The so-called “Wagatha Christie” trial, which was Britain’s star-studded affair, has concluded with Rebekah Vardy losing her libel case — a type of defamation in written form — against fellow soccer star wife Coleen Rooney.

The UK High Court ruled against Vardy and in favor Rooney after a years’ long dispute between the soccer players’ wives and girlfriends. The trial saw some mysterious twist and turns as well.

Judge Justice Steyn delivered her written verdict Friday after a two-week trial in May.

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This comes two years after Vardy sued Rooney for defamation after a dispute over a series of Instagram posts. According to Rooney, stories from her private Instagram account were leaked by Vardy to journalists at British tabloid newspaper The Sun.

However, Vardy denied the claims, saying that the accusations had caused her “public abuse on a massive scale.” She sued Rooney in an attempt to clear her name.

However, in her ruling Friday, Steyn said it was “likely” that Vardy’s then-agent Caroline Watt “undertook the direct act” of passing information to The Sun.

“The evidence … clearly shows, in my view, that Mrs Vardy knew of and condoned this behavior, actively engaging in it by directing Ms Watt to the private Instagram account, sending her screenshots of Mrs Rooney’s posts, drawing attention to items of potential interest to the press, and answering additional queries raised by the press via Ms Watt,” she said.

In May, the case went to a seven-day trial in which Rooney, 36, and Vardy, 40, shared their accounts.

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In her ruling Friday, Judge Steyn said that Vardy suffered “a degree of self-deception” and that “there were many occasions” when Vardy’s evidence “was manifestly inconsistent.”

Steyn also noted that while Vardy may have felt “genuinely offended by the accusation made against her by Mrs Rooney in the reveal post” the accusations of libel were unsubstantiated.

Rooney reacted to the ruling in a statement to PA news agency. 

“Naturally, I am pleased that the judge has found in my favor with her judgement today,” she said.