Coleen Rooney told the High Court that it was her "last resort" to send the viral “It’s ………. Rebekah Vardy’s account” post to a tabloid newspaper.
The post went viral in 2019, with Mrs Rooney accusing Rebekah Vardy, wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy of leaking “false stories” about her private life to the press after she carried out what she called a ' sting operation '. Mrs Vardy denies that she was leaking stories to the media and is now is suing Mrs Rooney for libel, while Mrs Rooney is defending the claim on the basis her post was “substantially true”.
On Friday afternoon, Mrs Rooney be was questioned by Mrs Vardy’s barrister Hugh Tomlinson QC as she started giving evidence in the Royal Courts of Justice. When asked what she aimed to achieve with the post, she said: "I wasn’t achieving anything, what I wanted was to stop the person who was leaking my private information to The S*n.”
