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It’s not acceptable Wayne cheated but I’ve forgiven him, says Coleen Rooney as she speaks for first time about affairs
COLEEN Rooney has laid bare her fury over cheating hubby Wayne for the first time — saying that his numerous affairs were “not acceptable”.
The embattled Wag, 35, says she felt anger over the striker’s behaviour and said friends asked her why she had stuck by the former England and Man Utd ace after he was caught romping with prostitutes behind her back.
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Childhood sweetheart Coleen said it was amazing that their 13-year-marriage has survived, and she chose not to leave him partly for the sake of their boys.
She tells Amazon documentary Rooney, out this Friday: “Life goes on and I’ve moved on. You’ve moved on. Not the behaviour, no. It’s not acceptable.
“Forgiveness I’d say is different. It’s not acceptable what he’s done but it’s happened and that was a stage of life that we were in at the time. But we’ve moved on.
“I forgive him but it wasn’t acceptable. If it comes up we talk about it like we are talking about it now. I haven’t got the anger I did at the time.”
She added: “I do think it’s amazing that we are where we are today. We’re lucky that we both had the strength and support of each other and the people around us to keep going. That’s something we’ve had to work hard at.
“I wouldn’t be standing here if I hadn’t forgiven him.”
Coleen, mum to Kai, Klay, Cass and Kit, admitted Wayne was no longer allowed to drink unsupervised, as we revealed on Saturday.
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The Derby County boss had to apologise to the club and Coleen last July for being snapped asleep in a budget hotel room with a group of scantily clad women.
'Not good for him'
She insists that the 36-year-old has a responsible adult — either her brother Joe or someone else she trusts — to keep an eye on him so he does not stray while drunk.
Coleen said: “I knew groups that Wayne was hanging around with that weren’t good for him.
“Lovely people but together, with alcohol, not good and I told him that from day one.
“I didn’t want him to stop being friends with them but I didn’t want him to go out with them because they got in bad situations.
“It’s not a good thing for Wayne to be unsupervised.”
Wayne’s 2004 visit to a back-street Liverpool brothel also features in the documentary.
He blames alcohol but had to put up with the fallout, which came days before his £30million move from Everton to Man United.
He said: “I put myself in the wrong place and when alcohol is involved you’re going to make bad decisions and suffer the consequences. It doesn’t take away my love for Coleen. I held my hands up, that’s it. We worked through it.”
But in the film — for which the couple are being paid about £1million plus a share of syndication profits — Coleen admits that she did think about leaving.
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Vice 'n' booze shame
IN 2002 17-year-old Wayne paid Charlotte Glover, then 21, £140 to sleep with her.
Next month he allegedly had sex with Gina McCarrick plus a rubber-catsuit-wearing gran, 48, known as Auld Slapper.
He visited their £45-a-time brothel in Liverpool ten times.
In 2011, it was reported he romped with vice girls Jenny Thompson and Helen Wood.
In 2017, he admitted drink-driving in party girl Laura Simpson’s VW and got a two-year ban.
More boozing followed his move to US team DC United.
In July, he was photographed asleep in a hotel room with three women.
She said: “When you are making those decisions you’ve got to focus on what you want, not what anyone else is saying. I listen to the people that matter — my mum and dad — and they’ve always given me a positive outlook on things.
“We are in a situation so let’s sit down, see what we can do and can we make it work, and we have.
“We’re not the lovey-dovey type anyway. We like to have a laugh together and work well together.
“People say, ‘Were they just staying together to keep the family unit together?’. That was part of it but also we still love each other.
“Hopefully, he’s learned and doesn’t get himself into those horrible situations again.” Wayne tells the film: “It’s important that teammates, friends, family remember me for who I am rather than what I’ve done.
“Stuff that has happened in the past, with girls for instance. Stuff I regret. It’s something I feel that has stuck against my name.
“I think it’s important because it is part of what has happened with my life growing up. People still see that and look at me in a different way. I’m not that type of person.”
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Wayne and Coleen attended a premiere showing of the TV film in Manchester last night.
- ROONEY will be available on Amazon Prime this Friday
Brawls at concerts and jaw ‘snapped’
By MARTIN LIPTON
WAYNE says he used to get into fights in Manchester and once had his jaw broken.
He said: “I wasn’t the nicest kid at that age.
“I wouldn’t say I was a bully but there were things I shouldn’t have done. I crossed the line.
“I don’t know if it was anger. Sometimes you got hit and that’s not nice but I used to get some enjoyment out of it.
“I used to go to concerts — Stereophonics, Cast, who were a Liverpool band. There was normally a lot of fighting at the end. You can imagine in the mosh pit there’s probably about 15 of us, all Scousers in the middle of Manchester, and it would end up with a fight.
“I got my jaw snapped once. I was about 13 and some guy grabs hold of me and hit me.
“He went to hit me again and I just dropped and threw a big haymaker and caught him then I ran off.
“We wouldn’t go knowing there’d be a fight but knew there was a chance.
“I’ve come back from Southport with my eye all stitched up and again my mum wasn’t happy. I was probably about 12.
“It’s almost like you’re not going to get any favours from the government or from any people in power so you have to make your own way of living. For kids at that age, you have to fight.”
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