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Rebekah Vardy has mentioned she believes there was “plenty of sexism” concerned within the protection of her ‘Wagatha Christie’ authorized battle towards Coleen Rooney.

In her first TV interview since losing the high profile libel case (watch in full above), the spouse of Leicester Metropolis striker Jamie Vardy opened up about her ideas on the case and the results it has had on her personally.

Final week Rebekah misplaced a libel battle towards Coleen over a viral social media put up, after a Excessive Court docket decide discovered it was “considerably true”.

In her first interview because the ruling, Rebekah opened as much as TalkTV’s Kate McCann about how she thought the case was introduced in a “misogynistic means”.

When requested whether or not she thought the scrutiny by the media surrounding how she and Coleen dressed through the trial was influenced by sexism, Rebekah replied: “Completely – the entire thing was introduced in such a misogynistic means.”

She identified that she doesn’t suppose Johnny Depp’s apparel was subjected to the identical degree of commentary throughout his current high-profile trial with Amber Heard.

She added: “It simply looks like ladies aren’t allowed to defend themselves. Ladies aren’t allowed to decorate properly. Yeah, there’s plenty of sexism concerned in it.”

Rebekah additionally mirrored on how the case has affected her personally because the authentic put up in 2019, admitting there have been factors the place she felt she “didn’t even wish to be right here anymore”.

She added: “It was just like the worst feeling however on the similar time having these emotions, feeling that I shouldn’t be feeling that as a result of to me that was being a failure and that was not an choice for me to be seen to be like that, for the children’ profit greater than something.”

The previous I’m a Superstar… Get Me Out of Right here! contestant has beforehand revealed that she was admitted to hospital twice to be handled for psychological well being points and feels that she might be affected by PTSD (post-traumatic stress dysfunction).

Reflecting on the prospect that she will return on treatment, she added: “It’s nothing to be ashamed of, if that helps then I’ll settle for it as a result of I believe everybody has to know their strengths and their weaknesses and level when they should ask for assist.”

The dispute started in 2019 when Coleen shared a put up saying she had carried out a months-long “sting operation” and accused Rebekah’s Instagram of leaking “false tales” about her non-public life to the press.

The spouse of former England star Wayne Rooney publicly claimed Rebekah’s account was the supply behind three tales in The Solar newspaper that includes pretend particulars she had posted on her non-public Instagram tales.

Rebekah denied leaking tales to the media and sued Coleen for libel with each ladies attending a week-long trial on the Excessive Court docket in London in Might, which attracted an enormous quantity of press consideration.

Chatting with TalkTV, Rebekah admitted she does remorse the dispute went so far as it did however constantly reaffirmed that she nonetheless believes she is harmless.

She added that she is “disillusioned” with the result of the trial, saying: “I didn’t anticipate it to go that means however I believe we had a decide that didn’t perceive the case and didn’t take a look at every part.

“It feels just like the decide simply learn what was written within the media and took on their narrative bias.”

She additionally revealed that at no level did her authorized crew warn her to not stick with it with the case, including: “As a result of they know I didn’t do it and that’s the actual purpose that I carried on for so long as I did and I’ll say that ’til I’m blue within the face, I didn’t do it.”

She added that she holds “no unwell emotions” in the direction of Coleen however feels that if she had witnessed the guy footballer’s spouse obtain the torrent of on-line abuse she had acquired she would have stepped in.

“I might have mentioned ‘no matter I say that she’s achieved, she doesn’t deserve and her household don’t should be abused the best way they’re’.

She continued: “As a result of if anybody’s abusing her now, if anybody’s sending her any horrible messages or her household any horrible messages, they simply have to cease as a result of nobody deserves to be subjected to that kind of abuse on any degree.”