Rebekah Vardy has opened up about the “extremely calculated, cold and menacing” call she had with Coleen Rooney to confront her about the now-infamous Wagatha Christie Tweet. In a witness statement to London’s High Court the 40-year-old, who married Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy in 2016, also claimed Rooney’s sting operation was a “ploy” to “generate sympathy for herself”.
Rooney, the wife of former England star Wayne Rooney, publicly accused her fellow WAG of sharing fake stories she uploaded to a private Instagram story in October 2019. The posts, which went on to make stories in The Sun, included the 36-year-old travelling to Mexico for a “gender selection” procedure and about a flood in her basement.
In her statement, Vardy said she was in Dubai at the time of the viral post and was alerted to it by her agent. She said: “[Rooney] didn’t answer immediately and then called me back off an unknown number. I felt like she was recording the whole call.
