Coleen Rooney recalls moment she almost ended marriage to Wayne over his drunken escapades with other women, telling him: ‘I just can’t carry on like this’
Coleen Rooney has told of the moment she came close to ending her marriage to Wayne over his drunken escapades with other women, telling him: ‘I just can’t carry on like this.’
WAG Coleen, 37, married former footballer Wayne, also 37, in 2008 and their union has been at the centre of many scandals since, including Wayne being involved with other women.
In new tell-all Disney+ documentary Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story, out Wednesday 18 October, Coleen said she confronted former footballer Wayne after he was seen driving home with party girl Laura Simpson after a night out in 2017.
Recalling her devastation, Coleen says in the film, according to The Sun: ‘It was just sickening. I’ve had that feeling in my stomach a few times and I’d never wish anyone to feel that.
‘You do think, “Do I actually know this person?” when things like that happen… you’re not the person I married and you’re not the person I want you to be.’
Troubles: Coleen Rooney has told of the moment she came close to ending her marriage to Wayne over his drunken escapades with other women (pictured in May last year)
Devastating: Coleen confronted former footballer Wayne after he was seen driving home with party girl Laura Simpson after a night out in 2017 (Laura pictured in 2017)
She adds: ‘Wayne wanted it all to go back to normal but it wasn’t as easy as that. I was still mad and I just didn’t know what the future was for us as a couple.
‘I said to him, “I just can’t carry on with this”.’
In 2017, Wayne was pulled over by police and found to be three times the drink drive limit while driving Laura’s car, then 29, who he met in a bar in Alderley Edge, Cheshire.
The sportsman recalls in the documentary how Coleen ‘wasn’t happy’ but he insists he did not even remember meeting Laura in the bar that night and had not met her before.
Wayne goes on to say he was ‘silly’ to have put himself in that position as he would never have wanted to jeopardise his relationship with Coleen, insisting he knew it was her he’s always wanted to marry.
The sports star insists he was simply driving Laura home because she was too drunk to drive her car but, with Coleen being abroad with their children at the time, he admits is looked suspicious.
The couple have been dogged by reports of Wayne’s infidelity during his football career, with him previously apologising for visiting brothels and paying two prostitutes for a threesome.
Coleen – who is mother to Kai, 13, Klay, 10, Kit, seven, and Cass, five with Wayne – told British Vogue in August: ‘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.
Speaking out: Coleen spoke out in new tell-all Disney+ documentary Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story, out Wednesday 18 October (pictured last year)
Family: Coleen is mother to Kai, 13, Klay, 10, Kit, seven, and Cass, five with Wayne (pictured in Dubai last year)
Couple: WAG Coleen married former footballer Wayne in 2008 and their union has been at the centre of many scandals since, including Wayne being involved with other women (pictured on their wedding day)
‘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.’
She revealed that although she may be annoyed at first, she always gives herself time to ‘work out what I want’, adding that in some situations ‘there’s been doubts’.
Coleen has asked herself ‘is this going to work?’ when she has been ‘full of frustration and hurt’.
But claims that she and Wayne have ‘experienced so much together’ and have ‘never backed away’ from their relationship.
She added: ‘We own it. I remember having a conversation about this with someone and I said, “Well, do you know what your wife gets up to every day and night? At least I know what my husband’s doing!” It mightn’t be good, but I know. People lie to themselves.’
Wayne and Coleen’s 20-year relationship has been marred with various cheating scandals – with the footballer making national headlines when he was found to have visited three prostitutes as a teenager.
In 2004 after Wayne, then aged 18, moved to Manchester United, it was discovered that the teenager paid £140 for sex with prostitute Charlotte Glover, 21.
It was also claimed that at a brothel in Liverpool he slept with Gina McCarrick, then 37, and grandmother Patricia Tierney, then 48.
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Devastated Coleen stood by her man but didn’t comment publicly on the claims – though later admitted that when the scandal came out she hadn’t yet slept with Wayne herself.
The pair worked through their troubles and wed four years later, though their newlywed bliss was short-lived, as it emerged in 2010 that the footballer had slept with two more prostitutes while Coleen was pregnant with their first son, Kai.
More incidences with other women followed in 2017 and 2019, while in 2021 Wayne hit headlines once again after pictures emerged of the star partying and falling asleep in a hotel room with young women.
While Coleen has been forgiving of Wayne’s behaviour, she admits in the Disney+ documentary that ‘some mistakes are harder to forgive than others’.
Coleen revealed why she didn’t leave her husband Wayne after he cheated on her and insists her marriage is nobody’s business but her own.
‘I think if you’re in the public eye, people look upon you and think they know you, but they don’t actually. We know each other,’ she told the newspaper. ‘There’s love there, and if there wasn’t we wouldn’t still be together. So I’m not stupid.’
She acknowledged that while people may tell her that they ‘would have left him years ago’, they do not know what occurs within her marriage.
‘You can comment on my life all you like, but that’s the way I want to live it. And hopefully that’s how it always will be,’ Coleen said.
The WAG added that she and Wayne ‘still have something to work at’.
She insists the public may not know the full story despite people’s assumptions.
Coleen claims people ‘think they know you’ when in reality, only she and Wayne know the ins and outs of their relationship.
Difficult time: After overcoming Wayne’s last scandal, Coleen admitted that this year’s Wagatha Christie trial involving Rebekah Vardy nearly broke her marriage (Rebekah pictured in May last year)
In court: Rebekah brought a libel trial against Coleen after Coleen accused Rebekah of leaking details of Coleen’s private life to the press (Rebekah pictured with her footballer husband Jamie Vardy during the trial in May last year)
She told The Sunday Times that her husband is ‘great’ with their sons and is the ‘best at bedtime’. The WAG also claimed there is still love in her relationship, adding: ‘If there wasn’t we wouldn’t still be together.’
After overcoming Wayne’s last scandal, Coleen admitted that this year’s Wagatha Christie trial nearly broke her marriage because she was ‘hurt, short-tempered and he didn’t think she was the same person anymore’.
Rebekah Vardy had sued Coleen over an accusation she had leaked details of Coleen’s private life to the press after Coleen had staged an elaborate sting operation to find out who was passing on stories about her to The Sun.
And while Coleen won the £3million libel case, she admitted that things weren’t plain sailing at home and she felt like the stress of it was draining the life out of her.
She told that while the football coach was ‘supportive’, the trial ‘took its toll’ on their romance as she put her focus on winning the court battle.
Coleen admitted the pair had ‘disagreements’ because she was ‘quite short-tempered’ and found herself with little time for him.
Marriage: The couple have been dogged by reports of Wayne’s infidelity, with him previously apologising for visiting brothels and paying two prostitutes for a threesome
Coleen also confessed that she was forced to spend hours on the phone with her legal team meaning her family had to step in to help with their four sons.
The mother of four credited her parents Colette and Tony for their support, as she admits part of the reason she chose to stay in her marriage during Wayne’s various cheating and drinking scandals was for their children.
Coleen has said she was ‘really shocked’ at how ‘big’ the reaction was to a post she made about Rebekah which led to the high-profile libel battle.
In the post, the wife of former footballer and current Birmingham City manager Wayne Rooney, claimed that 41-year-old Rebekah was the source behind three ‘false’ stories in The Sun featuring fake details she had posted on her private Instagram stories to figure out who was leaking the information.
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The fake stories Coleen planted featured her travelling to Mexico for a ‘gender selection’ procedure, her planning to return to TV and the basement flooding at her new home.
Rebekah, wife of Leicester City footballer Jamie Vardy, sued Coleen for libel but lost the High Court battle after the judge found Coleen’s claims to be ‘substantially true’.
Discussing the public reaction to the post on BBC One’s The One Show, Coleen said: ‘I knew there’d be attention but not the level it got. I was really shocked at how big it got.’
Speaking on whether she still stands by the post, she added: ‘They were my words and I stick by them today and that was something that I continued with.
‘It was tough, there was times where I just wanted it to go away but that’s what I had to do, I had to just battle on.’
‘It was so stressful,’ she added.
‘I feel like a massive cloud’s been lifted now and even though I was there physically looking after the children, mentally I just wasn’t so now I just feel so grateful to be present again and to be there with the kids, both physical and mentally.’
Coleen appeared on the BBC show to discuss the new three-part docuseries Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story which offers her own perspective on the events surrounding the case.
The trial had been dubbed Wagatha Christie in reference to the popular mystery writer and the term WAG meaning ‘wives and girlfriends’ of high-profile footballers.
In Coleen’s October 2019 post on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook, where she initially made her claims about Rebekah, she wrote: ‘Over the past five months I have posted a series of false stories to see if they made their way into the Sun newspaper. And you know what, they did!’
Trial: Coleen was regularly seen at the High Court in central London during the Wagatha Christie libel trial (pictured in May last year)
How it all began: On October 9, 2019, Coleen accused Rebekah Vardy’s Instagram account of leaking ‘false stories’ about her to the press (above)
She added: ‘It’s been tough keeping it to myself and not making any comment at all, especially when the stories have been leaked, however I had to.
‘Now I know for certain which account/individual it’s come from.
‘I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them.
‘It’s …… Rebekah Vardy’s account.’
Wagatha Christie timeline: How Coleen and Rebekah’s war unfolded
September 2017 to October 2019 – The Sun runs a number of articles about Coleen, including that she travelled to Mexico to look into baby ‘gender selection’ treatment, her plan to revive her TV career and the flooding of her basement.
October 9, 2019 – Coleen uses social media to accuse Rebekah of selling stories from her private Instagram account to the tabloids.
Coleen says she spent five months attempting to work out who was sharing information about her and her family based on posts she had made on her personal social media page.
After sharing a series of ‘false’ stories and using a process of elimination, Coleen claims they were viewed by one Instagram account, belonging to Rebekah.
Rebekah, then pregnant with her fifth child, denies the allegations and says various people had access to her Instagram over the years.
She claims to be ‘so upset’ by Coleen’s accusation, later adding: ‘I thought she was my friend but she completely annihilated me.’
The public dispute makes headlines around the world, with the hashtag #WagathaChristie trending.
February 13, 2020 – In a tearful appearance on ITV’s Loose Women, Rebekah says the stress of the dispute caused her to have severe anxiety attacks and she ‘ended up in hospital three times’. Coleen says in a statement that she does not want to ‘engage in further public debate’.
Shortly after Coleen’s public accusation, Rebekah – who was pregnant and on holiday in Dubai at the time – denied any involvement (above)
June 23, 2020 – It emerges that Rebekah has launched libel proceedings against Coleen.
Rebekah’s lawyers allege she ‘suffered extreme distress, hurt, anxiety and embarrassment as a result of the publication of the post and the events which followed’.
November 19-20, 2020 – The libel battle has its first High Court hearing in London. A judge rules that Coleen’s October 2019 post ‘clearly identified’ Rebekah as being ‘guilty of the serious and consistent breach of trust’.
Mr Justice Warby concludes that the ‘natural and ordinary’ meaning of the posts was that Rebekah had ‘regularly and frequently abused her status as a trusted follower of Coleen’s personal Instagram account by secretly informing The Sun of Coleen’s private posts and stories’.
February 8-9, 2022 – A series of explosive messages between Rebekah and her agent Caroline Watt – which Coleen’s lawyers allege were about her – are revealed at a preliminary court hearing.
The court is told Rebekah was not referring to Coleen when she called someone a ‘nasty bitch’ in one exchange with Ms Watt.
Coleen’s lawyers seek further information from the WhatsApp messages, but the court is told that Ms Watt’s phone fell into the North Sea after a boat she was on hit a wave, before further information could be extracted from it.
February 14 – Coleen is refused permission to bring a High Court claim against Ms Watt for misuse of private information to be heard alongside the libel battle. A High Court judge, Mrs Justice Steyn, says the bid was brought too late and previous opportunities to make the claim had not been taken.
April 13 – Ms Watt is not fit to give oral evidence at the upcoming libel trial, the High Court is told as the case returns for another hearing.
The agent revokes permission for her witness statement to be used, and withdraws her waiver which would have allowed Sun journalists to say whether she was a source of the allegedly leaked stories.
April 29 – Rebekah ‘appears to accept’ that her agent was the source of allegedly leaked stories, Coleen’s barrister David Sherborne tells the High Court. He argues that a new witness statement submitted by Rebekah suggests Ms Watt was the source but Rebekah claims she ‘did not authorise or condone her’.
Rebekah’s lawyer Hugh Tomlinson says the statement did not contain ‘any change whatever in the pleaded case’, with her legal team having no communication with Ms Watt.
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