‘Betrayed’ Rebekah Vardy says agent may be to blame for leaking Coleen Rooney stories in sensational twist to Wagatha Christie libel battleMel Evans

Rebekah Vardy’s latest statement is a twist in the Wagatha saga (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/REX/Shutterstock)

In the latest pre-trial hearing in the Wagatha Christie, libel battle, Rebekah Vardy has suggested her agent may be to blame for leaking stories about Coleen Rooney.

Rooney accused fellow WAG Vardy of leaking ‘false stories’ about her private life to the media in October 2019 after carrying out a months-long ‘sting operation’, before being dubbed ‘Wagatha Christie’.

She said she planted three stories about her travelling to Mexico to ‘see what this gender selection is all about’, returning to TV and the basement flooding in her new house.

Rooney publicly claimed her fellow footballer’s wife shared the fake stories she had posted on her personal Instagram account with The Sun newspaper. Vardy, who is married to Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, denies the accusations and is suing Rooney for libel.

In a new witness statement shared today, Vardy appeared to suggest agent Caroline Watt was the source of leaks, and claimed she feels ‘betrayed’ that her ‘close friend and confidante’ may have been responsible.

According to reports, Vardy states: ‘The idea that my close friend and confidante would betray me in this way seems unbelievable to me and almost impossible to accept.

Coleen Rooney accused Vardy of leaking stories to the press (Picture: Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)

‘I have thought about this very carefully. I find it very hard to accept that Caroline would deceive me in this way. I do not know what to think.

‘I do not know what role Caroline played in relation to those articles which appear to come from Coleen’s private Instagram, but I have to accept that it is possible that she may have had some form of involvement that I don’t know about.’

Watt previously withdrew from the case and will not give evidence on account of her ‘fragile’ mental health.

In her statement, Vardy adds, according to the Mirror: ‘I am devastated by all this. Not only have I been libelled by Coleen but I have had to face allegations that my close friend has been involved with this, and she is in such a fragile state that I can’t even address it with her properly.

‘All I know is that Caroline finds discussing the case seriously detrimental to her health, and that she has maintained to me that it was not her, and I now cannot press her at all for any further explanation in terms of the new developments.’

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