Elsewhere in the post, Brooklyn accused his parents of trying to derail their wedding, claiming his fashion designer mother had “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”.
Reports at the time suggested that Nicola, now 31, had refused to wear one of Lady Beckham’s designs.
However, she later told the Times that after some chats about the dress over text, her mother-in-law to be had realised her atelier could not finish it in time. At the time, Nicola also strenously denied speculation that there was a feud.
In the end, Nicola wore a Valentino couture creation to marry Brooklyn.
Here, too, an account in British Vogue sheds some insight into how the dress may have been chosen.
A separate Vogue article, external from May 2022 looks in depth at the piece and how it was in the works for many months.
The article says Nicola and her mother made multiple trips to the Valentino atelier in Rome for the fittings, “over the year-long design process”.
It quotes Nicola saying the Valentino choice wasn’t just a dress. “It was a story,” she said.
Entertainment reporter Jodie McCallum said the issue over the dress is at the “core” of what reportedly sparked the feud.
“Did Nicola refuse to wear a VB dress? Or did – as Brooklyn says – his mother cancel the dress at the last minute, making her rush to organise another dress?
“It’s a case of claim and counter claim, and it’s very difficult to know what really happened here.”
Celebrity crisis PR Lauren Beeching adds that by going into very specific detail in his statement, especially around the wedding dress, “he’s opened himself up to fact checking”.
“What’s interesting with that is, the contradiction can be read in two completely different ways.
“If you support Brooklyn, you see the Vogue interview as him and Nicola protecting the family and keeping the peace publicly at the time. But if you’re sceptical of him, it looks like he’s rewriting events now.”