Rebekah Vardy admits maternity ward pap shots were staged as libel trial continues

Rebekah Vardy has admitted she staged her maternity ward paparazzi pictures after giving evidence in High Court.

The WAG admitted that photos taken of her leaving Leicester Maternity Hospital back in 2017 were set up with a photographer.

Coleen Rooney’s barrister David Sherborne quizzed Vardy as she took to the stand in her libel case amid a slew of dramatic revelations.

“I have never hidden the fact I have done staged pictures,” she said.

“I just gave permission for a photographer to be there.

“I wanted to control it.”

Sherborne asked if it would have been more honest to have sat down and posed for photos rather than stage them.

Vardy replied: “I’d just given birth. I’m not sure I was in any position to sit down.”

Sherborne went on to quiz Vardy over naked pregnancy photos of her that appeared in The Sun.

“They were our own images that we had taken,” she said.

Sherborne produced more articles showing Vardy posing with her new baby and stripping down to her bikini on a beach holiday.

Vardy told the court it was `important for me to be able to earn my own money’.

“I never want to rely on my husband. Jamie and I discussed it and there was no problem doing that,” she added.

Rebekah, who is married to footballer Jamie Vardy, had a full day of questioning at the High Court, with a judge hearing a series of allegations that she leaked information to the media.

Towards the middle of the afternoon, she began to sob as she told of the impact the accusation has had.

Evil online ghouls said her newborn should be “put in an incinerator”, while others said Rebekah was a “rat-faced b***h”.

The mum-of-five made more shocking revelations in court this week after she broke down in tears claiming that sick trolls threatened to rape her baby daughter.

In a viral social media post in October 2019, Coleen Rooney, 36, said she had carried out a “sting operation” and accused Mrs Vardy, 40, of leaking “false stories” about her private life to the press.

Rebekah denies leaking stories to the media and is suing Coleen for libel, while Mrs Rooney is defending the claim on the basis her post was “substantially true”.

The warring WAGS have reportedly been set a deadline of April 1 in their ongoing legal case as their £1million High Court libel trial continues.

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