Coleen Rooney has broken her silence on the Wagatha Christie trial, which concluded her infamous legal battle with Rebekah Vardy.
The wife of Jamie Vardy lost her high-profile libel case against Coleen in July 2022, following a seven-day trial at London’s High Court.
In a new interview with British Vogue, Coleen spoke out about the trial for the first time, and how it affected her marriage to Wayne Rooney.
The WAG also addressed brutal messages that surfaced during the trial between Rebekah and her former agent.
Coleen said: “The texts knocked me sick, they were just another level.”
“When I was reading them I was thinking: the evilness and the hatred that they had for someone that they don’t even know.”
The mother-of-four said she still stands by what she wrote in her explosive social media statement, which was posted in October 2019.
Coleen told the magazine: “What I said in that post, I still stick by today.”
Revealing how the trial took a toll on her marriage, the 37-year-old said: “He was supportive, you know, but it took its toll.”
“He kept saying all the way throughout it: ‘Don’t worry, you’ll be fine.’ But there were certain moments where we did have disagreements.”
“Not over the case, but he would get annoyed with me because I was quite short-tempered. I didn’t have time for him, I lost my focus.”
The drama between Coleen and Rebekah kicked off in October 2019.
At the time, the wife of Wayne Rooney posted a statement on social media, claiming she had planted false information on her private Instagram page and blocked everyone from her story – except Rebekah’s account.
The mother-of-four said stories about her basement flooding, returning to TV, and gender selection were only viewed by Rebekah’s account – and the false stories all made it into the press.
Coleen believed this was proof that her fellow WAG allegedly sold stories about her private life, but Rebekah vehemently denied her claims.
Their lengthy legal battle concluded with a seven-day trial at London’s High Court in May 2022.
The highly-publicised trial saw both WAGs give evidence in court, as Rebekah tried to prove she wasn’t behind the leaks.
However, Coleen defended her claim in court on the basis her post was “substantially true”.
Mrs Justice Steyn, who oversaw the week-long case in May, delivered her written ruling in July 2022.
In her ruling, the judge agreed with Coleen’s defence, and said it was “likely” that Rebekah’s then-agent, Caroline Watt, “undertook the direct act” of passing information to The Sun newspaper.
Rebekah strongly denied Coleen’s claims in court, but on the final day of the trial, she accepted that her former agent Caroline, who had access to her Instagram account, may have been behind the leaks.
Coleen has since signed a “multi-million pound” deal with Disney+ for the rights to a tell-all documentary about the Wagatha Christie case; meanwhile Rebekah has reportedly signed a deal to take part in a separate tell-all documentary.
