Coleen Rooney said her husband Wayne has not been forgiven in the court of public opinion over previous mistakes, during the latest episode of I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!.
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 to being nearly three times the legal drink drive limit while at the wheel of another woman’s car following a night out.
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At the time, he issued an apology for his “unforgivable lack of judgment” which he described as “completely wrong”.
It came after Wayne stated in 2004 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 ITV 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.
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“If he could’ve just played football and had none of the fame I think he would’ve been happier within life.”
Rooney admitted that her husband, who is head coach of Championship club Plymouth Argyle, always wrote her poems.
“You know the hotel pads? He was always writing a little poem and putting it in his bag and he’d give it to me when we got home,” she told campmate and podcaster GK Barry.
“They’re nice to keep but I can’t remember the last time he gave me one.”
I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out Of Here! continues on ITV1 and ITVX.
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