WAGatha Christie ‘changed Coleen Rooney and her marriage to Wayne’, expert claims

Rebekah Vardy launched a £1million libel case against Coleen Rooney over her now-famous WAGatha Christie post, and according to an expert, the trauma has been life-altering

They've been together since they were 16, and over two turbulent decades, Coleen Rooney has endured more than most.

Like a cat with nine lives, her former Everton star husband, Wayne Rooney, has had more second chances than he's had hot dinners thanks to Coleen's seemingly endless capacity for forgiveness.

From sleeping with prostitutes, including the infamous 'Auld Slapper', to getting caught drink driving after 'snogging' a woman he met in a club, it's fair to say Wayne has given Coleen a rough ride.

The Sunday Mirror reported in 2004 that a teenage Wayne had cheated on his then-girlfriend Coleen with a 21-year-old prostitute called Charlotte Glover.

A month later, it was claimed that he’d paid at least 10 late-night visits to a £45-a-time brothel in Liverpool where he’d slept with Gina McCarrick, then 37, as well as Patricia Tierney, a 48-year-old grandmother nicknamed the ‘Auld Slapper’ who wore a rubber catsuit.

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She later denied these claims, while Wayne went on to admit to sleeping with unnamed prostitutes.

He said: “Foolish as it now seems I did on occasions visit massage parlours and prostitutes.

“I now regret it deeply and hope people may understand that it was the sort of mistake you make when you are young and stupid. It was at a time when I was very young and immature.”

In July 2009, a month before now wife Coleen gave birth, £1,200-a-night prostitute Jenny Thompson claims Wayne cheated on Coleen again.

Heartbroken Coleen moved out of their family home and in with her parents after the allegations came out.

At the time Wayne said: “My life is in ruins… I’ve been so stupid”, but Coleen decided to take him back.

Shortly after the claims about Rooney’s trysts with Jenny emerged, the Sunday Mirror reported in 2011 that he’d had a threesome with her and another prostitute, Helen Wood.

Coleen forgave her husband once again – and gave birth to sons Klay in 2013 and Kit in 2016.

Helen wood allegedly had an affair with Wayne

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The footballer’s long-suffering wife was then left fuming again in September 2017 when he was caught in a car with Laura Simpson.

Police pulled them up and arrested Wayne for driving the 29-year-old’s car while drunk. He was banned from driving and made to perform community service.

The mum-of-one - who he met at the Symposium bar in Wilmslow, Cheshire - claimed they'd had a “kiss and cuddle”.

Coleen, who was pregnant with their fourth child, moved to her parents' before going back to the couple’s home two days later.

Wayne Rooney was caught drink driving in Laura Simpson's car

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Wayne later apologised, stating: “Sometimes you make mistakes. I held my hands up. I made a mistake.

“I knew straight away I had made a stupid mistake and I have to move on.

“It is not nice. I’ve got children and it is not nice for them to see that and I try to move on and learn from it which I feel I am doing.”

And it was at Coleen's WAGatha Christie trial with Rebekah Vardy in May that she revealed she and Wayne did indeed split after that episode.

Speaking about a picture of Wayne in bed with their kids that was leaked to The Sun from her private Instagram account, she explained how she hadn't wanted it made public because she still wasn't sure whether she would take him back.

Coleen and Wayne are parents to four boys

"I was in a vulnerable situation. There had been some wrongdoing by my husband," the mum-of-four told the court.

"I was spending a lot of time at my parents' house. I didn't know how my marriage was going to work out. Me and Wayne were trying to figure out our relationship and where we were going.

"But I didn't want people to know that... I hadn't settled on 'This is it, we are getting back together.'"

Of course, they did end up reuniting and Wayne was by his wife's side for every second of the nine-day hearing at London's High Court.

Taking to the stand, Wayne told how the case had changed Coleen as a wife and a mother.

Coleen and Wayne put on a united front at court

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"For me and my wife, we don’t want to be in this court,” he said.

“I’ve watched my wife over the last two and a half years really struggle with everything, becoming a different mother, a different wife.

“It’s been very traumatic for my wife.”

However, analysing their court appearances, body language expert Judi James said she that while she saw little sign of connection between Wayne and his wife, she did see a whole new side of Coleen.

Instead of 'long-suffering', Judi believes that the trauma has transformed Coleen into the leader - the one emboldened by her experience who now holds all the cards.

"Coleen would often arrive looking forceful, confident and determined, striding (even with her surgical boot) into the courthouse ahead of her husband rather than welded to his side like the Vardys," Judi told The Mirror.

"She looked very much the strong, independent woman with no need of visible support or reassurance from her husband, who often walked behind and apart from her, once even dressed in a very buttoned-up mac and wearing a facial expression hewn out of stone."

But despite their smiles in some pictures, Judi believes they were more about 'victory' than 'shared affection'.

She continued: "Their smiles in some of these photos do look a little rigid rather than like-minded mirroring. Smiling after a day in court will often signal victory and even scare the opposition and these do look more bravado-based than a shared moment of affectionate happiness."

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