Coleen Rooney has explained how she had to block out other people’s opinions on her marriage to Wayne.
Speaking in the upcoming Amazon Prime documentary on her husband’s life and football career, Coleen candidly discusses her husband’s cheating for the the first time on camera.
The mum of four credits her parents Colette and Tony for their support, as she admits part of the reason she chose to stay in her 14 year marriage during Wayne’s various cheating and drinking scandals was for their children.
Strong: Coleen Rooney has explained how she had to block out other people’s opinions on her marriage to Wayne when his multiple cheating scandals emerged – pictured on Wednesday at the premiere of their Amazon Prime documentary Rooney
Wayne and Coleen’s 20 year relationship has been marred with various cheating scandals – with the footballer making national headlines when he was found to have visited three prostitutes as a teenager.
In 2004 after Wayne, then aged 18, moved to Manchester United, it was discovered that the teenager paid £140 for sex with prostitute Charlotte Glover, 21.
It was also claimed that at a brothel in Liverpool he slept with Gina McCarrick, then 37, and grandmother Patricia Tierney, then 48.
Devastated Coleen stood by her man but didn’t comment publicly on the claims – though later admitted that when the scandal came out she hadn’t yet slept with Wayne herself.
Support: Speaking in the new documentary, Coleen says she relied on the support of her mum Colette and her own instincts to help her decide on whether to stay in the relationship (pictured with her mum last year)
Close: ‘Obviously I listen to the people that matter to me, my mum and dad always give me a positive outlook on things,’ she said (pictured with dad Tony)
The pair worked through their troubles and wed four years later, though their newlywed bliss was short-lived, as it emerged in 2010 that the footballer had slept with two more prostitutes while Coleen was pregnant with their first son, Kai.
More incidences with other women followed in 2017 and 2019, while last year Wayne hit headlines once again after pictures emerged of the star partying and falling asleep in a hotel room with young women.
Speaking in the new documentary, Coleen says she relied on the support of her family and her own instincts to help her decide on whether to stay in the relationship, pointing out:
‘When you’re making those decisions you’ve got to focus on what you want and not other people because you have so many people saying different things to you. ‘Oh why is she getting back with him?”
Young love: Wayne and Coleen began dating aged 16, but had known each other since they were 12 when Rooney played football against her brothers (pictured in 2004)
‘Obviously I listen to the people that matter to me, my mum and dad always give me a positive outlook on things. There’s nothing that we can’t deal with and that’s my way in a situation – let’s sit down and see what we can do and can we make it work? And we have. We’re not the lovey-dovey type anyway, we like to have a laugh and we work well together.’
She adds that there is some element of truth to the idea that they stayed together for their four boys, Kai, 12, Klay, eight, Kit, six, and Cass, three, explaining: ‘That was part of it but also we still love each other.’
‘Hopefully he’s learnt and he doesn’t get himself into any of those horrible situations again. But it’s happened and I’ve got to live with it, if I couldn’t cope with living with it I would have ended the relationship.’
Family: She said that there is some element of truth to the idea that they stayed together for their four boys, Kai, 12, Klay, eight, Kit, six, and Cass, three, explaining: ‘That was part of it’
Later in the Prime Video film, Coleen is seen looking back at the events of 2004 when reports of Wayne’s brothel visits and his infamous romp with three prostitutes first emerged in the press.
Reflecting on the difficult time, Coleen concedes: ‘The first time, we were young so there was a lot of arguing.’
Admitting she didn’t approve of the company Wayne was keeping, Coleen insists: ‘I knew groups that Wayne was hanging around with that weren’t good for him. Lovely people but together, with alcohol, not good and I told him that from day one.
‘I didn’t want him to stop being friends with them but I didn’t want him to go out with them because they got in bad situations.
Glamour: Coleen showcased her sartorial flair as she attended the premiere of Rooney on Wednesday night ahead of its release on Friday
‘Our life’: Coleen tweeted the morning after the documentary premiere, declaring: ‘I am who I am… He is who he is… We are what we are and that’s that!!!’
‘Alcohol is a lot to blame and still is, up to this day with things that has happened recently. It’s not a good thing for Wayne to be unsupervised’.
Wayne is also seen discussing the period, admitting: ‘I put myself in the wrong place and when you’re in the wrong place and there’s alcohol involved you’re gonna make bad decisions and you’re going to have to suffer and deal with the consequences’.
‘That’s what happened, it doesn’t take away any of my love for Coleen, it happened. It was a wrong decision to make, I held my hands up and we worked through it.’
Rooney premieres on Amazon Prime on Friday February 11.
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