Rebekah Vardy has broken her silence in her first TV interview since losing her libel battle against Coleen Rooney. The pair faced each other in court three years after Mrs Rooney said she had carried out a months-long “sting operation” and accused Mrs Vardy of leaking “false stories” about her private life to the press.
The wife of former England star Wayne Rooney publicly claimed Mrs Vardy’s account was the source behind three stories in The Sun newspaper featuring fake details she had posted on her private Instagram stories. Mrs Vardy, who is married to Leicester striker Jamie Vardy, denied leaking stories to the media and sued her fellow footballer’s wife for libel, while Mrs Rooney defended the claim on the basis her post was “substantially true”.
Both women attended a week-long trial at the High Court in London in May then in a much-anticipated ruling on Friday (July 28) Mrs Justice Steyn found in Mrs Rooney’s favour and dismissed the claim against her. The judge said it was “likely” that Mrs Vardy’s agent at the time, Caroline Watt, “undertook the direct act” of passing the information to The Sun.
