Coleen Rooney has said she cannot forgive Rebekah Vardy for her role in the Wagatha Christie scandal.
Speaking to British Vogue, she said the legal case was a “horrible experience” – and it was “painful” watching Vardy on the stand.
And she added she cannot bring herself to forgive Vardy for leaking stories about her to the media.
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She told the magazine: “I’m a forgive and forget person, I can’t be bothered with things going on and on. But this is obviously totally different.”
Vardy, the wife of Leicester City striker Jamie, lost her libel case against Coleen, the wife of former England star Wayne, last year.
In the trial, Vardy sued for defamation after she had been accused of leaking three fake stories from Rooney’s private Instagram account to a newspaper.
The drama started four years ago when Rooney resorted to online sleuthing – which involved posting fabricated stories and restricting them to only Vardy, whom she already suspected.
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The newspaper then published the fake stories and Rooney identified the culprit with the now infamous words posted on Instagram: “It’s ………. Rebekah Vardy’s account.”
Rooney told Vogue about the build-up to her bombshell tweet: “In the night I started thinking about what I was going to do. I just wanted these stories to stop.
“So I started writing what I wanted to say and then the next morning I put it out there.
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“That was the start of something that I would never have expected.”
She said she didn’t tell any of her friends or family what she planned to do and talked about the “surreal” experience of coming face-to-face with Vardy in court.
She said: “It was so weird that first day, actually sitting on a bench together … It was so difficult in that courtroom … especially watching her on the stand. It was quite painful. I felt uneasy.”
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Speaking about her prior relationship with Vardy, Rooney claimed that the two were never close.
She said: “I felt like she was in the same world as me. She was in the public eye. I thought she would be protective over that kind of thing.
“We could associate because our husbands had played for England together. But she doesn’t live around here. She wasn’t a friend. I’ve never socialised with her.”
Vardy was ordered to pay Rooney’s legal costs after losing.
Coleen was speaking ahead of an upcoming Disney+ documentary about the case.
The September issue of British Vogue is available via digital download and on newsstands from Tuesday, August 22
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