Rebecca Loos reflected on her claims, which Beckham has previously denied, in a new ‘60 Minutes Australia’ interview

David Beckham; Rebecca Loos. Photo:Arnold Jerocki/Getty;60 Minutes Australia/Youtube

• Rebecca Loos, the former assistant of David Beckham, recently sat down with 60 Minutes Australia to discuss the affair claims she made about the soccer star over two decades ago.
• Beckham has previously denied her accusations.
• Loos said in the new interview that she has “stuck to the truth,” ”never exaggerated” and “never lied about a single thing.”

David Beckham’s former assistant Rebecca Loos, who alleges she had a four-month-long affair with him more than 20 years ago, is doubling down on her past claims in a new interview.

Speaking with 60 Minutes Australia in a segment published on Sunday, March 30, the former Dutch model who worked as Beckham’s personal assistant in 2003 is claiming that she “stuck to the truth” in the years since she alleged she and the soccer star had an affair while he was married to his wife, Victoria Beckham.

A rep for David did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on March 30. The soccer star, now 49, has previously denied Loos’ accusations, calling them “ludicrous” two decades ago in a statement to The Guardian.

“In my opinion, it was a very brave thing to do to go up against them,” Loos, now 47, told 60 Minutes Australia. “I have stuck to the truth. I’ve never exaggerated. I never lied about a single thing.”

“Why? Because I’m going up against the strongest, most powerful couple in the media who have all the money in the world for the best PR, the best lawyers. And all I had on my side was the truth,” she added.

Rebecca Loos in 2006. Niki Nikolova/FilmMagic

Loos, who is now married to a doctor with whom she shares two teenage boys, began working for Beckham shortly after he was transferred to Real Madrid from Manchester United in July 2003.

Following her termination, she claimed in an interview with News of the World in April 2004 that the pair had a four-month-long affair. David was, at the time, married to Victoria for five years and had two children when Loos began working for him. He denied the allegations.

“During the past few months I have become accustomed to reading more and more ludicrous stories about my private life,” David said at the time. “What appeared this morning is just one further example.”

“The simple truth is that I am very happily married and have a wonderful wife and two very special kids,” he added. “There is nothing any third party can do to change this.”

Now, Loos is reflecting on her accusations. Working for Beckham in 2003 in Madrid, she told 60 Minutes Australia, meant she was the “first person they see in the morning and the last person they see in the evening.”

Reiterating her claims, she told the outlet that Victoria was out of town when David allegedly invited her to a hotel, adding that she “gave in.”

“I fell hook, line and sinker for every single cliche line he fed me,” Loos said. “And then two weeks later we were at Ronaldo’s birthday party and he’s off with this beautiful model. And I was like, ‘Uh.’ That was a hard night for me. I was like, ‘Uh, I don’t understand.’ And realizations started to hit that I’d been massively played.”

Loos told 60 Minutes Australia that she spoke out publicly after claims of an extramarital affair hit the British media because she “always had the opinion [that] it’s better that it comes from me and I have some sort of control.”

Two decades later, in the 2023 four-part series, Beckham, the soccer star touched upon a difficult time in his and Victoria’s marriage. In the series, Victoria called the time when her husband transferred to Real Madrid “the most unhappy I’ve ever been in my entire life.” The pair did not name Loos or her accusations in the series, which was directed by Fisher Stevens.

“It felt like the world was against us,” Victoria said in the documentary. “And here’s the thing — we were against each other if I’m being completely honest.”

Victoria and David Beckham attends the 2003 MTV Movie Awards. Kevin Winter/Getty

“There was some horrible stories that were difficult to deal with,” David added in the series. “It was the first time that me and Victoria had been put under that kind of pressure in our marriage. Every time that we woke up we felt that there was something else. I think we both felt at the time that we were, not losing each other, but drowning.”

As Loos now claims, there were “loads of horrible stories” at the time about both herself and Victoria, but “never” David, alleging that “nothing changed in his life” at the time.

“I think all of that impacted my mental health in a way that it was quite traumatic but I didn’t admit to it being traumatic because I wanted to be brave and strong,” Loos added. “But some of it seeped through and got to me and that has taken time to recover from.”

Loos has pivoted careers and is now a certified yoga and meditation teacher. 60 Minutes Australia said she is also a medical assistant.

David and Victoria have been married since 1999 and share three sons — Brooklyn, Cruz and Romeo — and their youngest, daughter Harper.