Rooney speaks of 'relief' at end of Wagatha legal saga

Coleen Rooney has spoken of her "relief" aft the latest portion of her ineligible conflict with Rebekah Vardy came to an end, saying she looks guardant "to moving on" with her life.

On Tuesday, a justice said Mrs Vardy indispensable wage much than £1.4m of Mrs Rooney's ineligible costs aft the pair's "Wagatha Christie" libel trial.

Mrs Rooney, who won that High Court conflict successful 2022, posted connected societal media that the caller ruling "finally brings closure for my household and I".

But she added: "This assertion did not request to beryllium made oregon tally for arsenic agelong arsenic it did. The clip and wealth should person been enactment to amended use".

This week's ruling means a outgo of £1.19m indispensable beryllium made to Mrs Rooney, positive an further £212,266 successful "assessment costs".

The justice noted determination had been "extraordinary expenditure of costs" by the parties, and told them: "I bash mean it erstwhile I accidental that I anticipation that this is the extremity of a agelong and unhappy road."

On Wednesday, Mrs Rooney wrote: "The ruling yesterday successful my favour yet brings this assertion to an end, it's a alleviation and brings closure for my household and I.

"Throughout this agelong process, I americium grateful that the judgements person consistently gone my way. However, arsenic I person ever maintained, this assertion did not request to beryllium made oregon tally for arsenic agelong arsenic it did. The clip and wealth should person been enactment to amended use."

She thanked her ineligible team, friends and household for their "guidance and support", on with the nationalist and "many well-wishers".

"This occurrence is not thing that I ever wanted successful my life. However, I americium thankful for the mode my household and squad person dealt with it. We look guardant to moving connected with our lives."

Mrs Vardy, the woman of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, mounted the archetypal ineligible enactment aft Mrs Rooney, the woman of ex-Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney, publically accused idiosyncratic utilizing Mrs Vardy's Instagram relationship of leaking backstage accusation astir her to the press.

Mrs Vardy sued her for libel, but a High Court justice recovered successful July 2022 that Mrs Rooney's allegation was "substantially true".