Brooklyn Beckham slammed for holding fiancée Nicola Peltz's neck, domestic violence group says 'it's disgusting'
A domestic violence charity slammed Brooklyn Beckham after he was seen in a presently-deleted picture sticking out his tongue while holding his fiancée Nicola Peltz's neck. David Beckham's eldest son, 21, was seen holding the actress' neck while drinking wine during a meal. As his tattooed arm was seen clutching Nicola's throat, the model looked at the camera touching his upper lip with his tongue while his fiancée could not control her laughter. The snap was deleted after much criticism. The founder of KWRO Women's Rights Organisation said that Brooklyn was treating a serious issue like domestic violence like a joke and this was "disgusting." The couple should be forced to publicly apologize, founder Dianna Nammi stated.
"It is disgusting and I think with serious matters no one should allow themselves to make a joke," Nammi said, reacting to the photo that was posted by the 'Bates Motel' star. "This is very important, an organization like ours has seen so many women become victims of honor-based violence, domestic violence, forced marriage — and they have been strangled by their own family and they have been killed by husbands, partners or boyfriends."
She continued: "So we are talking about real life, even if it's a joke it is disgusting in my opinion. I think it should be banned from Instagram this kind of picture. He is 21 so mature enough to know it is a very serious matter and I think he has to apologize openly and tell people that he made a huge mistake. We are talking about living people — it is not a doll to play with, so I think this is sending a very wrong message, a very dangerous message to young people especially. This kind of attitude is not acceptable and both men and women, especially women, need to be respected and their life needs to be celebrated. It is so dangerous and his position is so important and not only him but his family need to discuss it to say something in the media that they are not that approving of that, because of their position especially."
Nammi said that Brooklyn had no excuse to behave the way he did. "In his position, he should not do it at all and not even be thinking about that and I could not believe this kind of thing has happened. He is mature enough, he is not a baby playing with a doll. We are talking about an adult man talking about his girlfriend — and his girlfriend definitely must not accept that. I urge them to put a message of apology on Instagram and Twitter and everywhere on the media for their wrongdoing. People like us fighting on a daily basis, talking in schools, trying to educate people about the issues of domestic violence and how to have a healthy relationship. On a daily basis, we are trying to bring these things to the school curriculum — for example, healthy relationships need to be educated to people — but one message from an irresponsible like him gives a very big message to the whole world and this is so dangerous. I think he has to really learn how to treat women, he has to go to healthy relationship education courses and learn how to act as a responsible human being," she added.
KWRO is an organization that campaigns against issues such as domestic violence, honor-based violence, and forced marriage.