has told the about her marriage issues after her husband ’s arrest for drink-driving.
The TV star is currently with fellow WAG , who is suing her for libel over accusations she L***ed stories to the press in what has been dubbed the .
Mrs Rooney is now giving evidence in the trial, following Mrs Vardy’s in which she insisted she did not leak stories to the press (and said she ).
Starting her evidence on Friday, Mrs Rooney alleged that private information about had been L***ed to The Sun newspaper during a ‘vulnerable’ stage in her life.
On September 1 2017, Mr Rooney was arrested for drink-driving, with another woman beside him in the car at the time.
He later received a two-year driving ban and was ordered to perform 100 hours of unpaid work after pleading guilty to the charge.
On Friday, the High Court was told Mrs Rooney took the couple’s four children and went to stay with her parents following the incident, with the star admitting she ‘didn’t know’ if their relationship would continue.
‘I was in a vulnerable situation,’ she told the court.
‘I didn’t know how my marriage was going to work out, whether I was going on with my relationship.’
Mrs Rooney said that the couple later tried to work out their difficulties privately, and did not want the public to know about their potential reconciliation at the time.
In late October and early November 2017, Mrs Rooney posted two pictures of her children – one on her public Instagram account and a second on her private account – with only the second photo containing Mr Rooney.
Mrs Rooney told the High Court the photos of the family in matching pyjamas were part of a campaign to support Alder Hey children’s hospital in Liverpool.
She said that despite keeping the photo with Mr Rooney to her ‘close circle’ on her private account, where only certain people could view it, a story was later published in The Sun.
Mrs Rooney said in her witness statement that she was ‘ comfortable enough to upload the photograph of Wayne to my private Instagram account,’ but made a ‘conscious decision’ not to upload it anywhere public ‘because of the difficulties between us at the time’.
She later told the court: ‘That was information that I was happy to share in the private group… but I didn’t want the public to know that.’
However, she claimed that on November 1, the day she posted the private photograph which included Mr Rooney, an article was published on The Sun describing the picture.
Mrs Rooney said in her written evidence that she was ‘really hurt’ by the leak, ‘particularly because I felt as though someone that I trusted was betraying me at a very difficult time.’
In October 2019, Mrs Rooney took to social media where she accused Vardy of leaking ‘false stories’ about her private life to the media, after she said she carried out a months-long ‘sting operation’.
She claimed her fellow footballer’s wife shared three fake stories she’d planted on her personal Instagram account, that only Mrs Vardy’s account was able to see.
These fake stories included Mrs Rooney travelling to Mexico for a ‘gender selection’ procedure, her planning to return to TV, as well as the basement flooding at her home.
Mrs Rooney wrote on social media at the time: ‘I have saved and screenshotted all the original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them.
‘It’s ………. Rebekah Vardy’s account.’
Under English defamation law, the burden of proof now will be on Mrs Rooney to prove that her post was ‘substantially true’.
Mrs Rooney is expected to continue her evidence until Monday afternoon, with Mr Rooney due to step into the witness box on Tuesday.
The trial continues.
