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Mrs Rooney has banished those ‘doormat’ accusations once and for all
If you thought you knew everything about WAG/super-sleuth Coleen Rooney following her recent Disney +documentary, think again. Last week, the star was back with more explosive bombshells with the release of her much-anticipated memoir, My Account.
Having shot to fame as Wayne Rooney’s girlfriend when they were both teenagers, Coleen has spent more than two decades in the limelight –and with their marriage going through some very public rocky times due to his misdemeanours, it came as no surprise that she has put her husband firmly in the firing line at times.
From discussing her pain over his infidelities with sex workers to his problems with alcohol and how she brought their marriage back from the brink, Coleen didn’t hold back. And while Wayne may have preferred her to leave the past where it belongs, no one tells Coleen to do anything –as she writes in her book, “If you were to ask Wayne who wears the trousers in our house, he’d tell you that it’s me without blinking. As would anyone who knows us.”
The WAG has spent years being cruelly branded a “doormat” for sticking by her philandering husband –only worsened by the arrival of social media and the rise of trolling –and it’s clear this is her time to answer her critics. And now asource tells heat that Coleen –who shares sons Kai, 14, Klay, ten, Kit, seven, and Cass, five, with Wayne – is at apoint where she feels in total control of not only her life, but her 15-year marriage, too.
“As she says in the book, it’s clear she’s the one with the power in the marriage,” our insider explains. “She’s firmly in the driving seat and, if she ever did decide to walk away from Wayne after another drama, then she knows she would be OK and that it would be on her terms. Despite all the sensational headlines and dramas over the years, behind closed doors
Coleen’s approach has always been to sit Wayne down and demand to know everything, or she’d be out the door. The line in the sand was drawn at him lying to her. He learned that lesson early on.”
After meeting at the age of 12, Coleen and Wayne became childhood sweethearts at 16, and the early days of their romance –which she reveals were spent going to the cinema and the chip shop –were a far cry from the life they’ve led under the glare of the spotlight since Wayne made his Everton debut in 2002. And while Coleen has managed to maintain adignified front, Wayne’s mistakes have been magnified by the headlines.
In 2004, it was reported that, a
