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ROONEY’S CHEATING SCANDAL

Wife opens up about sex worker drama

Coleen Rooney, the wife of philandering footballer Wayne Rooney, has spoken about his infidelity for the first time in her new book, My Account, saying she felt “hurt and shame” when he began visiting sex workers as a teenager.

The couple were childhood sweethearts and met when they were 12.

Coleen (37) says they had screaming matches over tabloid reports in 2002 that the then-16-year-old soccer star had sex with a 37-year-old sex worker and a 48-year-old grandmother who wore a rubber

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