Rebekah Vardy feared she would give birth prematurely in midst of Wagatha Christie scandal

Rebekah Vardy has revealed that the stress caused my Coleen Rooney’s claim she was leaking stories to the press could have sent her into premature labour, as she took another swipe at the libel trial’s judge.

Speaking in an extraordinary interview broadcast on TalkTV tonight entitled ‘Rebekah Vardy: Coleen and Me’, Mrs Vardy said that she felt the High Court judge, Mrs Justice Steyn, did not understand the 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 TalkTV’s Kate McCann, Mrs Vardy said she felt as though she ‘didn’t even want to be here anymore’, and isolated herself from the public.

Mrs Vardy said that she withdrew from the public gaze due to the stress she felt when being abused both in the street and online.

This stress, she was told by her doctor, could have sent her into premature labour.

‘I was trying to be mum to the four children that were here and to protect my baby as well,’ she said. ‘There was a really high probably I was going to go into preterm labour.

‘It was the worst feeling,’ she added.

Yesertday, in an interview with The Sun, Mrs Vardy said was enjoying a trip to Dubai when she saw that Mrs Rooney had taken to social media to accuse her of leaking stories to The Sun following her own months-long ‘sting operation’.

She said that she thought about jumping from the top floor of a shopping mall in Dubai while pregnant after being accused of leaking the stories.

She described it as her ‘lowest point’, anticipating the UK response when she returned to the country.

‘Jamie and I were in a shopping mall at the time buying baby clothes, and I just thought, ‘I don’t want to go through this, I don’t want to live like this’,’ she told The Sun.

‘For a split second, I said to Jamie, ‘I feel like I just want to jump off this top floor’.’

Mrs Vardy said that during this time, her husband, Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, ‘was always fully supportive’.

‘He was 110 per cent behind me,’ she said. ‘He encouraged me, he saw what I went through and knew what I was facing.’

The 40-year-old added: ‘I just wanted normality to resume. I felt for the kids, the ones that were innocent in this.

‘They’re too young to understand how any of this happened. You’ve got to focus on your family and help your kids.’

She added: ‘The kids were driven to school in cars with bin liners on the windows because of the press intrusion, it just went crazy. I was just a normal mum and now I’m a mum being called all sorts of things.’ 

She said that she supported her 17-year-old daughter Megan throughout the trial, and asked her not to look at the social media coverage. 

‘[She was] reading stuff about her mum that she knows is not true,’ Mrs Vardy added.

She explained how she told her eldest, ‘in life, some people will like you and some people won’t. You have to concentrate on the people that love you and care for you’, adding ‘if you want to know, come to me and we’ll have that conversation’.

Reflecting on the trial, she said: ‘Do I feel let down? I feel let down by the legal system.

‘I had a judge that didn’t really know the case, and read what was said in the media.’ 

She told The Sun in an interview: ‘I am extremely sad and disappointed at the decision that the judge has reached.

‘It is not the result that I had expected, nor believe was just. I brought this action to vindicate my reputation and am devastated by the judge’s finding.’

Coleen Rooney today hit back at Rebekah Vardy on social media as her friends told MailOnline that her Wagatha Christie trial rival should move on after her High Court humbling. 

Mrs Rooney believes ‘everything that needed saying was said’ in the judge’s ruling that humiliated Mrs Vardy last week and left her with a £3million legal bill, in what has been branded one of the worst own goals in British legal history.

Today Coleen also dismissed Rebekah’s suggestion she was ‘milking it’ by wearing a moon boot to court by sharing a shocking X-ray of her foot break sustained after a fall in March. The picture showed her little toe had been shattered.

The 36-year-old, who wore the protective footwear every day during her High Court libel battle with Rebekah, has refused to be drawn back into the row after Rebekah’s latest outburst claiming she was, ‘let down by the legal system’.

Rebekah, 40, now faces an estimated £3million legal bill over the case after a scathing 75-page judgement left her credibility in tatters. In a five-page interview today, the mother-of-five says the court case left her suffering from ‘PTSD’ and claimed she was ‘slut-shamed’ and ‘bullied’. 

Friends of Coleen said there would be no official response from her. ‘She’s won the case, the judge has said all that needs to be said about Rebekah’s version of events and Coleen won and has no interest in being drawn back into the fray,’ one told MailOnline, adding: ‘Coleen feels at the moment that everything that needed saying was said in the judge’s ruling’.

MailOnline can reveal that the case will now return to the High Court on September 12 for a costs hearing – at which trial judge Mrs Justice Steyn is likely to take a dim view at being told by Rebekah following the verdict that she ‘got it wrong’ and felt she was ‘let down by the legal system’.

Costs hearings are convened to work out exactly how big a share of the legal bill the losing party will be saddled with – and whether the costs incurred are reasonable.