Coleen Rooney has finally broken her silence on the libel case she won against Rebekah Vardy in a bombshell interview with British Vogue.
After maintaining a dignified silence, she brands her nemesis ‘odd’ and said her ‘evil’ texts read in court made her sick.
And she also reveals how she came up with a plot to foil person who had been leaking stories to newspapers about her private life.
She said: ‘I feel like a lot of people still don’t understand what happened, from beginning to end. But what I said in that post, I still stick by today.’
Coleen revealed that her plan to publicly share the leaker was all her own.
Coleen breaks her silence: Rooney brands Becky Vardy ‘odd’, says her ‘evil’ texts made her sick and revealed how she came up with THAT Wagatha Christie plot in interview with British Vogue
Secret work: She said she didn’t tell a soul she was going to put up a post about Rebekah Vardy’s account leaking stories to the post – so her family were most surprised
She said: ‘In the night I started thinking about what I was going to do. I just wanted these stories to stop.’
But she didn’t do a classic firing up of the Notes app at 3am?
She laughed. ‘No. I like a pen and paper – a pencil and rubber, actually, so I can rub it out. So I started writing what I wanted to say and then the next morning I put it out there. That was the start of something that I would never have expected.’
She said she didn’t tell a soul what she was about to do.
Adding: ‘No. [The part] my friends and family were most surprised at me [for was] putting the post up.’
On whether or not she had a prior relationship with Rebekah Vardy, Coleen said: ‘I felt like she was in the same world as me. She was in the public eye. I thought she would be protective over that kind of thing.
‘We could associate because our husbands had played for England together. But she doesn’t live around here. She wasn’t a friend. I’ve never socialised with her.’
And giving her views on the court case, she said: ‘It was so weird that first day, actually sitting on a bench together.
Arch rival: In June, Vardy, blasted an ‘inflated’ £1.8million legal bill from Coleen’s side – (pictured in May)
Pricey: With her own court costs fees adding up to around £4 million, Rebekah is facing up to £6 million in legal fees as Coleen’s final bill is now at £1.8million
Expensive: Lawyers acting for Coleen said an original – much lower – sum mooted at the start of proceedings was always going to be higher (with husband Wayne Rooney, May 17, 2022)
‘It was so difficult in that courtroom… especially watching her on the stand. It was quite painful. I felt uneasy.
‘I thought, “Why have you put yourself in this position?” It was not nice to watch. To this day she cannot for the life of her understand why Vardy took her to court. She is “odd”.’
And she revealed how she found out she had won the case.
She said: ‘I had to come out to take the phone call, so I’m sitting in me car in the middle of Manchester in an industrial estate on my own,. David Sherborne, her lawyer, came on the line and said “We’ve won,” he said without any build up.’
She laughed: ‘I think all I did was swear for the whole quarter of an hour phone call.
‘It was quite surreal how many people followed it. Not just footballers or the girls. It felt like everyone was reading about it. All ages, all types.
‘The positivity I got from it…I’m glad for that, at least.’
During the trial, Vardy’s personal texts to her manager Caroline Watt were read out.
Won’t be silenced: See the full feature in the September issue of British Vogue, available via digital download and on newsstands from Tuesday August 22
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.’
While Coleen seems to bear no ill-will towards Rebekah, she said: ‘I’m a forgive and forget person, I can’t be bothered with things going on and on. But this is obviously totally different.’
Coleen admits the trial put extra strain on her marriage to footballer Wayne Rooney.
She 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. You know,’ she sighed, ‘I didn’t have time for him.’
She admitted: ‘We’ve had our ups and downs. Obviously everybody knows. It’s been hard to go through it in the public eye but there has always been love there. If the love is gone then, you know, it’s pointless. But if not, you’ve got something to work for.
‘It’s been a battle at times. I look at [any] situation we’re in and think, “Could we move forward from that? Is it worth moving forward from that?” I don’t just give up.’
‘When people say, “Oh, she’s only in the public eye because of Wayne,” I’m like, “Yeah I am.”.’
On her upcoming three-part Disney+ documentary, Rooney said: ‘It’s brought up a lot of emotions. I felt like everyone else has spoken about it except me,” she says. “And it’s my story to tell.’
See the full feature in the September issue of British Vogue, available via digital download and on newsstands from Tuesday August 22.
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