Vardy said she believed she was suffering from PTSD after losing the case and now had a full-time security chief at her Leicestershire home after receiving 100 abusive messages a day. Speaking to the Sun, Vardy said: “The whole thing was awful. At worst, I worried about being alone, leaving home. I was afraid to go out in public. Even the smallest things, like going shopping, were horrible.” He added: “Everyone always says, ‘These people wouldn’t say things to your face’, but you actually have the few who go the extra mile. The abuse I was receiving was insane. I was linked to the disappearance of Madeleine McCann, people telling me I was a member of IS, things like that. It was like I had murdered someone.” Vardy reiterated her claim that she never leaked stories about Rooney to the tabloids. In the High Court ruling handed down on Friday in the libel case, the judge concluded that Vardy likely worked with her agent, Caroline Watt, to leak stories from Rooney’s private Instagram account to the Sun. The accusation came from Rooney in October 2019, who accused Vardy of leaking false stories about her private life to the media. Subscribe to First Edition, our free daily newsletter – every morning at 7am. BST In an extract from an interview with TalkTV, Vardy said: “I’ll say it until I’m blue in the face. I didn’t.” He now faces a hefty legal bill, reportedly around £3million, after deciding to take the case to trial. Vardy, who is married to Leicester City footballer Jamie Vardy, also accused Rooney of “weaponizing” her fans during the trial. She said Rooney’s decision to publicly accuse her was “bad” and that she initially thought it “wasn’t real”. Vardy said she confronted Rooney over the phone about her original accusation. She said: “I picked up the phone and called her and basically said, ‘What the hell is this?’ and her response was quite, I don’t know, quite rude, quite harsh.” He added: “He basically just said, ‘You know what this is.’ And at that point, I really didn’t know what it was.”
