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6 WAGs who spoke out about their allegedly cheating husbands: from Victoria Beckham in Netflix docu Beckham, to Khloé Kardashian, Dwyane Wade’s wife Gabrielle Union and Tiger Woods’ ex Elin Nordegren

Victoria Beckham, Wayne Rooney’s wife Coleen and Gabrielle Union have all
faced cheating scandals from their partners. Photos: Reuters; AFP; @gabunion/Instagram
Victoria Beckham, Wayne Rooney’s wife Coleen and Gabrielle Union have all faced cheating scandals from their partners. Photos: Reuters; AFP; @gabunion/Instagram

  • From the Netflix docu that touched on David Beckham’s Rebecca Loos scandal, to the Amazon Prime film where Coleen Rooney opened up about husband Wayne’s infidelity, WAGs have been speaking out
  • It’s not just British footballers who have been up to no good, as Khloé Kardashian, Elin Nordegren and Gabrielle Union can attest – Tiger Woods even shook the golf world by sleeping with 120 other women

Sporting heroes like David Beckham, Dwayne Wade and Tiger Woods probably never asked to be famous – their talent dictated it from a young age. But once you’re in the public spotlight, there’s a whole new set of challenges to navigate.

From poorly judged teenage visits and hired escorts, to parties and tours away from home, some of the world’s most well-known sportsmen have allegedly cheated on their wives or girlfriends. And even if they didn’t, the fallout from any scandal that makes global headlines often places their partners into a tricky position and causes them untold pain.

But not all of the wronged WAGs stay silent. These women decided to tell their side of the story in one way or another …

1. Coleen Rooney

British footballer Wayne Rooney and girlfriend Colleen McLoughlin arrive for a pre-World Cup party at the Hertfordshire home of David and Victoria Beckham in 2006. Photo: Reuters
British footballer Wayne Rooney and girlfriend Colleen McLoughlin arrive for a pre-World Cup party at the Hertfordshire home of David and Victoria Beckham in 2006. Photo: Reuters
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Coleen Rooney has put up with more than most from her husband Wayne Rooney. She and Wayne were dating when he rose to fame as one of Manchester United’s top scorers in the mid-2000s, according to The Guardian. But before they’d even slept together, Rooney had already hired several sex workers. Despite this, the pair wed four years later and had children – only for Coleen to discover he’d strayed again while she was pregnant.

“You have so many people saying different things to you,” Coleen admitted in last year’s Amazon Prime documentary Rooney. “‘Oh why is she getting back with him?’” She added that, in those moments, she found it best to trust her gut feeling about what to do, as well as get support from her parents.

“Hopefully he’s learnt and he doesn’t get himself into any of those horrible situations again. But it’s happened and I’ve got to live with it,” she said.

2. Victoria Beckham

David and Victoria Beckham in 2008. Photo: Reuters
David and Victoria Beckham in 2008. Photo: Reuters
The Manchester United star and former Spice Girl started trending again recently when Netflix released its much-anticipated documentary about the footballer, Beckham. Fans had to wait until the final episode to discover what the couple had to say about the alleged affair between David and Rebecca Loos, his former assistant at Real Madrid, in 2003.

“It was the hardest period because it felt like the world was against us,” Victoria admitted on the show, adding the couple were also pitted against each other at the time. “I can’t even begin to tell you how hard it was and how it affected me. It was a nightmare,” she added.