COLEEN Rooney joined her footballer husband Wayne at the premiere of their new tell-all documentary in Manchester last night.
The documentary will be released on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, and sees Wayne and wife Coleen reflect back on their 20 year relationship.
In it, Wayne admits that he thought his wife of 14 years would leave him following his numerous affairs, saying: “I put myself in the wrong place and when alcohol is involved you’re going to make bad decisions and suffer the consequences. It doesn’t take away my love for Coleen. I held my hands up, that’s it. We worked through it.”
Famously, in 2011 it was reported Wayne romped with vice girls Jenny Thompson and Helen Wood.
But Helen later said Wayne was “full of remorse” after they had sex, and he showed her pictures of Coleen’s ultrasound scans.
She told the Mail: “After we had sex he brought up the fact that he was going to become a dad soon. I asked him if he was all right, and he replied, ‘I don’t know why I’ve just done that.”
Part of the documentary also sees Coleen insist that “I wouldn’t be standing here if I hadn’t forgiven him” following Wayne’s notorious brothel visits and escort scandal.
Wayne and Coleen began dating aged 16 and went on to marry in a lavish ceremony in Portofino in 2008. They are now parents to four sons – Kai, 12, Klay, eight, Kit, six, and Cass, three.
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Wayne’s visit to Liverpool brothel featured in doc
Wayne’s 2004 visit to a back-street Liverpool brothel also features in the documentary.
He blames alcohol but had to put up with the fallout, which came days before his £30million move from Everton to Man United.
He said: “I put myself in the wrong place and when alcohol is involved you’re going to make bad decisions and suffer the consequences. It doesn’t take away my love for Coleen. I held my hands up, that’s it. We worked through it.”
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Coleen ‘amazed their 13-year-marriage has survived’
Coleen said it was amazing that their 13-year-marriage has survived, and she chose not to leave him partly for the sake of their boys.
She says: “Life goes on and I’ve moved on. You’ve moved on. Not the behaviour, no. It’s not acceptable.
“Forgiveness I’d say is different. It’s not acceptable what he’s done but it’s happened and that was a stage of life that we were in at the time. But we’ve moved on.
“I forgive him but it wasn’t acceptable. If it comes up we talk about it like we are talking about it now. I haven’t got the anger I did at the time.”
She added: “I do think it’s amazing that we are where we are today. We’re lucky that we both had the strength and support of each other and the people around us to keep going. That’s something we’ve had to work hard at.
“I wouldn’t be standing here if I hadn’t forgiven him.”
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A trusted supervisor for Wayne
Coleen has also insisted that the 36-year-old has a responsible adult — either her brother Joe or someone else she trusts — to keep an eye on him so he does not stray while drunk.
Coleen said: “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.
“It’s not a good thing for Wayne to be unsupervised.”
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Coleen Rooney says she ‘cried every weekend’
COLEEN Rooney has admitted she “cried every weekend” when her husband Wayne left her at home to play football.
The mum-of-four was just 17 when she moved into her first house with the famous striker and has revealed how hard the transition was for her.
Speaking in the new Amazon Prime documentary ‘Rooney’, Coleen shares: “The thought of it was all fine and great, but obviously you were away every weekend and I used to leave my mum’s and cry all the way home to mine.
“It was all of a sudden and it was a matter of months, everything just happened.”
She adds: “We’ve always grown up quicker than what we were meant to I think. We’ve had to try and be more sensible than most people and be aware of situations and what’s going on around us.”
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Coleen lays bare her fury over cheating
COLEEN Rooney has laid bare her fury over cheating hubby Wayne for the first time — saying that his numerous affairs were “not acceptable”.
The embattled Wag, 35, says she felt anger over the striker’s behaviour and said friends asked her why she had stuck by the former England and Man Utd ace after he was caught romping with prostitutes behind her back.
Childhood sweetheart Coleen said it was amazing that their 13-year-marriage has survived, and she chose not to leave him partly for the sake of their boys.
She tells Amazon documentary Rooney, out this Friday: “Life goes on and I’ve moved on. You’ve moved on. Not the behaviour, no. It’s not acceptable.
“Forgiveness I’d say is different. It’s not acceptable what he’s done but it’s happened and that was a stage of life that we were in at the time. But we’ve moved on.
“I forgive him but it wasn’t acceptable. If it comes up we talk about it like we are talking about it now. I haven’t got the anger I did at the time.”
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Wayne ‘always knew’ he wanted to marry Coleen
The documentary, which is due out tomorrow, looks back on Wayne’s life from his council estate upbringing in the Liverpool district of Croxteth through to the soaring heights of his football career and throughout it all, his relationship with Coleen, who first met at the age of 12.
Speaking about their teenage romance, Wayne says in the documentary: “I think when I was about 11 or 12 I knew that I wanted to marry her, and I said that to her at the time. I said ‘when we grow up we’re going to get married and you’re going to have our kids’. She was looking at me like ‘yeah good one!'”
Coleen agreed, admitting of her husband: “He’s a charmer, growing up that’s how he won me over. The more I said no the more he said ‘I will one day get that date’.'”
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Documentary out today
COLEEN Rooney has spoken out on her husband Wayne’s drinking and cheating for the first time in a major new documentary on the footballer.
The documentary will be released on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, and sees Wayne and wife Coleen reflect back on their 20 year relationship.
Part of the documentary sees Wayne’s wife of 14 years insist that “I wouldn’t be standing here if I hadn’t forgiven him” following Wayne’s notorious brothel visits and escort scandal.
Wayne and Coleen began dating aged 16 and went on to marry in a lavish ceremony in Portofino in 2008. They are now parents to four sons – Kai, 12, Klay, eight, Kit, six, and Cass, three.
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Wayne Rooney fights back tears as he reveals struggle with alcohol
WAYNE Rooney has opened up about his boozing and marriage regrets on Good Morning Britain.
Wayne today spoke to GMB presenter Ben Shephard in a rare TV interview ahead of the release of a new Amazon documentary about his private life.
The Manchester United and England legend lifts the lid on his mistakes and confesses to going on two-day drinking benders to deal with the pressures of his football career.
He said today: “I’d go home and drink for two days straight. I’d wake up rough, eye drops, chewing gum, mouth wash, try to dust yourself off.”
The 36-year-old also gave a fresh glimpse inside his 13-year marriage, to Coleen, telling Ben: “I like writing poems and when we’d go to bed I’d leave one on the breakfast table for when she wakes up.”
He also explained the support Coleen has given him over the years, saying: “The difficult part of it was people were judging Coleen and her decisions.
“Does she stay with me does she leave me and I know that was difficult for her,” he added.
“But as I said before I make mistakes and a lot of people make mistakes and it’s recovering from those, that’s what shapes you into a better person.”
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How old is Wayne Rooney?
Rooney was born on October 24, 1985 – making him 33-years-old.
He joined his boyhood club Everton at the age of nine, going onto make his debut at 16.
After making an incredible impact in the Toffees side, including netting that famous strike against Arsenal, he joined Manchester United 2004 for £25.6million.
After 13 years at Old Trafford, the attacker won 16 trophies, including five Premier League titles and the Champions League in 2008.
He left the Red Devils as their all-time top scorer with 253 goals.
A season back at Everton was followed by a trip across the pond to star for DC United in MLS.
Rooney was soon instated at captain, turning them from a team fighting not to get the wooden spoon to a side preparing for the play-offs.
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‘I wouldn’t be here if I hadn’t forgiven him’
Speaking on the Amazon documentary, Rooney, which is out this Friday Coleen added: “I do think it’s amazing that we are where we are today. We’re lucky that we both had the strength and support of each other and the people around us to keep going. That’s something we’ve had to work hard at.
“I wouldn’t be standing here if I hadn’t forgiven him.”
Coleen, mum to Kai, Klay, Cass and Kit, admitted Wayne was no longer allowed to drink unsupervised, as we revealed on Saturday.The Derby County boss had to apologise to the club and Coleen last July for being snapped asleep in a budget hotel room with a group of scantily clad women.
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Explained: Coleen Rooney’s current net worth
Coleen’s net worth is estimated at around £14million.
She and Wayne own a number of multi-million-pound properties around the world so she has a significant share in those assets.
But Coleen is much more than just a Wag and has carved out a name for herself with an exercise DVD, books and a series of sponsorship and media deals.
Meanwhile, footballer husband Wayne is reportedly worth over £140million.
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Vice ‘n’ booze shame
IN 2002 17-year-old Wayne paid Charlotte Glover, then 21, £140 to sleep with her.
Next month he allegedly had sex with Gina McCarrick plus a rubber-catsuit-wearing gran, 48, known as Auld Slapper.
He visited their £45-a-time brothel in Liverpool ten times.
In 2011, it was reported he romped with vice girls Jenny Thompson and Helen Wood.
In 2017, he admitted drink-driving in party girl Laura Simpson’s VW and got a two-year ban.
More boozing followed his move to US team DC United.
In July, he was photographed asleep in a hotel room with three women.
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How Wayne and Coleen Rooney meet
Wayne and Coleen are both from Liverpool and first got together when they were both 16, just after they left secondary school.
Coleen became a regular attendee of his football games.
She supported him through his early career when he represented England at 17 and then joined Manchester United from Everton.
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How many children do Wayne & Coleen Rooney have?
The couple already have four sons but there are now talks of them wanting to add a girl. Take a look at the children they have so far.
- Kai Wayne Rooney
- Klay Anthony Rooney
- Kit Joseph Rooney
- Cass Mac Rooney
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Explained: Who is Coleen Rooney?
Born April 3, 1986, Coleen Rooney, 35, is probably best known as a football WAG and the other half of former England captain Wayne Rooney.
She was born Coleen McLoughlin in Liverpool, where her dad Tony ran a boxing club.
When Wayne first rocketed to sporting stardom she wrote columns for Closer and OK! magazine, talking about fashion and style.
She also presented her own TV show Coleen’s Real Women, looking for non-models to front huge advertising campaigns.Coleen has in addition been the face of famous brands like George at Asda, Littlewoods, and baby toy company Lamaze.
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Coleen ‘thought about leaving’ Wayne (Continued…)
Speaking in the documentary, Coleen continued to say: “Hopefully, he’s learned and doesn’t get himself into those horrible situations again.” Wayne tells the film: “It’s important that teammates, friends, family remember me for who I am rather than what I’ve done.
“Stuff that has happened in the past, with girls for instance. Stuff I regret. It’s something I feel that has stuck against my name.
“I think it’s important because it is part of what has happened with my life growing up. People still see that and look at me in a different way. I’m not that type of person.”
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Coleen ‘thought about leaving’ Wayne
In the film — for which the couple are being paid about £1million plus a share of syndication profits — Coleen admits that she did think about leaving.
She said: “When you are making those decisions you’ve got to focus on what you want, not what anyone else is saying. I listen to the people that matter — my mum and dad — and they’ve always given me a positive outlook on things.
“We are in a situation so let’s sit down, 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 together and work well together.
“People say, ‘Were they just staying together to keep the family unit together?’. That was part of it but also we still love each other.”
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Coleen lays bare her fury over cheating
COLEEN Rooney has laid bare her fury over cheating hubby Wayne for the first time — saying that his numerous affairs were “not acceptable”.
The embattled Wag, 35, says she felt anger over the striker’s behaviour and said friends asked her why she had stuck by the former England and Man Utd ace after he was caught romping with prostitutes behind her back.
Childhood sweetheart Coleen said it was amazing that their 13-year-marriage has survived, and she chose not to leave him partly for the sake of their boys.
She tells Amazon documentary Rooney, out this Friday: “Life goes on and I’ve moved on. You’ve moved on. Not the behaviour, no. It’s not acceptable.
“Forgiveness I’d say is different. It’s not acceptable what he’s done but it’s happened and that was a stage of life that we were in at the time. But we’ve moved on.
“I forgive him but it wasn’t acceptable. If it comes up we talk about it like we are talking about it now. I haven’t got the anger I did at the time.”
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Coleen & Becky Vardy ‘Wagatha Christie’ battle costing £500 a minute
COLEEN and Becky Vardy finished the latest round of their Wagatha Christie battle yesterday in a hearing which cost £500 a minute.
Lawyers argued for ten hours over two days at the High Court, with costs totalling £300,000.
Coleen had accused her ex-pal, right, of leaking stories from her private Instagram account.
Becky, 39, denies the claims and is suing for libel. Case continues.
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Wayne Rooney: Man U need to give their next manager time
Wayne Rooney believes Manchester United need to be patient with their next manager – and the club great says he would “love” to one day manage the Old Trafford giants or Everton.
The 36-year-old is doing a fine job in trying circumstances in his first managerial role, with cash-strapped Derby pushing to stay in the Championship despite an uncertain backdrop and point deductions.
Rooney recently turned down the chance to speak to former club Everton about succeeding Rafael Benitez and United will assess their options after Ralf Rangnick’s interim stint ends in the summer.
The Red Devils stumbled to a 1-1 draw at rock-bottom Burnley on Tuesday and their all-time top scorer believes the road back to the summit will require patience with the club’s next permanent manager.
“They’re obviously going through a difficult period,” Rooney told the PA news agency.
“In my opinion, what they need – whether it’s Rangnick or whether it’s a new manager at the end of the season – is someone to go in and have time. Have time to build a squad.
“I think the next three years certainly is going to be very difficult to win the Premier League.
“They need to give someone that time to build a squad and then really challenge for the big prizes, which a club like Manchester United needs to be doing.”
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Waynes admits mistakes – but says he is ‘not an alcoholic’
WAYNE Rooney admits booze nearly broke up his family after a series of drunken “mistakes” but insists he is not an alcoholic.
England’s record goalscorer revealed he went on two-day booze benders alone while at Man United.
Wife Coleen has forgiven him following a number of high-profile incidents over the years, including being pictured asleep in a hotel room with girls in July. Rooney, 36, admits having tough discussions with his wife.
The dad of four said: “There have been mistakes in the past, which I have always held my hands up to. When tough moments have come up, we have spoken about them and figured out how we’re going to get through it. The first thing you see is her forgiving some of the stuff I’ve done but then we’ve always been open about it and figured out what is best for us as a family.”
He told how he used eye drops to cover his “self-binges” as he struggled to cope with football stardom. And he said it often led to “explosions”.
The Derby boss recalled: “Coleen could see it coming every time. I’d say, ‘F*** it’ and go out and make silly mistakes.”
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Wayne recently admitted he drunk himself ‘into a stupor’ during playing days
Rooney recently told PA that he drunk himself into a stupor on days off to numb the issues he was dealing with during his playing days.
“Before I did this, I had to really think carefully if I wanted to do it or not,” he said, having arrived with wife Coleen on the blue carpet.
“I knew if I was doing it, there’s no point me doing it and not speaking about difficult situations because that’s part of life.
“That’s part of the last 20 years which I’ve been involved in and I think it’s a good time to do it because obviously I’ve gone into that next step with my life.
“We’ve got four children, I’ve gone into management, things are good.
“A time now to almost try and put that all that behind me and move on with my life as a family but also my life as a manager.”
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Waynes hopes new documentary ‘gives an insight into his life’
Manchester United and England great Wayne Rooney hopes people will get to see the real him in the new film about his life.
Former team-mates, friends and family joined the 36-year-old in central Manchester on Wednesday for the premiere of the eagerly-anticipated Amazon Prime Video documentary.
Rooney does not hide from the mistakes he has made on and off the pitch in a film that offers a fascinating glimpse into what makes him tick.
“I think certainly over the last 20 years I feel like I’ve been judged, whether fairly, unfairly, for a lot of things I’ve done,” the Derby manager told the PA news agency.
“On the pitch which is good. On the pitch which is bad. Off the pitch, good and bad.
“I think it gives everyone a real insight into me as a person. Sometimes the struggles you have, whether that’s mentally. I’ve been quite open in terms of alcohol as well.
“I think it will give everyone a real insight to see me as a person and hopefully people can really judge me then.”
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How much is Coleen Rooney worth?
Coleen’s net worth is estimated at around £14million.
She and Wayne own a number of multi-million-pound properties around the world so she has a significant share in those assets.
But Coleen is much more than just a Wag and has carved out a name for herself with an exercise DVD, books and a series of sponsorship and media deals.
Meanwhile, footballer husband Wayne is reportedly worth over £140million.
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Amazon’s new documentary Rooney out TOMORROW
COLEEN Rooney has spoken out on her husband Wayne’s drinking and cheating for the first time in a major new documentary on the footballer.
The documentary will be released on Amazon Prime Video on Friday, and sees Wayne and wife Coleen reflect back on their 20 year relationship.
Part of the documentary sees Wayne’s wife of 14 years insist that “I wouldn’t be standing here if I hadn’t forgiven him” following Wayne’s notorious brothel visits and escort scandal.
Wayne and Coleen began dating aged 16 and went on to marry in a lavish ceremony in Portofino in 2008. They are now parents to four sons – Kai, 12, Klay, eight, Kit, six, and Cass, three.