David Beckham documentary director Fisher Stevens insists footballer ‘DID come clean’ over Rebecca Loos scandal in series

The director of David and Victoria Beckham’s Netflix documentary has insisted the sportsman did come clean about his so-called affair with Rebecca Loos, after she accused him of making her ‘look like a liar’ by skirting around the subject in the four-part series.

The former footballer, 48, made no direct reference to an affair and did not admit to any guilt in the new four part docuseries, titled Beckham – but did address the ‘horrible’ aftermath, which he claimed left him ‘feeling sick every day’.

Rebecca, 46, who worked as David’s assistant before going public with details of their alleged secret liaison in 2004, accused him of ‘portraying himself as the victim’ and shirking responsibility.

But now director Fisher Stevens, 59, has seemingly shot down her claims that David ‘didn’t come clean in the doc’.

Speaking about the ‘tabloidization of the affairs or the assumed affairs, which he diplomatically… not even diplomatically, which he didn’t handle…’ Marc added: ‘He didn’t come clean in the doc…’

Fisher replied: ‘He did.’

‘Well whatever they were able to survive in that was a testament to whatever that family was made out of, and what she’s made out of,’ Marc said.

Rebecca, now a mother-of-two and living in Norway, expressed her disdain for David’s handling of the scandal, telling the Mail on Sunday that she wanted him to admit to it.

‘Yes, the stories were horrible, but they’re true,’ she said. ‘He talks in the documentary about this ultimately being his private life, shutting it down.

‘I think it’s one thing to keep your private life to yourself. It’s another thing to mislead the public. And so many people had forgotten about all of this. So many people put all this behind them, this whole affair, the scandal and everything. And he’s dragged it back up again in a way that is affecting my reputation…

‘I think if he was going to touch on this time and how difficult it was, it would have been really nice for him to have said “it was not my proudest time”.

Critics accused Fisher of edging around the subject of infidelity because neither the name ‘Loos’ nor the word ‘affair’ are mentioned. 

David instead spoke about his wife Victoria, telling viewers: ‘Victoria is everything to me, to see her hurt was incredibly difficult.’ 

He also admitted he still doesn’t know how the family got through the crisis and said they felt as though they were ‘drowning’ when the scandal hit the headlines.

Former Spice Girl Victoria also spoke about the pain she suffered following the rumors, claiming she felt like the couple no longer ‘had each other’.

The docuseries charted David’s meteoric rise to football super stardom and his highly publicized relationship with Victoria.

Despite previously claiming ‘nothing was really off limits’ and that he ‘could have gone anywhere,’ Fisher told Maron that there were areas David refused to discuss.

‘It was tricky,’ he said. ‘There was other things I had to cut out because David just wouldn’t go there with me.’

When Marc mentioned the fact that it might be because David is British, Fisher continued: ‘They are… very repressed. The guy never looks back, I mean there were moments where he couldn’t even… his body…’

Fisher also discussed the fallout from the 1998 World Cup, which saw David issued with a red card for kicking the back of Diego Simeone’s leg after the Argentina captain shoved him to the ground.

‘That’s what I was fascinated by… how this guy survived that journey and continued to thrive,’ Fisher said of the backlash David endured at the time.

‘The thing that he brought up, which was so interesting to me, was how he mentally didn’t become a drug addict, alcoholic or fall apart…’

The docuseries came under scrutiny last month for brazenly doctoring a newspaper story about David’s alleged affair with Rebecca. 

Close-up shots of the article appear twice in the four-part documentary, which was produced by Beckham’s own company and paints a flattering portrait of the former England captain.

The day after the scandal broke in April 2004, a front-page story headlined MY SISTER DID HAVE AN AFFAIR WITH BECKS was published in the Daily Mirror.

It began: ‘David Beckham and his personal assistant Rebecca Loos did have an affair, her brother claimed yesterday.’ 

But appearing on screen in episode three and four, the first two lines of the headline disappear, leaving only AN AFFAIR WITH BECKS – and the opening sentence changes completely to: ‘The England captain dismissed the allegation as ludicrous.’