Coleen Rooney has admitted she felt “hurt and ashamed” over her husband Wayne’s prostitute scandal.
The incident occurred back in 2002 when the former footballer was just 16 years old.
Opening up about the scandal for the first time in her new autobiography, My Account, Coleen described it as a “horrible dream” and admitted she questioned the future of their relationship.
In an extract published by the Mail, she wrote: “The full story was that when he was sixteen, Wayne had visited prostitutes in a Liverpool massage parlour.
“When Wayne sat me down and told me it was true and that the story was about to break in the national press I was confused and hurt. I couldn’t even speak to him.
“More than that, I felt ashamed,” she continued.
“Everyone knew, and everyone seemed to have an opinion. I sat with it all swirling around me like some horrible dream, unable to decide what was best or what I wanted.”
“A voice inside me told me not to do anything rash and not to make a decision in the midst of my anger.
“Dealing with that kind of thing was heart-breaking enough, but I was eighteen–years-old. I was upset and confused, not knowing what to think or how others might react.
“I wasn’t sure what I felt about Wayne anymore. Also, I knew my family’s instinct would be to protect me, and whatever way you spun it, this was not a good look,” she wrote.
Coleen revealed how they had a secret meeting at her auntie’s house in Liverpool, where he confessed that the details were true, but insisted some of the revelations were false.
Weeks later, she decided to accept his apology and move on.
Coleen explained: “He knew how bad this was, how wrong. He looked down at the floor as he told me how devastated he felt having put me in that situation.
“I was still fuming, of course, and there were definitely a few screaming matches in the days to come, In the end though, I accepted that this had happened a long time ago and that we were stronger now, more committed.
“We weren’t the kids we were back then, Wayne was no longer the cocky lad trying to impress his mates. If I’d found out he was having an affair or he’d told me in love with someone else, I couldn’t have gotten over it, but that wasn’t the case.”
