David Beckham was left “clinically depressed” after his purple card within the 1998 World Cup, his spouse Victoria has stated.

Her feedback are a part of a brand new Netflix documentary concerning the footballer, which delves into his profession with interviews from family and friends – in addition to Posh and Becks themselves.

Beckham was despatched off throughout the match with Argentina in 1998, after kicking Diego Simeone – a recreation that England went on to lose in a penalty shoot-out.

In the second episode of the documentary, Victoria, 49, and David, 48, discuss concerning the abuse they’d levelled at them within the late Nineteen Nineties on account of the sending off.

After the sport, an effigy of Beckham hung in a pub, and through the next season, Manchester United’s crew bus was pelted with rocks and pint glasses at an away recreation at West Ham.

Victoria stated: “He was absolutely broken. He was in pieces.

“He was actually depressed, completely clinically depressed.

“It pained me so much, I still want to kill these people.”

Beckham added: “I want there was a capsule you possibly can take which may erase sure recollections.

“I made a stupid mistake. It changed my life. (The questions when he came back) ‘how do you feel about letting your country down?’ and ‘you are a disgrace’.

“We have been in America, nearly to have our first child, and I assumed ‘we might be high-quality, in a day or two individuals could have forgotten’.

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“I don’t think I have ever talked about it, just because I can’t. I find it hard to talk through what I went through because it was so extreme.

“Wherever I went, I acquired abused each single day.

“To walk down the street and to see people look at you in a certain way, spit at you, abuse you, come up to your face and say some of the things they said, that is difficult.

“I wasn’t consuming, I wasn’t sleeping. I used to be a large number. I did not know what to do.

“The boss (Alex Ferguson) called me. He said ‘David, how are you doing?’ I think I got quite emotional. He said ‘how are you doing, son?’. I said ‘not great boss’. He said ‘OK, don’t worry about it, son’.

“That was the one factor I may management, as soon as I used to be on the pitch, then I felt secure.”

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Beckham added: “It brought a lot of attention that I would never wish on anyone, let alone my parents, and I can’t forgive myself for that. That is the tough part of what happened, because I was the one that made the mistake.

“When I’ve gone by way of troublesome moments, I used to be in a position to block it out, however inside it killed me.

“Any time I was kicked during that season, it was like the (opposition team) had got two goals.

“As horrible because it was to look as much as Victoria within the stand (getting that abuse), it was the one factor which spurred me on.”

The collection streams from Wednesday 4 October.