Katherine Jenkins, David Beckham Affair: Singer Denies Romance Rumors on Twitter After Receiving Harsh Death Threats

Welsh singer Katherine Jenkins wants to set the record straight - the 32-year-old did NOT have a romantic affair with Victoria Beckham's football hubby, David Beckham. Once rumors started spreading online that 37-year-old Beckham was cheating on his "Spice Girls" wife with the pretty blonde, fans began sending Jenkins harsh and scary death threats. Jenkins finally spoke up on Twitter in August, heatedly denying the shady love affair claims.

Here is the straightforward Twitter message Jenkins posted back in August:

@KathJenkins: "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."

The popular mezzo-soprano singer kept quiet during the first few months the rumors began to surface, but then posted the rather lengthy denial on Twitter. Jenkins later on explained: '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." Some critics accused Jenkins of voicing her heated denial as a publicity stunt. But according to Jenkins, it was the death threats on Twitter and other social media outlets that encouraged her to stick up for herself and her reputation.

Jenkins recently stated: '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."

The former "Dancing with the Stars" competitor then went on to explain: "I was getting death threats before I spoke about it. You wouldn't believe how crazy and out of control it was getting. Some people who had not heard about it didn't understand why I did it. But a lot of people did hear about it and I wanted to put it right."

Today, Jenkins still doesn't regret squashing the "David Beckham affair" rumors through Twitter: "If anyone says anything bad or anything wrong then I will use Twitter to stand up for myself. You can see something that's very untrue written with '#fact' next to it, which is so wrong. It then spreads like wildfire so something so wrong is all over the internet. You can ruin someone's life by doing that."