Robbie warns that Wagatha Christie row could have led to suicide
ROBBIE WILLIAMS yesterday claimed t hat Coleen Rooney’s ‘Wag a th a Christie’ internet shaming of Rebekah Vardy could lead to suicide.
The singer’s astonishing intervention on the spat between the warring wives of footballers Wayne Rooney and Jamie Vardy came as he admitted he had attempted similar ‘stings’ himself to the elaborate trap set by motherof-four Rooney.
She was dubbed Wagatha Christie after revealing she had leaked fake stories on her private Instagram to discover who was passing information to the press – then melodramatically accused Vardy of being the culprit.
Williams, 45, said: ‘There was a dramatic over-correction.
‘ Let’s say Rebekah was guilty, which we don’t know. How she will feel inside right now is ten times worse than how Coleen would have felt when those things were happening to her. It’s a dangerous game to play.’
He told The Telegraph Magazine: ‘I get it. I’ve fed stories to different people. Fortunately, those stories did not make the press, so I went on trusting them, but I understand Coleen Rooney’s need for revenge and I would probably have done the same thing.
‘But we have to be very careful.
It’s suicide- causing provoking those levels of shame.’ Williams knows all about the perils of the internet and has banned himself from using Twitter unsupervised by ordering aides not to give him his own password.
Recently a new staff member not aware of the policy inadvertently gave him the password, which led to a 48-hour-long online binge from the former Take That star.
Williams said: ‘I became engulfed with resentment and anger and shame and fear and all those things. I was on a plane to Majorca and I phoned my manager and said – theatrical whisper – “I’ve found my password. Change it and don’t give it to me.”
‘ He said “Oh no, what have you done?”, and I said, “Just do it. I’m one tweet away from a career-ender.”
‘Because in anger I can be quite creative and my aggression would serve me badly.’
He added: ‘There would be people who were showing their disdain. And I’d go and find them and show my disdain back. And then I’d turn into a self-lacerating hate machine.’
Since her exposure, Rooney has not publicly discussed the scandal which Vardy has persistently denied her part in. Heavily pregnant Vardy, 37, has spoken about how t he drama would i mpact her unborn child and the danger of the strain.
Vardy, also a mother- of- four, reportedly even mounted her own investigation by calling in a forensic team to analyse her Instagram account and identify the mole who sold fake stories to the media from Rooney’s Instagram account.
Rooney, 33, told the world in her infamous Instagram post: ‘There has been so much information given to them about me, my friends and my family – all without my permission or knowledge.
‘After a long time of trying to figure out who it could be, for various reasons, I had a suspicion. To try and prove this, I came up with an idea, I blocked everyone from viewing Instagram except ONE account.’
‘Over the past five months I have posted a series of false stories to see if they made their way into the Sun newspaper.
‘And you know what, they did! The story about gender selection in Mexico, the story about returning to TV and then the latest story about the basement flood in my new house.
‘Now I know for certain which account/individual it’s come from.
‘I have saved and screenshotted all t he original stories which clearly show just one person has viewed them. It’s ......... Rebekah Vardy’s account.’