Coleen Rooney broke her silence on the ‘Wagatha Christie’ court case against Rebekah Vardy in a bombshell British Vogue interview last week and also set the record straight on her tumultuous marriage with footballer manager husband Wayne.

After describing their 15-year union as a “battle at times”, Coleen found it “embarrassing and painful” to discuss the scandalous cheating reports that have dogged their relationship, a source told OK! .

“It was really hard for Coleen to open up about her relationship in her Vogue interview. She hates talking about it,” they explained.

“She was really hesitant to address Wayne’s cheating because she finds the scandal very painful and embarrassing – but equally, she hates seeing other people weighing in on her relationship and having their say online about what he used to get up to.

“Coleen knew she’d have to be fully transparent about everything for such a high-profile interview. She knew she’d have to lay all her cards on the table and it was really difficult to rehash everything they went through,” they added.

In 2010 – while at the height of his football career – Wayne faced allegations that he’d cheated on Coleen with two sex workers the previous year, while she was pregnant with their first child.

One of the women, Jenny Thompson, claimed her intimate relations with the former England star had gone on for some time and she and Helen Wood publicly apologised to Coleen, who had married Wayne in 2008.

“We’ve had our ups and downs,” Coleen, 37, admitted to Vogue referring to Wayne’s sex scandals. “Obviously everybody knows. It’s been hard to go through it in the public eye but there has always been love there.

“If the love is gone then, you know, it’s pointless. But if not, you’ve got something to work for.”

“I look at [any] situation we’re in and think, ‘Could we move forward from that? Is it worth moving forward from that?’ I don’t just give up,” she added. “But another thing is we’ve never backed away from it. We own it.

“I remember having a conversation about this with someone and I said, ‘Well, do you know what your wife gets up to every day and night? At least I know what my husband’s doing!’ It mightn’t be good, but I know. People lie to themselves.”

In 2004, Wayne admitted to soliciting prostitutes while dating then-girlfriend Coleen, and confessed, “I was young and stupid. It was at a time when I was very young and immature and before I had settled down with Coleen.”

In the Prime Video documentary Rooney, which aired last year, Wayne, also 37, apologised for his past indiscretions.

“When you’re in the wrong place and there’s alcohol involved, then you’re going to make bad decisions and you’re going to have to suffer the consequences,” he said.

“That’s what happens. It doesn’t take away any of my love for Coleen. I held my hands up and we worked through it.”

And although our source explained that Coleen – who has sons Kai, 13, Klay, 10, Kit, seven, and five-year-old Cass with Wayne – was “terrified she might have said too much” during her tell-all chat, they said she made the right decision.

“She was really glad she relayed everything in the end. She found the entire interview refreshing,” they said. “It took a weight off her shoulders.”

Coleen also opened up in the Vogue interview about her 2019 exposé of fellow WAG Rebekah Vardy – who she accused of selling fake stories about the Rooneys to The Sun – as well as the subsequent libel case.

And in the days after the magazine interview went live, Rebekah – who lost last year’s highly publicised trial, during which Coleen was awarded up to £3 million – took the opportunity to fire another shot at her.

Rebekah, 41, whose husband Jamie Vardy is Wayne’s former England teammate, pointedly told a fan on Instagram, “I wouldn’t put up with my husband sleeping with hookers, end of! No excuses.”

But our source said Coleen is rising above those comments and is unwilling to play the role of warring wife any longer.

“She found Rebekah’s silly dig laughable,” they said. “She knew she’d retaliate in some way, but now everything is in the open, she doesn’t care what anyone else has to say – especially Rebekah.”

They also say that the Rooneys – who celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary in June – are now more loved-up than ever, with Coleen’s Vogue interview giving the couple the clean slate they needed to move on.

“She’s so grateful for everything Wayne did to help her during her court case – he was a real shoulder for her to lean on,” the source said.

“She wouldn’t have got through the trial without him. They’re so in love, so strong and it’s onwards and upwards for them from now on.”

See the full feature in the September issue of British Vogue, available via digital download and on newsstands from Tuesday 22 August.

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