Rebekah Vardy has claimed she wasn’t serious about wanting to get paid for a story about Danny Drinkwater’s drink drive crash.The WAG told London’s High Court today (May 11) that selling the story was a “fleeting thought” amid the ongoing libel trial against Coleen Rooney.Rooney has accused Vardy of leaking “false stories” about her personal life to the media, after a months-long “sting operation” to discover the supposed culprit.Vardy is seeking legal action against the claims.In court, Vardy was asked by Rooney’s barrister David Sherborne about text messages sent to her agent Caroline Watt about Danny Drinkwater’s arrest in 2019.Messages sent on April 8, 2019, regarding the former Leicester and England player Danny Drinkwater’s arrest.She messaged: “Story…..
Danny Drinkwater arrested.”Watt messaged back: “For what?”Vardy’s response read: “Crashed his car drunk with 2 girls in it. Both in hospital with 2 broken ribs.
He has been only just let out of the cells. I want paying for this.”Sherborne quizzed her on whether she wanted paying for the leak.She replied: “It was a fleeting thought and I did not consider it any more after I wrote it.“It was a fleeting, a fleeting comment, and something I probably considered at the time.
And that was it.”She said she wanted the information to be in the public domain as she is “deeply affected” by drink driving.Vardyy added: “It was something terrible.
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