The video posted Monday on TikTok showed Cruz, his girlfriend Jackie Apostel, older brother Romeo and Romeo’s girlfriend Kim Turnbull seeming to mock the family drama by mouthing along to the instrumental opening of “On The Block,” a 2021 song by Lil Maru. The caption on the video read simply, “Imagine hating and we’re just here like.”
Cruz’s video wasn’t loading on TikTok at publication time, but you can see what was going on via an X share from user @LucyLuMerrygold.
In a series of posts, he insisted he doesn’t want to “reconcile” with his family and that he’s “standing up for myself for the first time in my life.”
Brooklyn accused his parents of controlling narratives in the press about the family and of “trying endlessly to ruin my relationship” with his wife, Nicola Peltz Beckham, “since before their 2022 wedding.”
“I’ve always spoke about social media and the power of social media, for the good and for the bad,” the soccer legend said. “The bad, we’ve talked about, what kids can access these days and it can be dangerous. But what I’ve found personally, especially with my kids as well, use it for the right reasons.”
