Coleen Rooney has finally spoken out on the scandal surrounding her husband Wayne visiting prostitutes as a teen, revealing the shame she felt when she heard what he had done.
The couple have been together since they were at school and share four children, but Wayne has been at the centre of a number of cheating scandals during their relationship – most famously, when he was just 16.
Former England footballer Wayne, now 38, hit headlines as a teen when it emerged he had visited a massage parlour in Liverpool and had sex with a 37 year old and a 48 year old grandmother.
Coleen, 37, who has stayed loyal to her husband who she married in 2008 through stories of his cheating, has always kept quiet on the incident in their teens but has now opened up on how she really felt in her memoir, My Account.
Writing about the moment that Wayne told her what he had done, she said: "The full story was that when he was sixteen, Wayne had visited prostitutes in a Liverpool massage parlour. When Wayne sat me down and told me it was true and that the story was about to break in the national press I was confused and hurt. I couldn't even speak to him.
"More than that, I felt ashamed."
Coleen wrote that she had felt overwhelmed by the number of people around her giving their opinions and described it as being like "some horrible dream".
She added as she was just a teenager herself trying to deal with the horrifying news, she was "upset and confused" as she struggled to decide what to do, but decided not to make a decision while she was angry.
But she admitted that it left her questioning her feelings for Wayne and said the situation was "not a good look".
Eventually, Coleen had decided to forgive Wayne after sitting down with him to hear his side of the story, although she said there were plenty of "screaming matches" as they tried to find a way to continue their future together.
In the book, she explains she decided to take into account that the news had broken a couple of years after Wayne's infidelity and that she had taken the view that they had both grown up since it happened.
But she added that Wayne's drinking had been a problem in many of their rows over the years, saying that him going out and getting drunk during troubled times would make things worse.
She added that she would have found it more difficult to forgive a long-running affair, saying: "If you're dealing with something stupid done in the heat of the moment involving alcohol, it might be fixable. If love, emotions and ongoing deception are involved then it's a different story."
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