Wayne Rooney has opened up about how he tried to woo his childhood sweetheart with poetry.
Coleen, who has been married for over 13 years and together with the footballer since she was 16, admits the former England player is a born "charmer".
Upcoming documentary Rooney charts their relationship which began very young.
"I think I was about 11 or 12. I knew I wanted to go out with her," Wayne said.
"I knew I wanted to marry her. And I said to her at the time, ‘When we grow up we’re gonna get married and you’re gonna have our kids.’
"She was looking at me like, ‘Yeah, good one’."
But Coleen couldn't resist Wayne's charms for long and they were soon an item.
Coleen says: "I always remember he used to hang around by where I lived and every now and again you’d get his mum shouting up and down the street, ‘Wayne!’.
"I am best friends with Wayne’s cousin Claire. My dad and Claire’s dad ran the local boxing gym. Our families have grew up together.
"He’s a charmer, growing up that’s how he won me over.
"The more I said no, the more he said, ‘I will one day, I will get that date’."
But it wasn't plain sailing for the couple as Coleen recalled she cried every week after moving into her first big house with Wayne.
The cuople moved away from the council estate in Croxteth where they grew up once Wayne became a success at Everton.
But life at the £900k mansion on Millionaire's Row in Formby wasn't all it cracked up to be.
"The thought of it was all fine and great. But then obviously you (Wayne) were away every weekend," she said.
A tearful Coleen would be left alone in upmarket Formby when Wayne went to play football. They then moved to Manchester soon after that.
"I used to leave my mum’s and cry all the way home to mine," she said.
"It was all of a sudden, it was a matter of months. Everything just happened. We’ve always grown up quicker than what we were meant to, I think."
The highly anticipated documentary film Rooney launches on Prime Video on Friday 11th February.
