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Brooklyn Beckham released a statement via his Instagram stories on Monday (January 19), outlining his reasons for severing all contact with his mother, Victoria Beckham, and father, David Beckham. The 26-year-old claimed he had “no choice” but to present his version of events, alleging his parents had been dishonest.

“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,” he penned.

Within the lengthy statement, which stretched across multiple Instagram stories, he also alleged his mother and former Spice Girl Victoria had ‘hijacked’ his first dance at his wedding to Nicola Peltz, claiming: “She danced very inappropriately on me in front of everyone”.

Whilst social media users remain split over who bears responsibility, life coach and author Michelle Elman has commended Brooklyn Beckham for his courage and determination. Michelle expressed concern he was “going to get slammed even harder than he already has” for breaking his silence rather than remaining quiet.

“We’ve seen it happen with Adam Peaty not inviting his mum to his wedding, we’ve seen it with Meghan Markle when she didn’t invite her dad to her wedding, we’ve seen it with Oprah, recently creating a documentary, saying how cutting out family members is a new trend. It’s not a new trend,” Michelle said.

She added: “I don’t know a single person who has ever resorted to this without it being truly a last resort after years and years of trying to create new boundaries, healthier dynamics, and really wanting it to work out in any other way.

“The main thing I want to say is that if you don’t understand why someone would cut out their family, be grateful you don’t understand. You can only understand if you are in a family dynamic like that.

“And the people who don’t understand and go ‘Oh I could never not talk to my mother,’ it’s because you don’t have the kind of mother you wouldn’t want to talk to!”

Michelle argued that Brooklyn sought to “create distance and create space” from his “enmeshed family unit” after they’d repeatedly crossed his “boundaries”, yet observers perceive this as a “betrayal” with Nicola being “blamed” for the situation. She also stated that this recognition that his bond with his parents wasn’t “healthy” stemmed from witnessing “another family up close,” which may have prompted considerable introspection from Brooklyn.

“So for your family unit, it’s a lot easier for them to blame your new spouse rather than take accountability,” Michelle went on, describing it as “never an easy decision” to sever ties with someone, explaining it frequently requires “years if not decades to finally cut someone out”.

She wrote alongside her video: “It takes so much bravery to step away from a family system knowing you are going to be the scapegoat. It’s a last resort when it comes to boundary setting but sometimes a necessary one and the only one that they will take seriously. If you can’t understand how someone stops speaking to their family, be glad you don’t understand.

“No one chooses no contact as a first option. It’s not impulsive. It’s not trendy. It’s what happens after years, sometimes decades of trying everything else.

“His boundaries feel like a betrayal and they believed that in a competition between them and his wife, they were going to win. So before judging someone for the relationship they don’t have with their family, be glad you have a family you want to have a relationship with.”