Coleen Rooney breaks silence after Wagatha Christie court ruling

Coleen Rooney has broken her silence after the came to a close. after the six-year Wagatha row.

Now, has posted to her Stories in the aftermath of the ruling. Coleen wrote: "The ruling yesterday in my favour finally brings this claim to an end, it's a relief and brings closure for my family and I."

She went on: "Throughout this long process, I am grateful that judgements have consistently gone my way. However, as I have always maintained, this claim did not need to be made or run for as long as it did. The time and money should have been put to better use.

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"I want to thank my legal representatives, management, friends and family for their guidance and constant support. Thanks also to the public and many well-wishers who have been in touch with such kind messages."

Coleen concluded by saying: "This episode is not something that I ever wanted in my life. However, I am thankful for the way my family and team have dealt with it. We look forward to moving on with our lives."

, the wife of former footballer Wayne took to social media to reveal that she had secretly been plotting a sting operation after a string of stories shared on her private social media had been leaked to the media. The Liverpudlian narrowed down accounts with access to her posts in order to discover which account was leaking the information.

In 2019, Coleen took to social media to reveal: "It was..... Rebekah Vardy's account," after she had blocked her followers from seeing her Stories. The posts included a fake story that she was heading to Mexico for gender selection, as well as eyeing up a stint on .

After Coleen's "reveal" of Rebekah, the wife of footballer Jamie Vardy strongly denied the allegations and implied that her Instagram account had been hacked.

Rebekah later launched a defamation case against her former pal Coleen for her social media post which she claimed had defamed her. However, a hearing at The Royal Courts of Justice on Tuesday this week heard that Rebekah must pay almost £1.2million.

A specialist costs court has previously been told that Coleen , the wife of former England striker Wayne, ran up a legal bill totalling more than £1.8 million after she successfully defended Vardy's High Court claim in 2022. In written submissions for a hearing on Tuesday, Mrs Vardy's barrister, Juliet Wells, said that Mrs Rooney's total legal bill of £1,833,906.89 "has now been settled at £1,190,000, being c.£1,125,000 plus interest of c.£65.000".

Ms Wells continued that Mrs Rooney is now claiming "assessment costs" of more than £300,000, which she described as "grossly disproportionate" and should be capped at "no more than £100,000". The full amount of the assessment costs will be determined at the hearing before Costs Judge Mark Whalan, who said he was "pleased" that the two sides had come to a "commercial accommodation".

Both Rebekah and Coleen were absent from the remote hearing.

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