Coleen Rooney dazzles in strapless dress at her documentary premiere as she admits she ‘wasn’t there mentally’ for husband Wayne and their kids during Wagatha Christie feud
Coleen Rooney exuded glamour on Tuesday as she attended the premiere of her new Disney+ documentary at The Soho Hotel in London and opened up about the fallout of her public feud with Rebekah Vardy.
The WAG, 37, looked nothing short of sensational in a white strapless dress that clung to her toned figure.
She elevated her height in a pair of strappy black high heels and swept her long tresses up into an elegant updo, to show off her gold and pearl statement earrings.
Her new tell-all documentary Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story is set to air on Wednesday, and charts her headline making Wagatha Christie investigation and subsequent headline-grabbing trial.
Rebekah 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.
Stunning: Coleen Rooney exuded glamour on Tuesday as she attended the premiere of her new Disney+ documentary at The Soho Hotel in London and opened up about the fallout of her public feud with Rebekah Vardy
All eyes on her: The WAG, 37, looked nothing short of sensational in a white strapless dress that clung to her toned figure
Flawless: She elevated her height in a pair of strappy black high heels and swept her long tresses up into an elegant updo, to show off her gold and pearl statement earrings
And while Coleen won the £3million libel case, she admitted that things weren’t plain sailing at home and she the stress of the experience ‘drained’ her and impacted upon her family.
She is married to former footballer Wayne Rooney and the couple are proud parents to sons Kai, 13, Klay, 10, Kit, seven, and Cass, five.
During a Q&A with Edith Bowman, Coleen revealed: ‘I’ve been through quite a lot in my life. I’ve been through a few really tough times, but this was something else.
‘I was there physically for Wayne and the kids but I wasn’t there mentally. It drained me.’
She added that she had wanted to do a documentary rather than an interview in order to get the full story out there, rather than trying to explain it in a few minutes which wouldn’t have been possible.
It comes after Coleen discussed her upcoming documentary during a rare TV appearance on The One Show on Monday.
She admitted she only publicly named Rebekah after leaks from her personal social media account to The Sun newspaper ‘just wouldn’t stop’.
She told hosts Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas that while it may have been ‘easier’ to just ignore the issue, it had been going on for ‘so long’.
Infamous: Rebekah 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 (Rebekah pictured in May 2022)
Tough: Despite winning the case, Coleen admitted that the experience ‘drained’ her and impacted her family – husband Wayne Rooney and their sons Kai, 13, Klay, 10, Kit, seven, and Cass, five pictured
She said: ‘I put warning posts out there, saying “someone was leaking my private information” and it just didn’t stop, it continued and I just had enough and I just wanted it done with’.
Coleen went on to admit that while she knew the story and aftermath would be ‘big’ she never imagined it becoming a worldwide phenomenon, with the phrase Wagatha Christie even entering the vernacular.
Speaking about the aftermath she said: ‘There were times when I wanted it to go away but I had to battle on’.
It comes after the latest explosive trailer for the Disney+ documentary was released, showing Coleen tearfully divulging details of her investigation into her fellow WAG and unveiling the secrets of her hunt for the truth over who was leaking details of her life.
In the clip, Coleen is seen revealing that the saga, which began with a Twitter post on 9 October 2019, which was ‘constantly on her mind’, before issuing the warning to Jamie Vardy’s wife: ‘Don’t play games with a girl who can play better’.
Coleen’s husband Wayne features in the trailer, alongside Piers Morgan and Coleen’s mother Colette and her friends, who shed light on the pains of the drama.
The trailer also saw stock footage of both women arriving to the High Court last year with their husbands on their arms, while other clips depicted crowds chanting ‘Your wife is a grass’ while Jamie hit the pitch in the midst of the case.
Coleen was asked: ‘Have you still got the post on your phone?’, to which she responded: ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah. I stick by them’, before the footage panned to images of the duo entering court to the sound of a news report.
Candid: It comes after Coleen discussed her documentary on The One Show on Monday, where she said that while it may have been ‘easier’ to just ignore the issue, it had been going on for ‘so long’
Desperate: She admitted she only publicly named Rebekah after leaks from her personal social media account to The Sun newspaper ‘just wouldn’t stop’ (Rebekah pictured during trial in May 2022)
The reporter read: ‘Wagatha Christie starts today at the High Court, with fellow WAGs and former friends embroiled in a bitter row.’
Coleen said: ‘Someone on my personal account was informing The Sun newspaper of my private posts and stories – I thought, I’m gonna do something about it’.
Showing Coleen hard at work, she was seen laying out pages, including images of her family and other posts from the private page.
One of the film’s commentators said: ‘This is a detective story – you never find someone responsible with a smoking gun in their hand’.
Coleen detailed: ‘I needed evidence, I had to set a trap’, before later conceding: ‘I never imagined being in a legal battle’.
She was joined in her car by the camera crew, where she pointed out paparazzi following her.
Shedding further light onto the intricacies of the situation – and revealing the message Rebekah famously sent her, Coleen said: ‘I had a message off Rebekah saying what is this and I said you know what it is. It was constantly on my mind’.
She revealed her father had said: ‘You’re just not you anymore’.
Emotional: It comes after the latest explosive trailer for the Disney+ documentary was released, showing Coleen tearfully divulging details of her investigation into her fellow WAG and unveiling the secrets of her hunt for the truth over who was leaking details of her life
Where it began: In a tweet and on Instagram, Coleen said Rebekah’s account had leaked information about her. It triggered a wave of social media reaction and saw her dubbed ‘Wagatha Christie’
In his first comment on the situation, Wayne said to the camera: ‘I just thought what is she doing here, while laughing incredulously’.
Rebekah, 41, 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.
The story began when The Sun ran a number of fake articles about Coleen from September 2017 to October 2019, which came from Coleen’s private Instagram.
The Liverpudlian star claimed she only shared the stories with Rebekah in a ‘sting’ operation, including claims that she travelled to Mexico to look into baby ‘gender selection’ treatment, a plan to revive her TV career and the flooding of her basement.
Rebekah was on holiday in Dubai with her husband, Leicester striker Jamie, 36, when Coleen made the accusations on Twitter and Instagram about the leaks.
Rebekah said: ‘At the time I felt physically sick. I think it must have been the biggest panic attack. I was totally shocked. What to do next? That’s the million-dollar question.
‘I couldn’t understand why someone would do that. Why someone would do that knowing someone’s vulnerable, knowing the impact something like that is going to cause. It’s going to cause a s***-storm – a massive one – and that it did.’
Referring to a fake story about a flooded basement in Coleen’s new Cheshire mansion, Rebekah insisted: ‘The first time I read about the flooded basement was in the Daily Mail online. I love how I get blamed for that one, incredible.
Detective: Coleen claimed she only shared the stories with Rebekah in a ‘sting’ operation, including claims that she travelled to Mexico to look into baby ‘gender selection’ treatment, a plan to revive her TV career and the flooding of her basement
Claims: Rebekah was on holiday in Dubai with her husband, Leicester striker Jamie, 36, when Coleen made the accusations on Twitter and Instagram about the leaks (Rebekah and Jamie Vardy pictured during the trial in May last year)
‘If I had been selling stories, where are the messages saying “Give this to The Sun”? “Make sure I get paid for this”. Where are they? There aren’t any – because they don’t exist.’
In June the following year, it was revealed that Rebekah was launching a libel case against Coleen which began in November.
The libel battle has its first High Court hearing in London. A judge ruled 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’.
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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