Coleen Rooney reflected on the ‘draining’ and ‘stressful’ Wagatha Christie trial in an interview on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday morning.
The WAG, 37, won her case against former pal Rebekah Vardy in May 2022 – and has since opened up about the trial in a new documentary and autobiography.
In 2019, Coleen, 36, publicly accused Rebekah of leaking stories from her personal Instagram account to The Sun newspaper, leading to a High Court war, which saw Coleen reign victorious – as laid out in the acclaimed documentary.
Speaking about the Wagatha trial, Coleen admitted: ‘It was just draining and so stressful. It was the unknown going into it.
‘I’d never been into court before, I’d never seen a courtroom before. I just didn’t know what to expect. It was all new and it was scary it was emotional.’
Coleen Rooney reflected on the ‘draining’ and ‘stressful’ Wagatha Christie trial in an interview on BBC Breakfast on Tuesday morning
She went on to reveal that she was sitting by herself in the car when the judgement was handed out and detailed what her reaction was like after months of stressful waiting.
She said: ‘My phone started pinging saying “Congratulations, we’re so pleased for you.”
‘It was a bit surreal. I was just sitting there on my own in the car. I didn’t know whether to celebrate or cry. I was a bit numb.
‘Since the verdict, the support’s been unbelievable. I’m grateful for that. When the verdict came out I thought it’s time for me to tell my story. It’s my story to tell.’
Her new book, My Account Coleen Rooney The Autobiography, tells the the Wagatha Christie libel battle from her side.
In her new publication, she gives fans an insight into the 2022 trial and also gives a ‘full account’ of her life, from her childhood to more recent events.
Coleen said she had no worries about sharing intimate details with the world: ‘Why not tell my side of it? I’ve been in the press for more than 20 years.
‘Even though I can be in the papers and stuff day in and day out they don’t really know me as a person which I feel like from the book hopefully they get me a lot more.’
The WAG, 37, won her case against former pal Rebekah Vardy in May 2022
Rebekah, 41, famously took Coleen to the High Court for libel – and lost – after Coleen claimed in October 2019 that stories about her were being leaked to the Press
Rebekah, 41, famously took Coleen to the High Court for libel – and lost – after Coleen claimed in October 2019 that stories about her were being leaked to the Press from Rebekah’s social media account .
Publisher Penguin describes Coleen’s autobiography as follows: ‘Here, she recounts how she first suspected someone was betraying her trust (and how devastated it left her), and then the meticulous steps she took to identify, trap and finally reveal to the world her suspect.
‘With the consequences playing out around the world and Coleen dragged unwillingly into a devastating court case whose outcome was far from certain, only now can she candidly give us her side of the story.’
Coleen added in the press release: ‘It was the biggest thing that had ever happened to me, and like nothing I’d ever experienced.
‘Looking back on it now, it still amazes me how inflated it all got, how ridiculous, how serious. That’s why I need to tell what happened in full.’
It comes after the release of her Disney+ series Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story last month.
It offered an inside tale into what exactly happened between warring WAGs Coleen and Rebekah.
Revealing that she felt compelled to make the show in order to explain the situation ‘in her own words’, Coleen didn’t hold back as she told the story from start to finish.
Coleen has released a new autobiography, which sheds light on various incidents from her life
With her first leaked post coming out in 2017, the mother-of-four revealed there had been plenty of drama behind closed doors in the five years leading up to the famous Wagatha Christie trial.
With a judge ruling in Coleen’s favour after Rebekah sued her for libel, she revealed the key elements to winning her case as well as exactly how she managed to uncover Rebekah’s deception in a two-year solo investigation.
Coleen’s autobiography shares intimate details of her living, including how she felt ‘hurt and ashamed’ when she learned that her husband Wayne had used prostitutes at a Liverpool massage parlour.
The incident took place in 2002 when the former England captain was 16. Coleen described it as a ‘horrible dream’ and admitted she was unable to decide whether the relationship had a future.
She said: ‘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.’
It comes after the release of her Disney+ series Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story
Ms Rooney, 37, still a teenager then, told how she agonised over what others would think of Wayne’s demeanour.
‘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.’
Coleen eventually decided to accept Wayne’s apology and they have been together ever since.
The couple, who have four children – Kai, 14, Klay, ten, Kit, seven, and Cass, five – got together when they were teenagers after Wayne repeatedly asked the now WAG out.
Eventually she agreed and they went to see an Austin Powers movie and ate a McDonalds afterwards.
They got engaged in October 2003 when Rooney proposed at an Esso petrol station while they were on their way for a meal at a Chinese restaurant. They wed in summer 2008.
