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Nicola Peltz could barely speak Victoria Beckham's name, the interviewer who quizzed her about THAT wedding dress row in 2022 has revealed.
Nicola gave the interview just months after her Palm Beach wedding to Brooklyn Beckham and it was published in Grazia at the time and republished on Monday.
The interviewer said: 'I was struck by Nicola's borderline inability to speak either David or Victoria's names. The 'she, Victoria, uh' in the above quote, was as direct as it got, otherwise, it was just 'Brooklyn's mom' or 'dad'.
'By contrast, she spoke easily, directly and fondly of Harper. 'I wanted a little sister so bad, and Harper is the sweetest. I have the coolest little sister. She sends me snapchats,' she said.'
The interview was first published with a brief reference as to why Nicola - then aged 27 - didn't wear a Victoria Beckham designed wedding dress, despite plans to.
A week ago, Brooklyn referenced this when he posted a six-page missive in which he detailed the extent of his feud with his family and claimed Victoria had let Nicola down with the dress design at the eleventh hour.
Nicola Peltz could barely speak Victoria Beckham's name, says interviewer who quizzed her about THAT wedding dress row in 2022, (pictured: Victoria on Tuesday)
Nicola gave the interview just months after her Palm Beach wedding to Brooklyn Beckham and it was published in Grazia at the time
The interview was first published with a brief reference as to why Nicola - then aged 27 - didn't wear a Victoria Beckham designed wedding dress, despite plans to (pictured at her wedding)
In light of his claims, Polly Vernon's interview with Nicola was republished by Grazia on Monday, with Nicola's quotes about the dress released in forensic detail.
Polly admitted that she suspected Nicola had simply wanted to wear a different dress at the time but now believes re-reading the quotes that Nicola was let down by Victoria, although the full reasons why are unknown.
Nicola said: 'I really, really wanted to wear [a VB dress] and I thought it was so beautiful that Brooklyn's mom got to make that for me! And I was really excited to wear it! And I didn't end up wearing it.
'The truth is that I was in a text chain with my mom, Victoria and Leslie, who's been my stylist for 10 years.
'We all were on this tech chain together, and I was so excited to start the design process. Um, and then Victoria, um, was like… Oh! And this was in the middle of me filming [her directorial debut] Lola James! So I was very busy.
'And then she, Victoria, uh, was very busy, and then we started this text chain, and a few days went by, and I didn't hear anything, then I think Victoria thought since I was on set, maybe she didn't want to upset me, so she called my mom and said that she couldn't make the dress. She said that her, um, atelier couldn't make the dress in time…'
Her quotes echo what Brooklyn had said in his scathing statement.
He wrote: 'My parents have been trying endlessly to ruin my relationship since before my wedding, and it hasn't stopped.
Last week, Brooklyn launched an astonishing attack on his parents and claimed Victoria pulled out of making Nicola's dress at the 'eleventh hour'
Brooklyn has told his parents they are only allowed to contact him through lawyers now
The chef remains in contact with his grandparents and it's not known if he is currently in contact with Harper - in this Grazia interview, Nicola spoke fondly of the young teen
Following Brooklyn's statement, the Beckham family have kept a united front, and it was business as usual for Victoria as she headed into Paris during Fashion Week on Tuesday
The designer, who was supported by her family as she was honoured with the Chevalière de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres on Monday, headed into the French capital
Supporting his wife, David sported an enormous Birkin handbag as he stepped out with his family on Tuesday
Dressed in oversized black jeans and a faux fur jacket, Victoria and David's daughter Harper stepped out in the French capital
Romeo Beckham was once again supported his girlfriend Kim Turnbull during the outing
Meanwhile Cruz Beckham was accompanied by his partner Jackie Apostel
Following Brooklyn's statement, the Beckham family have kept a united front, and they came together on Monday as Victoria was given a prestigious fashion honour in Paris
'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.'
Brooklyn has told his parents they can only contact him through lawyers after becoming frustrated by them mentioning him on social media.
He and his brothers, Romeo and Cruz are no longer following one another on social media - but Brooklyn was incredibly close to his sister Harper who has barely been mentioned amid the furore.
Brooklyn remains in contact with his grandparents and it's not known if he is currently in contact with Harper.
The chef had previously paid tribute to Harper on her 14th birthday, even though it's typical for the Beckham family to post on such occasions.
In this Grazia interview, Nicola spoke fondly of the young teen, making the distance they're now facing even more heartbreaking.
Nicola, who is the youngest of eight children, had said how she had 'wanted a little sister so bad, and Harper is the sweetest. I have the coolest little sister' adding that Harper liked to send her snapchats.
Polly concluded that Nicola and Brooklyn seem 'deeply in love,' adding: 'I ended up feeling really quite fond of them both.'
Following Brooklyn's statement, the Beckham family have kept a united front, and they came together on Monday as Victoria was honoured with the Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in Paris.
Brooklyn's humiliating post accused his parents of prioritising 'Brand Beckham' over all else and his mother of 'hijacking' his and his wife's first dance at their 2022 wedding and dancing with him 'inappropriately'.
He went on to accuse them of 'disrespecting' his wife and being concerned with 'promotion and endorsements above all else'.
He slammed the 'performative social media posts, family events and inauthentic relationships' that had been a 'fixture of the life I was born into'.
Brooklyn's claims about Nicola's wedding dress refuted long-standing reports from the time of the 2022 nuptials.
Whispers of ructions launched when it was claimed at the time that Nicola refused to wear one of Victoria's eponymous designs - instead opting for various designs from Valentino, Christian Dior and Versace.
An article published in Vogue four weeks after their April 2022 nuptials Nicola's stylist Leslie Fremar said the dress was a result of a year's worth of conversations with Valentino creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli’s team.
Then there were two trips to the Rome HQ and two US fittings, making it the 'ultimate couture experience.'
Hollywood stylist Leslie, who is behind the wardrobes of Demi Moore, Julianne Moore, and Charlize Theron, took two trips to Valentino's headquarters in Rome to see the design come to life with the brand's creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli and his team.
There was then two US fittings with Nicola, with the head seamstresses even journeying to Miami to ensure it was tailored perfectly.
Leslie said: 'It was the ultimate couture experience. The simplicity of it was magnificent. We didn’t have to overly detail the dress to accomplish the magnitude of it, so we ended up eliminating the embroidery.'
Nicola later confirmed the rumours had begun after she didn't wear Victoria's design.
While she denied at the time there was a 'feud', she explained that Victoria's atelier simply hadn't had time to make the dress, as she insisted: 'No family is perfect.'
She told the Sunday Times in 2022: 'I think it all started, and I’ve said this before, because I didn’t end up wearing Victoria’s wedding dress. But the real truth is I really, really wanted to wear it and I thought it was so beautiful that Brooklyn’s mum got to make that for me.'
But Nicola seemingly hinted at tensions claiming that her mother-in-law blanked her for days after offering to design her wedding dress - before blowing the bride's plans out of the water and saying her studio couldn't make the gown.
'We connected to start designing the dress, and then a few days went by and I didn’t hear anything. Victoria called my mum and said her atelier couldn’t make it,' Nicola told Grazia USA.
'I was planning on wearing Victoria’s wedding dress and I was truly so excited to be able to wear a design that my future mother-in-law created. I thought that was so beautiful and such a beautiful story.'
Following the revelations from Victoria that she couldn't make her daughter-in-law's dress, Nicola recalled: 'So, I spoke to my mum and Leslie, and I was like, "Well, unfortunately, this can’t happen, so what’s the next step?"
'I’ve been a fan of Valentino and their couture for so long. I was really lucky to be able to travel to [the atelier] to try on the dress. That’s really what happened.'
As the wedding plans were underway, insiders alleged Victoria was displeased with Nicola's reluctance to involve her in the plans for the lavish affair.
It was claimed the Beckhams took a backseat on the big day - leading to yet more fury from Victoria, with a source telling Daily Mail: 'The top table was all Peltzs and it really felt as though the Beckhams were not at the forefront...
'There was a feeling that the wedding was all about the Peltz family, as you can imagine, as it was their house and their daughter and their son making the speeches.'
Nicola later confirmed the rumours had begun after she didn't wear Victoria's design. While she denied there was a 'feud', she explained that Victoria's atelier simply hadn't had time to make the dress, as she insisted: 'No family is perfect.'
Brooklyn has claimed his parents had been 'trying endlessly' to ruin his relationship with Nicola since before their wedding (Brooklyn pictured with Nicola during their vow renewal)
Nicola ended up wearing a Valentino gown for her 2022 wedding to Brooklyn (Valentino pictured, who sadly died last week)
David and Victoria would 'take Brooklyn back in a minute' and are said to be 'horrified' by events this week, according source (the chef is pictured with wife Nicola)
Victoria was said to be 'feeling betrayed' by Brooklyn after her years spent protecting him from 'dark stories'.
The Daily Mail's Katie Hind previously explained how the Beckhams' camp 'leapt into overdrive in Brooklyn's defence' when stories such as kiss and tells and tales of him being 'involved him with the wrong crowd' surfaced.
His parents have often instructed expensive lawyers to protect him against such stories.
David and Victoria would 'take Brooklyn back in a minute' and are said to be 'horrified' by events this week, according to another source.
Following Brooklyn's claims about his mother hijacking his first dance, the couple's wedding DJ, Fat Tony, has also recounted the exact detail of the incident during an appearance on This Morning.
The 60-year-old branded the dance 'really awkward' and confirmed that Nicola fled the reception in tears.
Tony, a longtime friend of the Beckhams, claimed that Marc Anthony was to blame, revealing the musician had called Victoria to the dance floor with her son and instructed him, 'place your hands on your mother's hips'.
He said: 'There was no sl*t-dropping, there was no PVC cat suits, no Spice Girl action!
'The word "inappropriate", why I said it was as well, it was the timing, this is what happened.'
Tony continued: 'What happened was, basically, Marc Anthony was performing on stage, he then called Brooklyn onto stage.
'Brooklyn went on to the stage, and the next minute everyone's expecting Nicola to go up and do the first dance, and then Marc asked for the most beautiful woman in the room to come to the stage - and then he says "Victoria, come to the stage".'
He revealed that Brooklyn looked 'devastated' at the fact his first dance was with Victoria and not his wife, adding that Nicola left the room 'crying her eyes out'.
Tony went on: 'Brooklyn is stuck there on stage, and they do this dance, and Marc Anthony says 'put your hands on your mother's hips' and it was a Latin thing, and the whole situation was really awkward for everyone in the room…
'I've done an awful lot of Beckham parties in the past, and they are a very dancing close-knit family and love to dance, right? So you know, what we deem as 'inappropriate' is not how Brooklyn feels.
'This is all about how Brooklyn feels. If he feels that it was inappropriate and awkward, it was inappropriate and awkward.
'What's sad is that this is the bit that everyone's taken from the statement, and kind of whitewashed everything else that went on.'
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.
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