Wayne Rooney breaks his silence on Wagatha Christie as Coleen reveals what Rebekah Vardy text her after THAT bombshell post in Disney+ documentary
Wayne Rooney has broken his silence on the moment he learnt of his wife Coleen’s Wagatha Christie Instagram post.
In Coleen’s new Disney+ documentary: The Real Wagatha Story, the new Birmingham city manager, 37, details how his wife, also 37, kept her super sleuthing a secret as she tried to uncover how information from her personal Instagram was being leaked to The Sun.
An explosive trailer dropped on Friday, ahead of its release of the streaming platform next Wednesday, with the WAG revealing what her arch rival Rebekah Vardy text her after she uploaded her infamous ‘It’s…. Rebekah Vardy’s account’ post.
In a snippet from Wayne’s sit down interview, the footballer says: ‘What has she done here?’
The interview is interspersed with footage of Wayne accompanying Coleen to the High Court in London each day as the WAG war turned into a bitter legal battle.
Speaking out: Wayne Rooney has broken his silence on the moment he learnt of his wife Coleen’s Wagatha Christie Instagram post
Bombshell revelations: An explosive trailer dropped on Friday, ahead of its release of the streaming platform next Wednesday, with the WAG revealing what her Rebekah Vardy text her
Elsewhere in the trailer, Coleen says Rebekah contacted her after she uploaded her Wagatha Christie post.
She says: ‘I had a message off Rebekah saying “what is this?”.
‘I was like you know what this is.’
Between September 2017 and October 2019 The Sun ran a number of articles about Coleen, including she travelled to Mexico to look into baby ‘gender selection’ treatment, her plan to revive her TV career and the flooding of her basement.
But on October 9, 2019, Coleen shared a jaw-dropping Instagram post revealing she had been sharing false stories and limiting the viewers to just one person to see if they ended up in the newspaper. The goal was to uncover the leak.
The iconic end line read: ‘It’s……. Rebekah Vardy’s account’. The public dispute makes headlines around the world, with the hashtag #WagathaChristie trending.
Rebekah took Coleen to the High Court for libel and vehemently denied she leaked stories. Vardy lost the case with the judge ruling that the accusation against her was ‘substantially true’.
Wayne’s inclusion in the documentary will provide an interesting insight into how the WAG war unfolded.
The footballer was brought as a witness during the explosive trial.
Woah: An explosive trailer dropped on Friday, ahead of its release of the streaming platform next Wednesday
Bitter: Rebekah, top, took Coleen, bottom, to the High Court for libel – and lost after Coleen first accused her of leaking her stories to the press in October 2019 (pictured in 2016)
How it all began: On October 9, 2019, Coleen Rooney, now 36, accused Rebekah Vardy’s Instagram account of leaking ‘false stories’ about her to the press (above)
Support system: The interview is interspersed with footage of Wayne accompanying Coleen to the High Court in London each day as the WAG war turned into a bitter legal battle
Drama: Wayne’s inclusion in the documentary will provide an interesting insight into how the WAG war unfolded
Expensive legal battle: Rebekah took Coleen to the High Court for libel and vehemently denied she leaked stories. Vardy lost the case
While on the stand, Wayne said Coleen had become a ‘different mother and a different wife’ during the three year saga.
The footballer also revealed he was asked by England manager Roy Hodgson to request that Jamie Vardy asked his wife Rebekah to ‘calm down’ during Euro 2016 in France.
Asked by David Sherborne, Coleen’s barrister, whether he had wanted to be in court for the six days supporting his wife, Rooney replied: ‘I don’t think anybody wants to be in court but for me and my wife we don’t want to be in court. I’ve watched my wife over the past two, two and a half years, really struggle with everything that’s gone on… she’s become a different mother, a different wife.
‘It’s been really traumatic for my wife through this situation. Hopefully whatever the judgment is… me my wife, our children can go on and live our lives. This isn’t something we wanted to be part of.’
Wayne also revealed he had heard most of the information about this case for the first time during the ‘long’ week in the High Court.
He said: ‘Me sitting in this court room this week is the first time I’m hearing almost everything on this case. It’s been a long week. It’s the first time I’m hearing everything on this case.’
Coleen was awarded costs by the court and £800,000 of the total amount due was payable immediately.
Rebekah was said to have scored one of the worst own goals in British legal history after a High Court judge dismissed her evidence as ‘evasive or implausible’ and accused her of deliberately deleting WhatsApp messages central to the case.
Her agent, Caroline Watt, was also accused of intentionally dropping her phone in the North Sea. During the trial, some of Rebekah’s personal texts to her Caroline were read out.
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.’
‘You can’t go wrong if you’re telling the truth.’
Wagatha Christie timeline: How Coleen and Rebekah’s war unfolded
September 2017 to October 2019 – The Sun runs a number of fake articles about Coleen, which she claimed she only shared with Vardy in a ‘sting’ operation, 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. It prompts #WagathaChristie to start 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’.
June 23, 2020 – It emerges that Rebekah has launched libel proceedings against Coleen.
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.
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 Mrs 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 – Mrs 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.
May 10 onwards – The trial gets under way.
July 29 – Rebekah loses her defamation case against Coleen, with the judge ruling that the accusation against her was ‘substantially true’.
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