Victoria Beckham recalled the “dark times” of her fashion brand and shared the reason why she “hated” receiving financial help from her husband David Beckham.
In her new Netflix documentary series under her name, the spice girl The student lifted the lid on the difficult time of launching her career in the fashion industry after a successful career in music.
Victoria admitted that due to her little knowledge of the industry, 18 years ago she was “afraid” to do business.
“I was scared because I loved fashion and it was always my dream, but I knew what people thought. ‘She was a pop star. She’s married to a footballer. Who does she think she is?'” Victoria shared in the three-episode series.
After launching her fashion brand in 2008, she generated immense love and positive feedback from the public and the fashion brand grew steadily with shows in New York, London and even Paris.
However, her brand hit rock bottom and went into a lot of debt, forcing her husband, David, to invest his money, which ended up creating problems in their relationship.
When remembering the “dark time,” the singer revealed that “she almost lost everything.”
“I used to cry before I went to work every day because I felt like a firefighter. We were tens of millions in the red,” he recalled in the docuseries.
About how she created the problem in her marriage with David, Victoria shared her feelings: “Yes, I’m going home to my husband, but I’m also going home to my business partner. So I would talk to him about it. I had to. He was engaged. And I hated it. I absolutely hated it.”
David revealed in the docuseries that the lack of money even made them rethink maintaining the brand.
“We both sat there and looked at what I had invested. And I think part of that conversation broke my heart because Victoria is a proud woman,” David recalled.
He went on to explain: “She actually bought our first house in Hertfordshire, known as Beckingham Palace. So for her to have to come to me and say, ‘Can I have something? We need more money. The business needs more money, that was difficult for both of us because I didn’t have the money to keep doing this, and finally I thought, ‘This can’t go on.'”
