Lizzie Cundy has compared Rebekah Vardy’s new interview to Prince Andrew’s car crash Newsnight appearance as she discussed the fallout from the Wagatha Christie trial.
Rebekah, 40, recently gave her first interview since losing her £3million libel case against rival WAG Coleen Rooney, 36, with the TV personality becoming emotional as she claims she was ‘let down’ by the justice system.
And addressing Rebekah’s TV appearance during Thursday’s Lorraine, Lizzie, 54, branded the interview a ‘mistake’, before slamming the mother-of-five for not ‘apologising’ for her alleged wrongdoings.
Having her say: Lizzie Cundy has compared Rebekah Vardy’s new interview to Prince Andrew’s car crash Newsnight appearance as she discussed the fallout from the Wagatha Christie trial
When asked by stand-in host Ranvir Singh if Rebekah’s TalkTV interview was a ‘mistake’, Lizzie responded ‘without a doubt’ before comparing it to the Duke of York’s now infamous interview with Emily Maitlis in 2019.
During the sit down with the presenter (widely considered one of the most disastrous interviews in royal history), Prince Andrew denied he had sex with Virginia Giuffre, who said she was trafficked by Jeffery Epstein on three separate occasions, including when she was 17 – still a minor under US law.
He also dismissed one of the American’s claims – that he was sweating heavily as they danced at London nightclub Tramp – as factually wrong because he had a medical condition at the time which meant he did not sweat.
Speaking out: Rebekah, 40, recently gave her first interview since losing her £3million libel case against rival WAG Coleen Rooney, 36, with the TV personality becoming emotional as she claims she was ‘let down’ by the justice system
Disaster: When asked by stand-in host Ranvir Singh if Rebekah’s TalkTV interview was a ‘mistake’, Lizzie responded ‘without a doubt’ before comparing it to the Duke of York’s now infamous interview with Emily Maitlisin 2019
Lizzie explained: ‘This is like the Prince Andrew interview. Different charges, obviously, but no one is believing.’
Giving her advice to Rebekah, Lizzie went on: ‘If I were Rebekah, I would have gone away, reflected, maybe apologised. There’s one thing I did notice – there was no apology.’
She continued: ‘The judge has given a verdict. It’s not like being in a player’s bar lounge where there’s gossip.
‘For court, you need your facts, you need your evidence and sadly for Rebekah there wasn’t any.’
During the Lorraine interview, Lizzie insisted that she attempted to stop the Wagatha Christie trial from going ahead for the sake of her pal Coleen.
Opinion: Addressing Rebekah’s TV appearance during Thursday’s Lorraine, Lizzie, 54, branded the interview a ‘mistake’, before slamming the mother-of-five for not ‘apologising’ for her alleged wrongdoings
She said: ‘It didn’t have to happen. I don’t think it should have ever got to court and she’s the one that forced it. She wanted her day here and it’s caused so much stress, so much upset.
‘I said countless times to Coleen, I would negotiate. I said sort it out over a prosecco and a bowl of nuts. Don’t go to court. It’s so stressful.
‘If she hadn’t taken it to court, we wouldn’t be talking about it today.’
Rebekah recently told how she would take Coleen for a ‘Caffe Nero’ to discuss what happened should she bump into her in the street.
Verdict: Giving her advice to Rebekah, Lizzie went on: ‘If I were Rebekah, I would have gone away, reflected, maybe apologised. There’s one thing I did notice – there was no apology’
Drama: During the Lorraine interview, Lizzie insisted that she attempted to stop the Wagatha Christie trial from going ahead for the sake of her pal Coleen
Thoughts: It didn’t have to happen. I don’t think it should have ever got to court and she’s the one that forced it. She wanted her day here and it’s caused so much stress, so much upset’
And giving her opinion on whether Coleen would want to talk things through with her WAG rival, Lizzie said her friend – whom she spoke to after the trial result on Friday – just wants to put the whole debacle behind her.
She added: ‘She’s had a tough time and I think just wants to move on from it.’
Looking to the future, Lizzie said of Rebekah: ‘As a PR person, I would say to Rebekah: reinvent yourself, do something for waterproof phones or waterproof mascara – she cried a lot in court. Don’t go back to this, this is over. Try and move on.’
Rebekah spoke about losing her libel case to Coleen in an extraordinary interview broadcast on TalkTV after being accused of leaking stories about her to the press.
Emotional: Rebekah spoke about losing her libel case to Coleen in an extraordinary interview broadcast on TalkTV after being accused of leaking stories about her to the press
She said that she withdrew from the public gaze due to the stress she felt when being abused both in the street and online, and that she felt the High Court judge, Mrs Justice Steyn, did not understand the libel case
She spoke extensively about the impact that the trial, and the lead-up to it, had on her family.
The mother-of-five was pregnant with her youngest daughter when Mrs Rooney first accused her of leaking stories about to The Sun in her famous ‘Wagatha’ post on social media ending ‘It’s……….Rebekah Vardy’s account’.
Speaking to Kate McCann, Mrs Vardy said she felt as though she ‘didn’t even want to be here anymore’, and isolated herself from the public.
Tough time: She said that she withdrew from the public gaze due to the stress she felt when being abused both in the street and online, and that she felt the High Court judge, Mrs Justice Steyn, did not understand the libel case
***
Read more at DailyMail.co.uk