Rebekah Vardy U-turn as she 'admits' agent could have leaked Coleen Rooney stories

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Rebekah Vardy appears to now allegedly believe her agent could have leaked stories about Coleen Rooney.The Mirror reports, in a twist in the Wagatha Christie High Court battle, the court heard this came from a second witness statement by Rebekah.

The claim was made by Mrs Rooney' barrister David Sherbourne about Caroline Watts at a pre-trial hearing."Now Mrs Vardy's case changed where she believes it may well be Miss Watts who was the person who leaked this," Mr Sherbourne told the High Court.He said this was a "radical change", as Mrs Vardy had previously said "Caroline Watt is not the source.""She says 'How awful it is to be betrayed'", Mr Sherbourne said, describing admissions in her second witness statement.However Vardy insisted that Watt continued to deny being behind any leaks from Coleen’s Instagram account.In written submissions, Mr Sherborne said that Mrs Vardy’s new statement “suggests Ms Watt was the source of the leak but claims that (Mrs Vardy) ‘did not authorise or condone her'”.“It now appears…that she too ‘believes’ that Ms Watt is the source,” Mr Sherborne added.The barrister continued: “The collapse of Mrs Vardy’s case over the last day has been remarkable.“As of the evening of April 27 2022, in an abrupt change of position to her pleaded case since the outset, Mrs Vardy appears now to accept Mrs Rooney’s case: that Caroline Watt, Mrs Vardy’s close friend and PR, was the conduit by which stories from the defendant’s private Instagram account were leaked to The Sun through her access via Rebekah Vardy’s account.”Mr Sherborne told the court: “It has become undeniably obvious that Ms Watt is the source and Mrs Vardy, true to form says ‘it wasn’t me, I didn’t realise and I didn’t know anything about what