Rebekah Vardy’s ex-husband has sensationally joined Coleen Rooney’s ‘team’ in the long-running ‘Wagatha Christie’ battle between the two footballers’ wives, MailOnline has learned.
Businessman Stephen Clarke, 56, who had a turbulent relationship with ex-party planner Becky around 2005 -- long before she married Leicester City striker Jamie Vardy, is among the witnesses who have given statements to support Coleen’s case, according to sources.
Mr Clarke was tight-lipped about his evidence when approached by MailOnline, but in the past he has vehemently denied Becky’s allegations that he abused her during their time together.
Businessman Stephen Clarke (pictured), 56, who had a turbulent relationship with ex-party planner Becky around 2005 is among the witnesses who have given statements to support Coleen’s case, according to sources
A source said: ‘Steve Clarke was Becky’s second husband and knows her as well as anyone, so if he’s called to give his evidence in court, it could be a bombshell.’
In 2017, Becky claimed in an interview with The Sun that their 10 months together when she was in her early 20s was ‘hell’.
She said: ‘I know marrying three times makes me sound like Zsa Zsa Gabor, but after a difficult childhood I made some stupid mistakes and went out with some real-life snakes!’
Becky, now 39, began dating Mr Clarke, her boss at a timeshare company, after her first marriage to Mark Godden broke down.
She said of her marriage to Mr Clarke: ‘That quickly became a horrible relationship — I was scared of him. He’d tell me what to do, where to be and how to act.
She wed Mr Clarke when she was 23 and eight months pregnant by another man. She said: ‘It was the biggest mistake of my life.’
Weeks later, she had eldest daughter Megan, now 16, but she has never named the father.
Mother-of-five Becky told The Sun: ‘As soon as she was born he made us move abroad. He claimed he owed money and wanted us to run away to Cyprus.
‘It went downhill from there. He became violent towards me. He cheated, he lied.
‘It lasted ten months before I escaped back to the UK with my baby after he cheated on me.’
Rebekah Vardy (pictured), now 39, began dating Mr Clarke, her boss at a timeshare company, after her first marriage to Mark Godden broke down
Weeks later Clarke was sentenced to two years’ jail after his conviction for causing death by reckless driving in a
