Rebekah Vardy says she has been 'one of God's strongest warriors'

Rebekah Vardy says she has been ‘one of God’s strongest warriors’ this year after lengthy Wagatha Christie legal battle with Coleen Rooney… as she asks for an easier ride in 2023

Rebekah Vardy has asked for an easier ride next year as she suggested she has been  ‘one of God’s strongest warriors’ amid her court battle with Coleen Rooney.

It comes after the WAG, 40, sensationally claimed that she was ‘framed’ during the Wagatha Christie affair, months after losing the high-profile court battle to Coleen.

On Wednesday, Rebekah took to her Instagram Stories where she re-shared a meme, hinting at her struggles throughout the year.

Strong warrior: On Wednesday, Rebekah Vardy, 40, took to Instagram where she re-shared a meme, suggesting that she’s been ‘one of God’s strongest warriors’ this year (Pictured in May)

The post showed a viral image of a man on the phone, and he caption read: ‘Me calling God to make sure I’m not on his “strongest warriors” list again for 2023.

The wife of Leicester and England footballer Jamie, 30 – who has just come back from a string of lavish holidays with their brood  – shared her hopes for the new year.

Rebekah’s post comes after she and Jamie spent time enjoying far-flung trips with their children.

Drama! Last month, Rebekah claimed that she was ‘framed’ during the WAGatha Christie affair , months after losing the high-profile court battle to Coleen Rooney (Pictured in July)

Rebekah and Jamie share three together Sofia, seven, Finley, four and two-year-old Olivia.

Jamie has a daughter – Ella, 11 – with a former partner and Rebekah has Meghan, 17 and 11-year-old Taylor from previous relationships.

Rebekah took Coleen to court for libel – and lost – after Coleen claimed in October 2019 that Rebekah’s social media account was leaking stories about her to the Press. 

Hoping for an easier 2023: The meme shared by Rebekah was of a man on the phone was captioned: ‘Me calling God to make sure I ain’t on his Strongest Warriors list again for 2023’

Family time: Rebekah’s post comes after she and her footballer husband Jamie spent time enjoying far-flung trips wit their children.

In an interview for a discovery+ documentary, which examines both sides of the bitter court clash, she says: ‘I wonder, how easy would it be to potentially set someone up in a way that makes it look like that is the only person that has seen those [leaked Instagram] posts?’

She added: ‘I just find it absolutely incredible to this day that she said no one else knew about this.’

During the High Court trial, Mrs Justice Steyn said in her judgment in July that it was ‘likely’ that Mrs Vardy’s agent Caroline Watt ‘undertook the direct act’ of passing on information to The Sun. 

OMG! It comes after Rebekah Vardy sensationally suggested that she was ‘framed’ during the Wagatha Christie affair

Scandal: Rebekah, (left), gave her side of the story about the Wagatha trial in the docu-series

Drama! Becky took Coleen Rooney to court for libel – and lost – after Coleen (pictured with husband Wayne in May) claimed that Becky’s Instagram was the source of stories being leaked to The Sun

The judge said: ‘The evidence clearly shows in my view that Mrs Vardy knew of and condoned this behaviour, actively engaging in it.’

Rebecca was ordered to pay up to £1.5million towards Coleen’s legal fees after losing the case, but she still continues to insist she was not the culprit. 

And in the documentary series, Vardy vs Rooney: The Wagatha Trial, Rebekah also claims that a mole is still leaking Rooney stories to The Sun – which she also says proves her innocence.

‘The irony is that since I was removed as a follower, stories have been coming thick and fast about the Rooneys,’ she said. 

During the trial: Rebekah pictured with her barrister Hugh Tomlinson, KC

A friend of Rebekah’s said the WAG’s suspicions were sparked when a story in The Sun earlier this year, which suggested that Wayne Rooney would have a ‘chaperone’ when he was away from Coleen working in the US.

Mother-of-five Rebekah is on pugnacious form in the documentary, giving an interview dressed head-to-toe in black leather.

At one point she snaps: ‘I have zero tolerance for this bull****,’ and adds: ‘I just find the whole thing really ****ing bizarre.’

She was on holiday in Dubai with her husband when Coleen made the accusations on Twitter and Instagram about the leaks.

Rebekah said: ‘At the time I felt physically sick. I think it must have been the biggest panic attack. I was totally shocked. What to do next? That’s the million-dollar question.

Frenemies: Rebekah was outed by fellow footballer’s wife, Coleen, as the serial leaker of private stories with the line ‘It’s……. Rebekah Vardy’s account’ (pictured together at Euro 2016) 

‘I couldn’t understand why someone would do that. Why someone would do that knowing someone’s vulnerable, knowing the impact something like that is going to cause. It’s going to cause a s*** storm – a massive one – and that it did.’

Referring to a fake story about a flooded basement in Coleen’s new Cheshire mansion, Rebekah insisted: ‘The first time I read about the flooded basement was in the Daily Mail online. I love how I get blamed for that one, incredible.

‘If I had been selling stories, where are the messages saying ‘give this to The Sun’? ‘Make sure I get paid for this’. Where are they? There aren’t any – because they don’t exist.’

Court imposed a punitive charge over legal costs, with Rebekah told to pay 90 per cent of Coleen costs.

This was in part because crucial evidence had been destroyed after Mrs Watt accidentally dropped her phone in the North Sea.

Shocking: One of the most talked about moments in the case was the courtroom chatter about the size of Peter Andre’s genitalia – which had been compared to a ‘chipolata’ by Rebekah

Coleen’s legal team has not yet produced a final costs total, but the last figure presented to court was £1,667,860. If that stays unchanged, 90 per cent of that would be £1.5million.

Mrs Justice Steyn decided on 90 per cent, acknowledging there were certain issues that justified Coleen paying for some of the case, including her ‘weak’ allegation that Rebekah was one of the people behind The Sun’s ‘Secret Wag’ gossip column which had ‘added considerably’ to the work of Rebekah’s lawyers.

The total amount of Rebekah’s legal costs is not known, but is expected to be of a similar level to those incurred by Coleen.

The final figure may be reduced if Rebekah does not agree to pay the 90 per cent and a court later considers some costs unreasonable.

Wagatha Christie timeline: How Coleen and Rebekah’s war unfolded

September 2017 to October 2019 – The Sun runs a number of fake articles about Coleen, which she claimed she only shared with Vardy in a ‘sting’ operation, including that she travelled to Mexico to look into baby ‘gender selection’ treatment, her plan to revive her TV career and the flooding of her basement.

October 9, 2019 – Coleen uses social media to accuse Rebekah of selling stories from her private Instagram account to the tabloids. It prompts #WagathaChristie to start trending.

February 13, 2020 – In a tearful appearance on ITV’s Loose Women, Rebekah says the stress of the dispute caused her to have severe anxiety attacks and she ‘ended up in hospital three times’. 

June 23, 2020 – It emerges that Rebekah has launched libel proceedings against Coleen.

November 19-20, 2020 – The libel battle has its first High Court hearing in London. A judge rules that Coleen’s October 2019 post ‘clearly identified’ Rebekah as being ‘guilty of the serious and consistent breach of trust’.

Mr Justice Warby concludes that the ‘natural and ordinary’ meaning of the posts was that Rebekah had ‘regularly and frequently abused her status as a trusted follower of Coleen’s personal Instagram account by secretly informing The Sun of Coleen’s private posts and stories’.

February 8-9, 2022 – A series of explosive messages between Rebekah and her agent Caroline Watt – which Coleen’s lawyers allege were about her – are revealed at a preliminary court hearing.

Coleen’s lawyers seek further information from the WhatsApp messages, but the court is told that Ms Watt’s phone fell into the North Sea after a boat she was on hit a wave, before further information could be extracted from it.

February 14 – Coleen is refused permission to bring a High Court claim against Ms Watt for misuse of private information to be heard alongside the libel battle. A High Court judge, Mrs Justice Steyn, says the bid was brought too late and previous opportunities to make the claim had not been taken.

April 13 – Ms Watt is not fit to give oral evidence at the upcoming libel trial, the High Court is told as the case returns for another hearing.

May 10 onwards – The trial began

July 29 – Rebekah Vardy lost her defamation case against Coleen Rooney, the judge ruled Mrs Rooney’s accusation was ‘substantially true’.

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