Vardy v Rooney: A Courtroom Drama (2022) - full transcript

This programme contains
very strong language.

For a few years now,

someone who I trusted
on my personal Instagram account

has been consistently informing
the Sun newspaper

of my private posts.

I came up with an idea.

I blocked everyone from viewing
my stories except for one account.

I posted a series of false stories

to see if they found their way into
The Sun.

And you know what? They did.

It's...



..Rebekah Vardy's account.

A very public row has broken

out between the wives
of two high-profile footballers.

She conducted an undercover
sting operation.

Feels like the start of something
quite explosive.

Rebekah Vardy has announced this
week that she plans

to sue Coleen Rooney for defamation.

On one side is Coleen Rooney.
TV presenter, columnist

and wife of former England
footballer, Wayne Rooney.

On the other side is Rebekah Vardy,
former model, reality TV contestant,

and wife of Leicester City striker,
Jamie Vardy.

I've been in touch with Coleen

and she was hoping it could get
solved without having

to go to the High Court. I mean look



this is gonna be costing
over millions,

court is very scary.
Not a nice place to be.

But neither were gonna back down
and neither was gonna say sorry.

Coleen does feel she had
every right to out Rebekah on this.

Why is everyone so fascinated by
this story?

Revenge, vengeance,
people can't get enough of it,

I mean, broadsheet papers,
the tabloid papers,

people in the supermarket saying
to each other "what do you think?

"Do you think she did it? Do you
think she didn't do it?"

Is there really any doubt that she
did it? It's fascinating.

I think every emoji that could have
been hit was hit,

every WhatsApp group chat lit up.

I'm not saying that Coleen's a bad
person

and as someone that's been in this
industry now for

a long time with her level
of following,

if you post this, this is what's
gonna happen.

She's had quite a lot of bad press
anyway.

She's somebody who does rub people
up the wrong way.

Because people don't like her as
much as they like Coleen.

What happens here if she is telling
the truth and she didn't do it?

Court rise.

My Lady. On the 9th of October 2019,

Mrs Rooney accused Mrs Vardy
of being

the person who had regularly leaked
information about her

from her private Instagram account
to The Sun newspaper.

As a result, Mrs Vardy and her
family were subjected to abuse

and threats of a really
horrific nature.

But, the allegation in
the post was false.

Mrs Vardy had not leaked
information about Mrs Rooney.

There is a great focus in

Mrs Rooney's argument in this trial
on the role of Caroline Watt.

Ms Watt and Mrs Vardy were
great friends

over a number of years in addition
to their professional relationship.

The court will hear a lot about

the WhatsApp messages
they exchanged.

Mrs Vardy accepts that it is
possible that

Ms Watt had some involvement in
the leaking

of information from Mrs Rooney's
private Instagram account.

That is not something she knew
anything about

and it is something that she didn't
approve of or authorised Ms Watt to do.

Mrs Vardy doesn't actually
know what happened.

All she knows is what she did.
And she knows it wasn't her.

Thank you. My Lady, with the court's
permission, I'll call Mrs Vardy.

Court room 13 was packed full
of journalists.

We knew this was
going to be dramatic.

Rooney was represented by
David Sherborne,

one of the most highly paid

and formidable lawyers in
the country.

He has three days
to dismantle Vardy's story

and to destroy her credibility.

Mrs Vardy.

You would agree that

to secretly pass on somebody else's
information that didn't want it

to be shared with
the outside world is wrong?

Yes, my Lady.

Would you say that you respect other
people's privacy?

Yes, I do.

Well, let's test that.
We're back in 2004.

And you gave The News of
the World this interview

about having had sex with Peter
Andre.

"Peter's shaved, slobbery,
lasts five minutes

"and then falls asleep. Peter
was tiny, she sighs.

"Smallest trouser equipment
I've ever seen.

"When he pulled down his pants,
I couldn't believe it.

"It was like a miniature chipolata."

Your words, Mrs Vardy?

Yes, my Lady. Can I give you a bit
of history on that one?

Well, I would rather you answer
my question.

Do you think it was respectful
of Mr Andre,

to have told all this
to Sun readers?

It is horrible.

And would I ever do something like
that again?

Not in a million years.
It is not nice.

I was very young and I've
apologised for this.

It's... shameful reading that
and it's one of my biggest regrets.

What the defence is trying
to do here

is paint and allege
a picture of Vardy having

a long history of telling people's
personal information

to national journalists.

One of the strange features
of this trial

was that it centred on someone who
never actually testified.

That's Rebekah Vardy's former PR
agent and friend, Caroline Watt.

Both Rooney and Vardy agreed that Watt
could have been leaking stories to The Sun.

The question was,
did Vardy know she was doing it?

Vardy claimed that she didn't.

The challenge for her was how
to explain away

the evidence to the contrary.

I make this statement in support
of my claim

for libel against Coleen Rooney.

I first met Caroline Watt in 2016,

when I decided to take on
professional media help.

I liked her and I thought she
was funny,

our children were very similar ages
and we bonded over that.

I gave Caroline sole access

to my Instagram account when
I was appearing on I'm a Celebrity.

Did you tell Mrs Rooney that
Ms Watt had access,

through your account,
to her private Instagram account?

No, and I didn't tell
lots of other followers the same.

And do you feel strongly that as
your agent she should be able

to read everyone's private

information without their knowledge
through the use of your account?

No, but to the best of my knowledge I
didn't know that's what was happening.

And if she was, that would be wrong?
Correct.

And if you knew she was doing that,

that would make you responsible as
well, wouldn't it?

Yes, but I didn't know that that's
what was happening.

So you say, Mrs Vardy, so you say.

Can I now ask you to turn to
the first bundle, D.

This is an exchange between you
and Caroline Watt, is that right?

Yes.

We see you start this exchange
at 8.49am.

What does "FFS" stand for?

Um...

It's fine.

"For Fuck's Sake."

I just wanted to be clear before
I read it as that.

If you leak someone's information,

now that's not a nice thing
to do, is it,

we can agree on that, can't we?

Yes, but I didn't leak anything.

I genuinely can't remember who we

were discussing in this
conversation.

And, when I say "leak"...

..I have very strong beliefs on
promoting positive body imaging

and it actually wasn't meant
to read like that at all.

What I meant was,

can we not do a positive
body campaign.

Which I then went on
the following year

and did a positive body campaign.

WhatsApp is used in English.
That is the language,

and you do use the word "leak,"
don't you?

I did use the word "leak,"
but that's not what I meant.

I wanted to do a story promoting
positive body imaging.

And if you are doing a story,
then how is that a leak?

Because... that's not what I meant to
say.

It wasn't meant to be a leak.

Oh, I see.

You don't know what
the word "leak" means then?

Well, there are two meanings to it,

but that's not what I meant when
I said the word "leak."

Can we turn then to
the next example?

You message Ms Watt out of the blue.

"OMG, have you seen how badly
Mrs F is behaving."

Mrs F is a well-known celebrity,
right? That's correct, yes.

We have the names in
the confidential schedule

so I am going to be very careful not
to identify them.

Mr H is the estranged husband.

And Mr G is a well-known footballer.

You instructed Caroline to leak

a story about Mrs F cheating on her
husband by having sex with

a well-known footballer behind his
back.

Isn't that what you say there?

That's the way it reads,

but I was actually just joking about
that one.

You were just joking, were you?
Yes, I was.

But Ms Watt doesn't think
you're joking, does she?

Because she says, "I tried before
but The Sun already knew about it

"and couldn't prove it as usual."

Now, you don't respond
to that by saying,

"Oh, I'm only joking, Caroline.

"I didn't really mean for you
to leak it",

what you say is "Ugh,"

you're annoyed that you can't leak
it, aren't you?

No, I'm disgusted.

Going back to the first comment
with the behaviour.

It's... it's more like a yuck not
an ugh.

Really?

You want this court to believe that?

Mrs Watt and myself have been
friends for

a very long time.

Our WhatsApps were
sometimes outrageous,

sometimes totally inappropriate
but these are

a lot of conversations that are
between friends,

gossiping and poking fun
about people,

and yes, they don't read very well.

But, there's always explanations
for them.

Rebekah Vardy didn't grow up part of
the media elite.

She actually grew up on council
estates and became homeless at 15.

PHONE RINGS

But, after marrying one of
the biggest footballers in

the country, she began to establish
a public profile of her own.

She appeared on TV, I'm A Celebrity
and Loose Women,

and she was constantly
featured in the press.

But now, that very same media that
had helped her rise

to fame sat in judgement on her,
in literally the seats

a jury would normally sit in.

Live Tweeting to the public as
Rooney's team continued their attack.

The next accusation was
of underhand methods in

the way that Vardy tried
to boost her press profile.

Mrs Robertson, please feel free to
sit. Thank you.

Harpreet Robinson claimed

Vardy sat in seats that weren't
allocated to her at the Euros 2016.

Robertson suspected Vardy sat there

so she could be photographed next
to Rooney by the press.

Can we talk about
the Euros 2016 game?

You said an issue arose as

to whether Rebekah Vardy was in
the right seats? Yes.

Can you just explain
the process briefly as

to how you decide who sits where in
a game?

Well, prior to the match, I would
do a recce of the stadium

and then I would work out which
seats to allocate to various groups.

I was trying to avoid
the families of

the footballers sitting together.

Because we'd seen on previous tournaments
that this had become a distraction.

I wanted the football to be
the focus of the tournament.

In relation to Mrs Vardy's seating,
what issue arose?

Her guests were sitting in my seats.

It meant that I didn't have a seat or
the security guards that I was with.

We had to find somewhere else.

In terms of what happened when
you spoke

to Mrs Vardy's party, can you
just give

a little explanation as
to what was said to you?

I mean, this is the bit that...

..it was the worst sort
of moment I've had working on

a match up until that point.

She was told to fuck off.

I absolutely didn't tell her that
at all.

Can we turn to the next page?

Your Euro Diary, it's your column
in The Sun.

Ms Caroline Watt has arranged
for you to have

a column in The Sun, hasn't she?
That's correct, yes.

You've done well. I suppose you
could call it that.

This is you getting a chance
to promote yourself in The Sun?

No, this is an opportunity
for me to be able

to earn my own money.

I never wanted to rely on
my husband.

I wanted to earn my own money

and there were opportunities
that arose.

Now, this is the article you wrote
after the Wales game.

"I was sitting just behind
Coleen Rooney watching

"the game and we'd
a chat before it started."

That's gratuitous, isn't it?

No, I think it's stating
the obvious.

I mean, the pictures speak for
themselves.

Let me help you, Mrs Vardy.

The reason you wanted
to put this in is

because it boosts your public
profile, doesn't it?

That's just ridiculous.

What you don't say is you were
sitting behind Mrs Rooney

because you deliberately went
and sat there,

even though they weren't your seats.

That's nonsense. Absolute nonsense.

Well, someone is not telling the
truth. Either you or Mrs Robertson.

I think she's...

..has either got confused or it's
what she's been told to say.

What she's been told to say?

Who has she been told
to say this by?

I don't know. I'm just speculating,
my Lady.

What were you speculating?

Perhaps you can tell us.

That maybe she got her wires crossed

or that she... got the wrong end of
the stick.

So, you're quite prepared, in this
court, to throw around

an accusation that Mrs Robertson has
not been telling the truth.

Well, I don't believe her statement.

Let's come on to some other examples
of you providing other people's

information they don't
want published.

Danny Drinkwater was another
professional footballer, yes?

Yes.

On the 8th April 2019, you message
Caroline Watt.

Is this another joke?

Another conversation between you

and Ms Watt which is not real
English?

No, it's absolutely not a joke.

It is not a joke

because you say you want money in
return for this story, don't you?

It was a fleeting thought

and one I didn't consider any
more than when I wrote it.

What on earth does that mean,
that answer?

Can you just explain that?
"It was a fleeting thought."

I meant in the context that it was
something terrible that had originated.

That I had seen on social media.

I'm... deeply affected by
drink driving.

My ex-husband killed two people
during our marriage

and it was something that
I felt was outrageous,

and at the time I didn't
care whether

the information came out or not.

It was something that
rightly should,

someone should have to deal with
and if they've got expensive lawyers

the chances are they won't have
to deal with it.

They were going to get away with it.

You meant it when you said,
"I want paying for this."

No, it wasn't a serious comment.

It was not a serious comment?

Well, we will see how seriously
Ms Watt takes it in a minute.

Look what Caroline Watt says.

You say "He's in big trouble." Now,
you don't come back and say,

"What on earth are you doing sending
it to Andy Halls, a Sun journalist?"

No, I didn't and for that,
I can only apologise.

The messages are not good,

but it was something that really
affected me in the instance.

Very, very badly in the past.

Caroline Watt says to you...

To which you respond...

So, what are you angry about when
you say,

"Fuck, someone already tipped it."

I'm not angry at all.

Again, it's just the way we spoke
to each other.

You're fuming because someone else
beat you to it.

That's not true at all, I was annoyed
that I didn't give it to Caroline earlier.

Why?

I don't know.

Mrs Vardy, I am
going to ask you again.

Why are you fuming that you didn't
give it to Caroline earlier?

I don't know.

Mrs Vardy, I'm going to ask you
to take the supplemental bundle.

Can you turn, please, to page 273.

This is your witness statement,
isn't it?

Yes. Can I just read
the statement of truth there.

"I believe that the facts stated in
this witness statement are true."

And you understood, didn't you,

how important it was
to get this document right?

And you know the consequences
of getting it wrong.

Yes.

I have sometimes been caught up in
the heat of the moment

during conversations with Caroline where
I have talked about "leaks" and payment.

This was the kind
of jokey chat that Caroline

and I would have from time to time.

She would be speaking to journalists

and they would give her gossip
and try and get stories.

These kinds of conversations were
part of

the strange celebrity gossip world
I have come to inhabit.

But, these conversations were
never serious

and Caroline would have
understood that.

Mrs Vardy...

..do you still stand by that
evidence?

That in all those conversations that
we've seen,

you were never being serious

and Caroline understood that you
were never being serious?

Yes, or no, please, Mrs Vardy. Yes.

Apart from the Danny Drinkwater one.

Oh, I see, so there is an exception,
is there?

Why on earth then did you not say in
the statement,

I put it to you that when you say in
that written statement,

"these conversations were never,"

and I emphasise
the word "never, serious",

that's completely untrue, isn't it?
No, that's not.

This shows, Mrs Vardy, that you are
prepared to lie under oath, aren't you?

No, I'm really not, no.

Leaked text messages, sold stories.

The High Court case between
Rebekah Vardy

and Coleen Rooney has got
everybody talking.

So far, Vardy had been accused
of leaking various stories,

but none were yet about
Rooney herself,

and ultimately, those were the ones
that mattered.

If Rooney couldn't prove that
Vardy knew about those leaks,

Vardy would win her claim for libel.

Vardy's defence was that her agent

Caroline Watt had leaked those
posts. Not her.

Rooney's team didn't believe Vardy.

But, could they prove she wasn't
telling the truth.

In 2019, I was aware that
information from my

private Instagram account was being
leaked to The Sun.

It was messing with my head that
someone who I trusted was doing this

to me. Becky's account was
the one that stood out at that time.

We got on fine, but over time,

I got the feeling that she was
really just fishing for information.

I decided to remove Becky as
a follower

to see whether that put a stop
to the leaks.

Mrs Rooney blocks you.

Then, on the 6th February,

Caroline messages you.
"Babe, has Coleen unfollowed you?"

That's correct.

Ms Watt must have been looking
through your account at

Mrs Rooney's account to be able
to see that she had unfollowed you.

I can't comment on that.

I don't know how she managed
to find out that.

You don't know? Well, OK,
let's look a bit further down.

You say...

So this is Caroline Watt telling you
that she's specifically looking on

the account to find out what's going
on in Mrs Rooney's life.

Do you see? Yes.

Yes. It's quite clear Ms Watt was
monitoring Mrs Rooney's private

Instagram account, through the use
of your account, isn't that right?

No. It says she looked on there at
the weekend.

That doesn't say that she's
monitoring it or that she's

consistently checking it or
consistently looking at it.

But, she is telling you she has been
doing it?

No, she says she's looked on there
at the weekend.

That doesn't say that she's
monitoring it or that she's

consistently checking it or looking
at it.

"OMG" you say.

"What a cunt.

"I'm going to message her." And then
Caroline says...

You're trying to work out what you
should do about

the fact that Mrs Rooney has
unfollowed you.

You go on. "Not having her bad
mouth me to anyone.

"If she's doing that, my god,
she will be sorry."

And you say, "I've messaged her.

"I swear she better not cunt
me off."

I received a WhatsApp from
Becky which said,

"I saw you had unfollowed me,
just wanted

"to ask if I offended you in any
way?

"Literally only noticed the other
day."

This made me really suspicious,
but I wanted

to be 100% certain who was
responsible for the leaks.

So, I accepted her as
a follower again.

But on Twitter, I uploaded

a public message that information
was being leaked by someone.

This post was a warning shot.

And I was hopeful it might stop
the leaks.

Can we turn to her public warning
post about the leaks?

"It's happened several times
now over

"the past couple of years," she
says.

"It's sad to think someone,

"who I have accepted
to follow me is betraying

"for either money or to keep a
relationship with the press."

Correct, wasn't she?

I don't know.

If you look at page 53,

this is you speaking to Caroline
Watt about the post.

She obviously finds it very funny,
doesn't she?

I don't know whether they are
laughing or crying.

OK.

It looks to me like laughing
to me. Crying with laughter.

Then you say, "I know,"

and then, these words from Caroline.

"It was me." She's admitting there
what you knew already.

That seems to be what she's saying,
but...

..I'm just looking at
the times. It's 18:47.

That's when I'm bathing my children.
There's no response from me.

Well, why didn't you after the bath,
if that's what you're doing,

why didn't you message her then
and say,

"What are you talking about?
You didn't do it."

Why didn't you come back and say,
"I've just read what you've written.

"I can't believe it.
That's nonsense".

You don't need to respond, do you,
Mrs Vardy, because

you know exactly what she's
talking about.

Because if I may, my Lady,

I have seen the conversation
that follows,

and, without wanting to make fun of
anyone it was actually Dancing on Ice,

and Gemma Collins face-planting on
the ice was the next message.

That's what I had on in the background
when I was bathing the children.

At times, you had to remind yourself
that Vardy was

the one who chose to bring this
to trial,

not the other way around.
Did she ever wish she hadn't?

Who knows?

But so far she had doggedly stuck
to her story.

And Rooney's team were hampered by
a lack of direct evidence.

Although they had some of her
WhatsApps, many of them had gone missing.

What happened to all
the messages between you

and Caroline Watt on your
phone between

the 15th of October 2019 and July
2020?

I can't confirm or deny

but I think I may have changed
phones around that time.

August, as you know, was a busy
month, wasn't it?

There was a hearing in this court
when one of

the judges ordered that not only
should you disclose

and have searched your devices,

but that Ms Watt should also.
You knew that, didn't you?

Yes. And when, a few days later, she
loses her phone in

the North Sea... that would be pretty
important, wouldn't it?

Yes, I think so.

She would have rung you up
straight away,

wouldn't she, to say,
"Oh, my God, I've lost my phone,

"I have dropped it in the sea."

Yes, she told me on the phone.

So why is it that your solicitors
do not tell us about that

for four months?

I don't know. You see, the shame is,
isn't it, Mrs Vardy,

that Mr Boyle's WhatsApp messages
with Ms Watt,

just as the ones with Mr Hall,
are lying at the bottom of

the sea, in Davy Jones' locker,
aren't they?

Who is Davy Jones? LAUGHTER

It just means at the bottom of
the sea.

After yet another leak,

I wanted to catch
the account responsible,

so I came up with a plan.

Instagram has a function by which
you could post a story,

and limit which
of your followers was able

to view that story.

I would invent and fabricate
a story,

and limit the accessibility in such
a way

so that it was only Becky's account
that could view it.

I would then wait
and see whether my fabricated story,

which had only been seen by Becky's
account, appeared in The Sun.

And that, of course,
is exactly what happens.

Her fake stories begin to appear
in The Sun.

Let's look at page 752.

This is one of them, the flooded
basement post.

We can see on

the bottom left-hand corner it's
seen by only you, isn't it?

On the face of it, that's what
it says.

She's limited her followers
to just one account.

No-one else would have seen it.

The post is a bottle of wine
and it says,

"Needed after today, flood in
the basement of our new house

"when it all seemed
to be going so well."

Now, her new house is a topic,
obviously, of conversation.

The fact that she was building
a house, yes?

Yes. So, the fact that there had
been a flood in the basement of

the house would have been
very newsworthy.

I don't know why it would have been
newsworthy, but...

Well, The Sun obviously thought
it was a newsworthy story

because as we see on page 84,
they publish

an article about it, don't they?

"Coleen Rooney has weathered plenty

"of storms during her 11-year
marriage,

"but the latest one wasn't to do
with husband Wayne."

And the source obviously thought it
was

a newsworthy story too,
because they passed it to them,

even though it was a false story.

You didn't know it was a false story
though did you when you saw it?

I can't recall seeing this one.

Mrs Vardy...

..I'm going to have to suggest
to you that you seem

to be trying to distance yourself

from having seen this flooded
basement post, are you?

No. And The Sun article is based on
information that you

and Ms Watt passed through,
that only you or Ms Watt,

had seen in Mrs Rooney's private
Instagram account.

That's correct, isn't it?
That's not correct, no.

I'm going to ask you
the question again.

Did you or did you not see this
screenshot, Mrs Vardy?

No. I don't recall seeing this one.

Um... er...

..this is the answer your solicitors
gave us on instructions.

Was "Mrs Vardy recalls seeing
the Flooded Basement Post".

But now, you just said you don't
recall it?

N... er...

No, that's right.

A lot of things were...

There was a lot
of abuse at that time.

Do you want to take a break,
Mrs Vardy?

Let's take a five minute break.

I saw Coleen's post which said
I had leaked to The Sun,

soon after it was published on
the 9th of October 2019.

It came as a great shock to me.

I could not believe that
Coleen had not called me

before posting this accusation
to the world.

My concerns were that
I would not faint,

have a panic attack or
stop breathing.

I started to get really hot

and suffered from
strange palpitations.

Loads of messages started coming

through on my mobile phone calling
me names.

"Fucking rat", "fucking bitch,"
"who sells their friends out?"

I was heavily pregnant

and it felt like the whole world
was caving in.

Can I take you to page 779? 779.

Mrs Rooney put up the post that is
the subject of this action.

Caroline Watt tells you.

Ms Watt's coming up with excuses.

No, that's true. My Instagram did
follow people,

and still does to this day,
that I don't follow.

She says, "Just say you have allowed
a company to access it

"for sponsored posts." Caroline Watt
knows that's not true, doesn't she?

I think she's trying to be
protective

and come up with something.

My Lady, you'll have to excuse me,
that is such a blur that day.

She's feeding you lines,
isn't she, Mrs Vardy,

to try and suggest to Mrs Rooney
that you are not

responsible, is that correct or not?
No.

And then Caroline writes out
for you what you should say

to Coleen Rooney.

"Over the years various people have
had access to my Insta,

"just this week I found
I was following people I didn't know

"and have never followed myself.
I liked you a lot, Coleen,

"I'm so upset that you have chosen
to do this,

"especially when I'm heavily
pregnant."

This is Caroline writing
to you what you should say.

That's correct, because I couldn't
think straight.

If you turn to page 87.

This is an exclusive interview you
gave the next day.

The heading is

"Arguing with Coleen Rooney would
be as pointless as arguing with a pigeon."

We read "Vardy says, you can tell it
that you are right and it is wrong,

"but it's still going to shit in
your hair."

That's what you said to her,
isn't it?

It seemed Coleen had weaponised her
fanbase against me,

and I was desperately trying

to do something to defuse
the situation.

I am going to conclude.

Mrs Vardy, we've seen you and Ms
Watt were consistently discussing,

and passing on information
to The Sun about

a number of people who you
knew, yes?

No.

Mr Drinkwater.

The married footballer.

Mr H. We have seen you asking
Ms Watt to leak

the story of Mrs F shagging.

Would you not agree, Mrs Vardy,

that if it looks like a leak
and it sounds like a leak

and you even use the word "leak,"

that it is more likely than not
to be a leak?

No. And that's what you were,
wasn't it, a leak? No.

So, when Mrs Rooney wrote on

the 9th October that she was correct
in suspecting you

and of your account of having consistently
been leaking private information

to The Sun she was right,
wasn't she?

No, she was wrong.

And that's why Ms Watt couldn't face
coming to court in

the end, could she?

Actually, she's been driven

to suicidal thoughts by
these proceedings

and the antics of the defendant.

So, you blame her instead

and say that she may well have done
it after all these years

of faithful service
and doing only what you both knew

and approved of her doing,
isn't that correct?

No.

You see, Mrs Vardy, I have to put it
to you...

..that it is not her that has
betrayed you,

as you suggest.

It is you that has betrayed her by
throwing her under the bus.

Is that a joke?

Let's see what the court says,
Mrs Vardy.

I have no further questions.
Thank you.

It was estimated Vardy's legal bills

to this point were approaching one
million pounds.

Was it worth it?

If she thought it would restore
some sort

of spotless reputation,
possibly not.

But maybe spotless reputations
aren't what count these days.

If notoriety is actually
the secret to success,

who knows, perhaps it will all turn
out to be money well spent.

And now she'd escaped
the witness box,

it would be her opportunity
to turn the heat on Rooney.

Anyone who thought this case
was over was in for a shock.

She told me she wanted
to make me feel paranoid

the way she had felt paranoid.

We don't have your WhatsApp
messages, do we?

I've got no reason to...

You see when this happens
to Mrs Vardy, its a plot.

I'm sat here under oath.

I 100% spoke to Mr Vardy.

You see Mrs Rooney I'm suggesting
that you're wrong about that.

You replied by telling a lie. Yes.

You don't actually
have any evidence, do you?

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