Coleen Rooney says Rebekah Vardy tried to force 'unnatural' friendship
dailyrecord.co.ukColeen Rooney has said she felt like her friendship with Rebekah Vardy before the so-called Wagatha Christie case was “unnatural”.
The duo were friendly before Vardy launched a libel battle against Rooney, 37, which Vardy, 41, lost when the High Court judge found Rooney’s claims to be “substantially true”.
The wife of former England football star Wayne Rooney publicly claimed in a social media post in October 2019 that Vardy’s account was the source behind three stories in The Sun newspaper featuring fake details she had posted on her private Instagram stories in a months-long “sting operation” she had carried out.
Speaking to The Times ahead of the release of a new documentary called Coleen Rooney: The Real Wagatha Story, detailing the libel case from her point of view, Rooney discussed how the trial came about and what it has been like for her to make friends as a wag (footballer’s wife).Rooney said she had made some “natural friendships” with fellow mothers at her children’s schools but mentioned that her friendship with Vardy, wife to footballer Jamie Vardy, had been “unnatural”.“I can tell when someone is trying to force a friendship because of your status,” she said. “I’m very savvy about that.
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