COLEEN ROONEY has revealed how she felt “ashamed” when husband-to-be Wayne went tat-too far with his teenage love.
But the awkward etching exchange ended with him explaining they would be “together forever”.
Coleen, 38, and the 39-year-old Manchester United legend wed in 2008.
But now she’s told of some tricky moments from the past, as well as the pressure Wayne‘s status has sometimes put on their family.
And one episode in particular stands out – from even before they got engaged in 2003 when she was 17.
It began when Coleen got a shock as the childhood sweethearts prepared to go out.
She explained to Sky Bet‘s Stick To Football podcast, hosted by ex-United defender Gary Neville, how it started with an odd phone call.
The 2024 I’m a Celebrity runner-up told Nev: “We were going to a party as one of our friends was turning 18, who was a bit older than us.
“That day, I got a phone call, and it was his cousin who asked me if I spelled my name with one L or two L’s.
“I said one L and asked why, and he said he was in the town with Wayne who was getting a tattoo!”
It appears it could have spelt disaster for him – but instead he found ‘one L’ of a way to get out of it.
Coleen continued: “He walks into the party with his top off, showing everyone – I felt ashamed.
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She also recalls one of their four kids, 15-year-old son Kai, missing a spot-kick “a few years ago” because of an insult about Wayne.
Coleen said: “Kai stepped up and just skied it.
“Afterwards I asked him how he could take a penalty like that, and he told me he was just fuming as the goalkeeper was saying: ‘Your dad’s sh*t’ and he got dead angry.
“It doesn’t happen to him very often, but it did then… He’s strong-minded though and usually shrugs it off.”
Kai, now 15, has put it behind him – as he’s now a junior with the Red Devils, and a lethal striker like his dad.
Meanwhile, ex-England skipper Wayne is looking for a new job after Championship bottom side Plymouth sacked him as boss a fortnight ago.