Rebekah Vardy said she “wanted paying” for leaking information about a footballer who had been arrested, a court has been told.
The 40-year-old took the stand on the second day of her libel trial against Coleen Rooney, who has accused Ms Vardy of leaking “false stories” about her to the press.
Ms Rooney’s barrister, David Sherborne, asked Ms Vardy about messages with her agent Caroline Watt, including some about Danny Drinkwater - a footballer who was arrested for crashing his car while over the legal drink limit in 2019.
Ms Vardy messaged her agent saying she had a story about Danny Drinkwater being arrested and said he had crashed his car with two girls in it while drink-driving, the court heard. “He’s only just been let out of the cells last night!” Ms Vardy wrote.
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