David Beckham has said the secret to his marriage with Spice Girls singer Victoria Beckham is "making time for each other".
David and Victoria married at Luttrelstown Castle in Ireland in 1999 and share four children, Brooklyn, Romeo, Cruz and Harper.
Speaking on the red carpet for the London premiere of his new documentary series, Beckham said: "We’ve been together now for 26 years, almost three decades. We’ve got amazing kids, we’ve built businesses, but we make time for each other. We respect each other and we love our kids.
"You have to work hard at these things and yes, we’ve been together for a long time."
The new Netflix series, titled Beckham, follows the former midfielder’s rise to football stardom through interviews with David and Victoria and other famous faces.
The docuseries will also see him discuss a period of depression he went through in the late 1990s after being sent off in the 1998 World Cup.
Beckham became a target for abuse when he received a red card in the game against Argentina.
Reflecting on opening up about these difficult moments, Beckham said on the red carpet: "I wanted to do it right. I’m never going to do a live documentary again."
He also said that making the documentary was part of his process of healing from these challenging moments.
"I never really sat down and talked about it in such detail. Obviously, my family and friends knew what I went through personally and professionally," he explained.
"But sitting down and going through it in detail or looking at the archive and looking at stuff that I’d properly never seen before, that was quite difficult.
"And then realising how difficult it was at the time, on the pitch and off the pitch.
"So it was a really difficult time, but I suppose this is all part of the healing process."
Source: Press Association
