a story to a journalist about how she was left with "rage and recrimination" following David's interview. According to Bower, the Spice Girls star hadn't been warned in advance about the chat.

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The author suggests she was instead in "disbelief" as she watched the interview on her mobile, claiming "It was like a nuclear bomb had gone off."

Bower added: "Her husband's disloyalty baffled her. His truthfulness had destroyed her efforts to conjure up an image of happy families. Why, she sobbed, would David embarrass her?"

Victoria is also alleged to have accused her husband of becoming "the enemy of her ambition". Following David's shocking interview, she checked into a Baden-Baden spa hotel for two days. In The House of Beckham, it's suggested that Victoria did so to regain her "emotional balance".

Elsewhere in David's chat with The Sunday Project, he confessed he had "grown to ignore some of the negative stuff" that is said about him and Victoria. He continued: "To be married for the amount of time that we have, it's always hard work, everybody knows that but you make it work. You make difficult situations like travelling away, being away from each other, you make it work."

The couple touched upon their marital issues in their recent Netflix docuseries, Beckham, with a tearful Victoria openly admitting they "were against each other" at the most challenging time in their relationship. David added: "I don't know how we got through it."