Footballer Jamie Vardy's phone can be inspected as part of libel battle between his wife and Coleen Rooney, a judge rules
Coleen Rooney accused Rebekah Vardy of leaking stories to the press about her private life in 2019Social media was set alight on 9 October 2019 when Coleen Rooney pressed send on her Instagram and Twitter posts, accusing Rebekah Vardy of leaking details about her life to the tabloids.
In an effort to work out which of her friends had been sharing stories, she'd published different fake stories on Instagram to different people, and monitored which ones ended up as newspaper stories.As the argument raged on, Vardy's lawyers said her husband faced abuse on the pitch which meant they couldn't let their young children attend games anymore.
Vardy decided to sue for defamation last year in July, with court documents written by her lawyers saying the incident had affected her mental and physical health. When Rooney's social media posts were released, Vardy was seven months pregnant and her lawyers claim they led to her being taken to hospital three times with anxiety attacks.
The pair originally became friends through their husbands, former Manchester United and England player Wayne Rooney and Leicester striker Jamie Vardy.
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