Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy are being urged to call off their Wagatha Christie legal battle after the Johnny Depp case proved there are no winners in public spats.
The two WAGs are set to go head-to-head against each other in their own defamation duel after Coleen, 34, accused Rebekah, 38, of flogging stories about her private life.
The pair have been unable to settle the row in private and now face a courtroom showdown which TV giants Netflix are considering turning into an OJ Simpson-style documentary.
But – following a series of shocking revelations in Depp’s libel battle – advisers are desperate for the footballers’ wives to bury the hatchet to avoid a public airing of intimate details of their lives which could damage the reputations of them both.
In the first nine days of Depp’s case the Pirates Of The Caribbean star has admitted taking ‘every drug known to man’ by the age of 14, giving his daughter cannabis at 13 and drinking a pint of red wine for breakfast.
Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy are being urged to call off their Wagatha Christie legal battle (Image: PA)
As well as accusing him of a string of assaults while high on booze and drugs his actress ex-wife Amber Heard has accused him drinking himself sick, passing out on the toilet and lying in his ‘own s***’.
Meanwhile the Aquaman actress has been accused of cutting off Depp’s finger when she threw a vodka bottle at him, defecating in the bed of their penthouse and blaming it on the dog and stealing a rape victim’s story as her own.
Depp’s lifelong pal has accused her of using ‘phoney ballony’ photos to ‘extort and blackmail’ the star into paying her a $7million divorce settlement while she was allegedly having an affair with SpaceX and Tesla multi-billionaire Elon Musk.
Depp is suing the NGN group after they published a 2018 article which branded him as a “wife-beater” – a claim he denies (Image: AFP via Getty Images)
Hollywood bigwigs said win or lose Heard, 34, may never work again after being dubbed ‘Amber Turd’ over the bed poop which Depp wanted DNA tested.
“No-one comes back from that – no matter how beautiful you are,” said one film producer.
“I can see the defaced movie posters now.”
Meanwhile, Depp, 57, who has reportedly been dumped from Disney’s sixth Pirates movie, may struggle to find future roles in children’s films which previously made him millions.
Actress Amber Heard has been seen leaving the High Court in London (Image: PA)
The wife of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, 33, and Coleen, whose husband is England and Manchester United’s record goalscorer Wayne Rooney, 34, could end up fighting it out in the same High Court in London.
Rebekah wants £1million in damages claiming her fellow WAG libelled her when she publicly outed her as a story-leaker on social media.
In a move straight out of a whodunnit Coleen claimed she set a trap by deliberately posting a false tale on her private Instagram account to which only Rebekah would have had access – and it was later published.
The two WAGs are set to go head-to-head against each other (Image: Getty Images)
Rebekah vehemently denies she was the culprit and has lodged papers with the Queen’s Bench Division of the High Court.
But a source familiar with the bust-up said: “It is becoming increasingly clear that apart from the lawyers there will be no winners if this case comes to court.
“Both Coleen and Becky have been warned they risk having parts of their past dug out and put on show.
“Friends have compared the situation to the Johnny Depp trial which has seen day after day of appalling publicity.
“But although Coleen appears open-minded to trying to find some sort of resolution Becky won’t budge.”
The source said Rebekah wants Coleen to say sorry in public.
“The apology is a red line she won’t move from,” they added.
Depp is suing UK publisher News Group Newspapers Ltd and journalist Dan Wootton for libel over an article which called him a ‘wife beater’.
Heard is due to start giving evidence on Monday.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
