Ex-soccer player David Beckham (47) gives deep insights into his private and mental life in a new Netflix documentary. One of his obsessive-compulsive disorders is also discussed. Beckham had made it public years ago that he suffered from “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder” (OCD). In the documentary he now describes how his neurosis sometimes turns him into a cleaning devil late at night, reports the “Daily Mail”.
For example, he can only go to bed when he is convinced that his house is clean. However, he places extremely high demands on this: “I clean so thoroughly that I’m not at all sure whether my wife is even okay with that,” says “Becks” in a first excerpt from the documentary.
So he sometimes goes “when everyone is in bed, clean the candles, put the lights on the right setting and make sure everything is in order”. It’s “tiring to walk around cleaning every candle. […] I know it’s weird.”
His cleaning obsession isn’t Beckham’s only obsessive-compulsive disorder. As early as 2006, he revealed in an interview with the “Daily Mail”: “I have this obsessive-compulsive disorder that everything has to be arranged in straight lines or in pairs.”
The star announced via Instagram last summer that Beckham will be getting his own Netflix documentary: “The documentary is about my life and my career. It will include unpublished archive footage, unknown stories and interviews with people who are part of my life Travel was included,” he wrote at the time on an old picture of himself from active footballer times. The exact start date for the documentary, which comes from Oscar winner John Battsek (59), has not yet been determined.