The 38-year-old said despite “difficult” times in her marriage with the ex-footballer, the couple are “happy now”. In 2017, Wayne was ordered to complete 100 hours of unpaid community work after admitting being nearly three times the legal drink drive limit while at the wheel of another woman’s car following a night out. At the time, he issued an apology for his “unforgivable lack of judgment” which he described as “completely wrong”.
It came after Wayne issued a statement in 2004 admitting he had on occasion visited “massage parlours and prostitutes” when he was “very young and immature” and before he had “settled down with Coleen”. “Since the first mistake he’s made, that’s been in the public, people have not forgiven,” Rooney told fellow campmate Oti Mabuse on the STV show. “When things have happened the public have wanted it to just go oh, split, you know, that’s it, split them up.
But the fact is, there’s always been love still there...
“It has been difficult, but we’re happy now, after all those years...
we’re a team.” Rooney said the couple, who first met at school and began dating aged 16, had “felt older because we had to grow up quick, because we were living in the public eye”. “All he wanted to do was play football, he struggled with the fame side of it, he hated that,” she said.
“If he could’ve just played football and had none of the fame I think he would’ve been happier within life.” Rooney admi.