Overview
- Vardy, speaking while promoting her ITV show The Vardys on Friday, May 29, 2026, said she will never apologise for something she insists she did not do.
- The high‑profile libel case concluded in July 2022 when a judge found Coleen Rooney’s public claims to be 'substantially true' and ordered Vardy to pay the bulk of Rooney’s legal costs.
- Vardy described severe personal harm from the saga, saying she questioned the point of existing and revealing she received violent and hateful messages, including threats against her unborn child.
- She told interviewers she was offered a settlement by Rooney’s side during the proceedings and accused Rooney’s barrister David Sherborne of bullying her and of confusing courtroom references such as 'Davy Jones’s locker.'
- The return of the story as Vardy promotes her show highlights tensions between social media, tabloid reporting and UK defamation law, and it underlines the steep legal costs and mental‑health risks public figures can face under intense online scrutiny.