In August rumours started circulating that Katherine Jenkins had been having an affair with David Beckham.

Katherine took to Twitter in double quick time to deny these rumours, which made us even more suspicious that something was going on.

Now the opera singer’s revealed why she decided to deny the rumours so ferociously.

“I didn’t want people to think I would date a married man.

“I wouldn’t want anyone to think I would do that to another woman.

“I wanted to put it right. It couldn’t have been more wrong. I couldn’t have people thinking such things of me.”

Katherine’s denial

At the time Katherine, 32, wrote: “Dear Twitter friends, I’ve read some horrible rumours on here & want u 2 know I absolutely deny I’ve had an affair with David Beckham.

“I’ve only met David twice - once at the Military Awards in 2010 & on a night out in the West End in Feb 2012.

“We were out in a group of friends & it was just a normal fun evening out.

“Just so we are clear I have never been on my own with him and never arranged to meet up.”

David's spokesman said: "Unfortunately, we have to deal with this type of nonsense on Twitter. One minute David is dead, then more scurrilous rumours, there is not one jot of truth to any of it."

Death threats

The Welsh warbler faced claims that she’d denied the Beckham rumours as a publicity stunt.

But after receiving death threats about her rumoured affair with Becks, Katherine felt she had no choice but to take to Twitter to get her side of the story across

She said: “From my point of view, I was actually getting months of people saying this to me on Twitter and calling my friends and asking if it was true.

“It went from being now and again to constant abuse.

“I was getting death threats before I spoke about it. You wouldn’t believe how crazy and out of control it was getting.”