Court bombshells that gripped the nation
Revelations about the Rooneys marriage were made public
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The libel battle between Coleen and Rebekah played out over seven days at the High Court in London in May, with a number of dramatic revelations heard and rocking the world of showbiz.
Celebrity names such as Peter Andre and the late Sarah Harding were discussed during proceedings, alongside intimate details of Wayne and Coleen’s marriage over the years being exposed.
When giving evidence, Coleen told the court how she and Wayne temporarily split in 2017, shortly after the former England captain was stopped by police for drink-driving with party-goer Laura Simpson in Cheshire.
Discussing the impact of a leaked picture of herself and Wayne at home together – taken during the split – Coleen admitted the articles surrounding her marriage impacted their relationship.
Giving evidence, she said: “With the pyjama post, at the time there had been a situation which was wrongdoing by my husband, but I was in a vulnerable situation.
“I didn’t know how my marriage was going to work out. I didn’t know what was going on in that relationship so we agreed to work things out.
“I had not settled on this. Is it that we are getting back together?
“At this time there was speculation I was back at the house as I was spending a lot of time at my parents house.
On day one of the trial, Rebekah was immediately quizzed about past comments she made about her sexual encounter with Peter Andre to a newspaper.
She spoke to the News Of The World about ‘having had sex with Peter Andre ‘ and the court heard how she said in the 2004 story that he was hung like a ‘miniature chipolata’
Rebekah said the Mysterious Girl singer had shaved all the hair off his body and ‘drooled like a slobbery dog’ when he kissed her.
The WAG told how she had sex with Andre while she was married to her ex-husband and said it was something she ‘deepy regretted’.
Since then, Peter spoke out about the article and the comments being brought up again after 18 years.
“You’ve got to understand, what’s even worse is it’s brought up in a High Court, and the lawyer is bringing it up… and it’s brought up again. And the only one that sits there and takes hit after hit about it is me,” he said on social media at the time.