For the first time since their’side-eye’ incident, Jude Bellingham’s mother Denise and girlfriend Ashlyn Castro were seen together on Saturday afternoon.
The relationship between Bellingham, 21, and Castro, 27, was made public in January. In February, the football player went public with his new lover.
Castro has since been seen supporting the England international at Madrid’s Bernabeu as his team tries to catch up to leaders Barcelona.
Castro and Bellingham’s mother Denise were spotted in the stands at Madrid on Saturday, where Bellingham helped spark his team’s comeback.
Images showed the model getting to her seat, settling in, and watching the match with a nervous expression.
Denise, meantime, watched from the back row and experienced a range of emotions as Madrid overcame a deficit to win the match.
implied that she and her mother, Denise, had a supposedly chilly exchange.
A screen capture that went viral on social media seemed to show Denise sneering at Castro as the TV cameras panned to the upscale neighborhood where Bellingham was watching the game.
Fans reacted quickly to the incident, as a side-eye gaze is typically perceived as a sign of disdain or contempt.
It has subsequently come to light, though, that the screen grab misrepresented their exchange.
Indeed, a brief video of the incident that showed Denise and Castro seemingly cracking a laugh was later circulated on social media.
Before the two were shown laughing, the first image showed Denise staring at her son’s new partner, as if to attract her attention.