Rebekah Vardy has stated she feels there was “a lot of sexism” within the protection of her “Wagatha Christie” authorized row with Coleen Rooney.
Vardy tried to sue her fellow WAG for defamation, however a High Court choose dominated that Rooney’s Instagram put up outing Vardy for leaking tales to The Sun newspaper was “substantially true”.
In her first TV interview since dropping the libel case towards Rooney, the spouse of Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy has opened up about her ideas on the courtroom battle and the psychological well being struggles she has skilled because the row started.
TalkTV’s Kate McCann requested Vardy whether or not she thought the scrutiny by the media surrounding how she and Rooney dressed in the course of the trial was influenced by sexism, to which she replied: “Totally – the whole thing was presented in such a misogynistic way.”
Vardy, 40, identified that she doesn’t suppose Johnny Depp’s apparel was subjected to the identical degree of remark throughout his current high-profile trial with Amber Heard.
She added: “It just seems like women aren’t allowed to defend themselves. Women aren’t allowed to dress nicely. Yeah, there’s a lot of sexism involved in it.”
Vardy additionally mirrored on the way it has affected her personally because the unique put up in 2019, admitting there have been factors the place she felt she “didn’t even want to be here anymore”.
She added: “It was like the worst feeling but at the same time having those feelings, feeling that I shouldn’t be feeling that because to me that was being a failure and that was not an option for me to be seen to be like that, for the kids’ benefit more than anything.”
The former I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! contestant has beforehand revealed that she was admitted to hospital twice to be handled for psychological well being points because the row with Rooney started and feels that she might be affected by PTSD (post-traumatic stress dysfunction).
Reflecting on the possibility that she’s going to return on remedy, she added: “It’s nothing to be ashamed of, if that helps then I’ll accept it because I think everyone has to know their strengths and their weaknesses and point when they need to ask for help.”
The dispute started in 2019 when Rooney shared a put up saying she had carried out a months-long “sting operation” and accused Vardy of leaking “false stories” about her personal life to the press.
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The spouse of former England star Wayne Rooney publicly claimed Vardy’s account was the supply behind three tales in The Sun newspaper that includes pretend particulars she had posted on her personal Instagram tales.
Vardy denied leaking tales to the media and sued Rooney for libel with each girls attending a week-long trial on the High Court in London in May, which attracted an enormous quantity of press consideration.
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Speaking to TalkTV, Vardy admitted she does remorse the dispute went so far as it did however constantly reaffirmed that she nonetheless believes she is harmless.
She added that she is “disappointed” with the end result of the trial, saying: “I didn’t expect it to go that way but I think we had a judge that didn’t understand the case and didn’t look at everything.
“It feels just like the choose simply learn what was written within the media and took on their narrative bias.”
Vardy also revealed that at no point did her legal team warn her to not carry on with the case, adding: “Because they know I did not do it and that’s the precise purpose that I carried on for so long as I did and I’ll say that ’til I’m blue within the face, I didn’t do it.”
She added that she holds “no ailing emotions” in direction of Rooney however feels that if she had witnessed the man footballer’s spouse obtain the torrent of on-line abuse she had acquired she would have stepped in.
Source: information.sky.com”