Coleen Rooney has explained why she stayed with husband Wayne after learning of his nights spent with sex workers.
The 35-year-old, who has been married for more than 13 years and in a relationship with the footballer since she was 16, talked about how Wayne seeing other women, who he paid for sex, pushed their relationship to breaking point.
As a teenager, stories emerged in 2004 saying Wayne, who was an Everton star at the time, had visited a brothel multiple times with pals on drunken nights out.
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After he married Coleen in 2008, further stories emerged in 2010 about a threesome with escorts Jenny Thompson and Helen Wood which happened the previous year, as well as date nights out with Jenny, according to the Mirror.
There were rows after Wayne’s cheating, but mum-of-four Coleen ultimately stood by the ex-England striker and they are now trying to draw a line under the incidents in a new Amazon documentary.
When asked why she stayed with him, Coleen said: “When you’re making them decisions, you’ve got to focus on what you want, because you have so many people saying different things to you.
“Obviously I listen to the people that matter to me, my mum and dad, they’ve always given me a positive outlook on things.
“There’s nothing that we can’t deal with, and that’s my way. We’re in a situation, let’s sit down, let’s see what we can do, and can you make it work? And we have."
She said she and Wayne are "not the lovey-dovey type anyway", but that they have a laugh and "work well together".
Coleen said she partly stayed with him for the children, but that they also still love each other.
She continued: "Hopefully he’s learnt and he doesn’t get himself into any of them horrible situations again. But it’s happened and I’ve got to live with it, and if I couldn’t cope with living with it, I would’ve ended the relationship.”
In the new Amazon documentary, Rooney, Wayne's wife bravely tells of her anger and shame following Wayne’s antics as a youngster on drunken nights out.
Coleen said Wayne has a history of hanging out with people that "aren't good for him", and that adding alcohol into the mix causes things to escalate.
She added: "It’s not a good thing for Wayne to be unsupervised."
Wayne admits he "put himself in the wrong place".
The 36-year-old said: “I put myself in the wrong place. And when you’re in the wrong place and there’s alcohol involved, then you’re going to make bad decisions.
“And you’re going to have to suffer and deal with consequences. That’s what happens. It doesn’t take away any of my love for Coleen.
“It happened, it was a wrong decision to make. I held my hands up and that’s it, we worked through it.”
Later in the Amazon documentary Coleen appears alongside Wayne as they put the finishing touches to the new house they have been designing which will be home to them and sons Kai, 12, Klay, eight, Kit, six, and Cass, who turns four next week.
A decade has passed since Wayne was away from home with escorts, and when they discuss it again stood next to each other, it appears time has helped to heal some of the pain it caused.
When asked if she had forgiven him, Coleen adds: “I wouldn’t be standing here if I hadn’t forgiven him.
“Life goes on. I’ve not accepted… It’s not acceptable what he’s done, but it’s happened and that was in the stage of life we were in at the time but we’ve moved on.
“I forgive him, but it wasn’t acceptable. But no, if it comes up we talk about it, I haven’t got the anger that I did at the time.”
The second wave of marriage problems came when in July 2009, a month before Coleen gave birth.
Jenny Thompson claimed Rooney cheated on Coleen again and she was paid £1,200-a-night.
She said he had used untraceable pay-as-you-go mobile phones to arrange at least seven liaisons.
In the Amazon film, Wayne said: “When these things have happened, we’ve sat down and I’ve explained what’s happened.
“It’s not nice, it’s not a nice thing to have to do. It won’t happen again.
"I don’t want it to happen again. And for us to get through it, it’s tough ... but it does make you stronger as well."
Rooney launches on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, February 11
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