Coleen Rooney has claimed in day five of her court case against Rebekah Vardy that she lied when she told her she didn’t even realise she had blocked her on Instagram.
In the libel trial in London dubbed “Wagatha Christie”, Rooney claimed she became suspicious of the wife of Leicester City’s striker Jamie Vardy’s motives for befriending her.
The wife of former England star Wayne Rooney said she at first blocked Vardy from her private Instagram account.
She said she felt it was “suspicious” when Vardy messaged her a month later asking why she had blocked her.
“We are not good friends apart from the odd message now and again,” Rooney claimed.
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“If that was me in her shoes I would probably just not message the person.
“Personally I would not go out of my way to say, have you done something to offend you. I found that suspicious.”
Rebekah’s lawyer Hugh Tomlinson QC asked why Rooney lied in her response to Vardy’s message.
Rooney said she told her she “didn’t even know” she had blocked her and suggested it must have been “the kids”.
“It was a cover up for what I was investigating,” she claimed.
“I had suspicions that Mrs Vardy could be doing this from her account. I did tell a fib.”
Tomlinson suggested “the right thing to do” would have been to confront Vardy with her suspicions.
Rooney then explained: “At the time I didn’t think she would tell the truth if I confronted her.
“It did not feel like she was being truthful to me.”
Rooney claimed that Vardy had told her “a lot of lies”.
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Rooney also claimed she told her publicist Rachel Monk she was suspicious of Vardy.
She said Vardy had been “fame hungry” at the 2018 World Cup and had been “speaking to the press”.
Coleen claimed her publicist Rachel Monk told her to “delete her off your Insta”.
Tomlinson asked why she had not done that.
Rooney claimed she had already tried it but Vardy had come back on to her demanding to know why she had blocked her.
Tomlinson asked: “You wanted to trap her?”
Rooney responded: “No, not trap. I just wanted to find out who was doing this to me. I thought if I went public with whoever it was it would stop.”
Tomlinson asked why she had not told anyone about her “sting operation”.
Rooney said: “Because I don’t like to do something if I’m not 100% sure myself. So I didn’t want to mention it to anyone if there was the smallest little bit of doubt. I felt I didn’t need to tell anyone.”
When Tomlinson probed her about why she had not told husband Wayne, she said: “One thing I don’t do is put my troubles or worries on someone else.
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“I try to deal with things in silence myself until I need to.”
Rooney said she used a “hide my story” function on Instagram to ensure only Vardy’s account could view fake stories she was posting.
The stories were hidden from her other 300 followers on her private account, she said.
Rooney claimed the “gender selection story” – one of her fake tales – was “only seen by one person”.
Tomlinson suggested sometimes “things go missing” by accident on social media and asked why she therefore thinks Vardy’s missing evidence was a deliberate cover up.
Rooney added: “I feel that there were a lot of occasions when things went missing not just from Mrs Vardy and Caroline Watt.
“I do understand things can happen. But not that much.”
Vardy denies the claims made against her.
The trial continues.
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