Coleen Rooney has spoken out about her infamous tweet as she breaks her silence on the Wagatha Christie saga.
Back in October 2019, the famed WAG (she’s married to former football star Wayne Rooney, in case you’re somehow not as obsessed with the whole ordeal) rocked social media with her findings.
The 37-year-old decided to publicly name Rebekah Vardy in a slamming post as the person who had been leaking stories about her to the press.
Coleen's post read: “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! The story about gender selection in Mexico, the story about returning to TV and then the latest story about the basement flooding in my new house.
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“I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them. It’s ……….Rebekah Vardy’s account.”
Taking her job as a detective very seriously, Coleen says she planted false stories for only her fellow-WAG’s viewing to see if they ended up in the papers - and they seemingly did.
What followed was the titling of the Scouse queen as ‘Wagatha Chrisitie’, a whole load of memes, TV shows and even a West End play.
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Coleen ended up winning the High Court libel trial against Rebekah, who was ordered to pay for Coleen's legal fees.
But despite all of this, Coleen has never really addressed the saga. Sure, she showed up and served looks at court and released a statement after winning the case but she hasn’t directly spoken out that post.
Until now.
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In a fierce photo, posing beside Liverpool’s Liver Building in a trench coat, the mum-of-four has given an exclusive interview and is the cover star of the digital issue of British Vogue.
Over the past few months, Coleen has been filming with Disney+ for a new, untitled, documentary on the whole Wagatha Christie ordeal.
“I felt like everyone else has spoken about it except me,” she told British Vogue. “And it’s my story to tell.”
Obviously no one could have put the claim better than Coleen and she still says matter-of-factly: “What I said in that post, I still stick by today.”
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Many of us will remember where we were when we first read her post, and Coleen explains where she was when she crafted her masterpiece, saying: “Well, I’d seen the story [about the fake flood in the basement she’d made up to test the Vardy hypothesis a final time] go online the night before.”
And she knew it would be in the next day’s The Sun.
Coleen added: “Wayne was away working in America at the time, so I had put the kids to bed and I was watching some TV, sitting on the couch and looking at my phone.
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“In the night I’d started thinking about what I was going to do. I just wanted these stories to stop.”
And those who were following this case, will know Coleen’s love for writing things down, as she confirms she used ‘a pencil and a rubber’ to draft out her post.
“That was the start of something that I would never have expected,” she said.
Coleen also revealed she didn’t tell any of her friends of family she was putting the post up, not even Wayne or a lawyer.
“If I want to do sunnin’ - and I know I’ll get talked out of doing sunnin’ - I’ll just go ahead and do it,” she explained. “I didn’t want no one telling me not to do it.”
Coleen is now more than happy to ‘move on’ from the whole situation and added: “You can’t go wrong if you’re telling the truth.”
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Jess Battison