My Account: The official autobiography
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GIVE THE STORY ON EVERYONE’S LIPS THIS CHRISTMAS: COLEEN ROONEY’S OFFICIAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY.
A candid, intimate, behind the scenes look at the reality of a life lived on social media and under the scrutiny of the public eye.
‘It was the biggest thing that had ever happened to me, and like nothing I’d ever experienced…
Looking back on it now, it still amazes me how inflated it all got, how ridiculous, how serious.
That’s why I need to tell what happened in full…’
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Coleen Rooney has always been true to herself.
In My Account, she tells us how her upbringing prepared her for a life in the full glare of public and media scrutiny. In fact, from an early age, she was no stranger to responsibility, having two younger brothers as well as welcoming disabled foster sister Rosie into the family.
At just seventeen, she and boyfriend Wayne left their childhood homes to live together and
in time they had their own young family to care for. But being married to one of the world’s most successful sportsmen has also meant that any private difficulties they faced were inevitably exposed very publicly.
And that is no more true than in the now infamous tale of how a casual acquaintance of
Coleen’s ended in an extraordinary deception.
Here, she recounts how she first suspected someone was betraying her trust (and how devastated it left her), and then the meticulous steps she took to identify, trap and finally reveal to the world her suspect.
With the consequences playing out around the world and Coleen dragged unwillingly into a devastating court case whose outcome was far from certain, only now can she candidly give us her side of the story.
This, then, is My Account, Coleen Rooney’s tale of what it means to stand up for yourself and your family.
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| Publisher | Michael Joseph (9 Nov. 2023) |
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| Language | English |
| Hardcover | 320 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 0241673267 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0241673263 |
| Dimensions | 16.2 x 3.6 x 23.6 cm |
by Rebecca Ellis
I really wanted to enjoy this book, I really enjoyed the Wagatha show on Disney + & thought I’d enjoy this book. Unfortunately the wagatha case wasn’t discussed until near the end & I just found all the childhood/growing up stuff so boring! I’m sure Coleen has another autobiography so I’m not sure why this needed repeating! I ended up skipping till the Wagatha case, I did enjoy the whatsapp/ instagram message transcript with Coleen and Rebecka. But unfortunately I really don’t recommend this book.
by Richard Nambaale
Mrs. Coleen Rooney — ‘My Account’ book
On reading Mrs. Coleen Rooney latest book – “My Account”, I came to realise what an ordeal she had to endure due to the malice carried out by someone She regarded as “a friend” to such extent that the so called “friend” even had the audacity to publish private information about Mrs. Coleen in national newspapers behind her back buy by erroneously relaying information about her private life to the media.
In “My Account” she has opened up her heart to us and given us a glimpse of what has been going on in her private life, her teenage years, upbringing, school, meeting her husband, getting married and being a loving and a caring mother and how she is combining that with parenting, being a wife and working at the same time. She is one of the person who is always in the public eye since she become a vogue star many years ago. She sheds light on her life and on her husband and how he sometimes tries to deal with certain challenging situations in his life as a man. At the age he became a public figure, he was meant to make mistakes. We have all made mistakes and done things in life that we have later regretted; and he is not alone in that. There is that perception in some of us that tends to assume that when someone is in the public eye, everyone else should expects them to be like “angels” while we ourselves are not. We all unfortunately fall short of God’s glory but people in the public eye tends to get abusive comments, insults and bad publicity is turned against them whenever they don’t live up to the expectations It is as if those who are making such comments or publicity are Angel’s themselves, which is not the case.
We all know Wayne Rooney has made mistakes as a young man but we have all made mistakes too – some of us even worse than what he has done. It doesn’t make him a bad person, it only means that he is a human being who is learning from his own mistakes as we all do. Mainstream media should stop trying to capitalise on people’s weaknesses and mistakes just because they are public figures. We don’t need hawk’s or vampires or so called “infected pustules” against humanity in the media, we need people with unequivocal morals and integrity. People who create media content that is truthful and righteous built on professional journalism and ethical standards that guarantees society harmony and that strengthens cohesion by adhering to moral obligations.
She also writes about her husband and how he sometimes can go on an alcohol binge when he feels that something is not right and when he finds it difficult to deal with it. Many of us men unfortunately have that behaviour and it is a kind of weakness that runs in our DNA – instead of talking about the issues at hand or trying to find the solution, we try to push it down the bottle. By the time the bottle is empty, what was a small issue has turned out to be a big issue. Stupid flesh, that is! We think that we can solve intricate issues when we are out of self-control and when discipline is not in us. I always tell people that alcohol is something that is one of the worst destroyers of relationships and it doesn’t only mean man and woman relationships, but any relationship because the mere fact that alcohol diminishes our self-control and discipline, it makes us our own enemy or and enemy to the other people. We lose it. Many of us can not handle alcohol and if we see that it has a detrimental impact on our wellbeing and mental health, we should immediately stop using it or decrease its consumption by all means possible. Thete are many people in both the showbusiness and in sports who have suffered from it and who have given accounts of their own experiences and how it affected them and their lives and relationships with other people.
I recently read Tony Adam autobiography in which he admits to have suffered from alcohol abuse and how he even played football under the influence of it; how he slept with women whom he couldn’t remember the following day and how he later lost his first relationship with his first wife. But he learned from his mistakes and became a transformed man and right now, he is helping others not to fall into the same traps as he did. The story of Gazza is well known to many of us. Also miss Alex Scott admitted in her book – “How (not) to be strong” and how she experienced and suffered from alcohol abuse and how she sometimes felt that she found consolation in the bottle yet to realise later that the more she succumbed to alcohol abuse, the less she recognised herself. And she also talks about her father in her book and how alcohol turned a loving father into a violent and unrecognisable person – forcing her mother to endure years of abuse and mistreatment. Of recent former Friends actor Mathew Perry passed away due to years of both alcohol and drug abuse – only 54 years of age and a mega millionaire found death outside his house. Behind the curtains of “Friends” sitcom famous comedy TV show, one of the actors was running on alcohol and opioid addiction. Unfortunately, he has left us too soon. Rest in peace. Many people do manage to go away from it and find peace and harmony and live a life of sobriety; others are not so lucky. I read about a story of Steph MacLeod who spent several years on the street homeless due to alcohol but who eventually managed to turn his life around and he is now a loving husband and father to three children and singing gospel music. God helped him to turn his life around.
Change must come within though and it does if we realise ourselves how alcohol or drugs affects us and if we find out that it affects our lives and those we love in a very detrimental way, then we should and must take action. At times it is easy to realise the problem but very difficult to change the behaviour. It is also very easy to learn a bad behaviour, but it takes an enormous amount of time, dedication, desire and determination to change oneself. We should not allow it to destroy our relationships with other people nor to reach that extent of damaging our own lives. Yet, change must come within by seeing and realising what is most important in life — a healthy life and a loving family life or a life that is uncontrolled and succumbs to the whims of alcohol or drugs?
It is wonderful to see how the Rooneys have made it in life and the inspiration Wayne Rooney has given to young people across the globe throughout his career as a footballer. He has helped to change many young people’s lives as he has became a role model for them in football. And he is still doing that as a manager across the Atlantic. In England, he will always be a hero and a role model for many.
The last part of the book is focused on a subject of the social media and the main media outlets and how some so called “inffected pustules” of humanity, if I may borrow Prince Harry’s words from his Spare book, uses social media and then some mainstream media to tarnish other people’s lives. At times, we are fed rubbish and nuisance and it is put in so called “News”. We are fed with junk and some of us unfortunately just tuck in as we are missing a godly and spiritual filter in our souls. It is sad to read about the person whom Mrs. Rooney named in her book, whom is here anagrammed to Ms. Rebexa Vaddex, and who caused Mr. Rooney such anguish and hurt to the point of having the audacity of drugging her to court for apparently accuses her of causing “her” defamation. The paradoxes of such conduct and behaviours can only come from such personalities whom Prince Harry refers to as “infected pustules against humanity”. The name similarities of Ms. Rebex Vaddex and the one Prince Harry refers too in his Spare book, are of such horrendous characters and inhumane behaviours as well as the resemblance of their names are so strikingly similar – not to mention the Media outlet itself which uses them in pursuit of destroying other people’s lives while they are erroneously looking for “shocking junk News” headlines.
For someone who was abused as a young girl – as she later confessed in the media, instead of seeking professional advise and help, she has decided to dedicate her life to now tarnishing a Christian denomination by waging a crusade against a religion which is helping millions of people worldwide from the path of behavioural destruction and self harm to a better way of a loving life. It is sad to read about it online well knowing that she is not only hurting herself but her family too. You simply don’t fight against a religion unless you have some very serious personal problems. We may have sympathy for her for having been abused and violated when she was you and we all do agree that that was wrong but hurt people should and must not mean hurting others. We need and must stop that chain of destructive behaviours. We need to forgive so that we can heal. We can not heal if we don’t forgive ourselves and those who wronged us in life because if we don’t forgive, we keep hurting and bleeding inside and eventually that anguish, frustration and bitterness will end up other people, which has happened now as she turned her destructive behaviours towards Mrs. Rooney.
Consequently, having developed bad behaviours and mistrust due to the hurt Ms. Rebexa Vaddex experienced, she has turned her resentment, frustrations and anger in trying also to tarnish a Christian religious denomination as well as publicly trying to destroy other people’s lives. The behaviour also cast a doubt about the conduct of some mainstream media outlets — their authenticity, character, dignity, integrity, morality, professionalism — and put in question the validity of an expected zerous and journalistic approach without ambiguity nor any unrighteous conduct towards the public they are meant to serve. A failure to adhere to good, ethical and moral obligations only help to render such media out useless and lacking respect to other people’s lives and integrity while disintegrating into a conundrum bereft of societal moral obligations.
It has to be said that it looks like Mrs. Rooney’s Christian upbringing has given her a very good moral foundation and ushered an eternal godly compass in her life, which has given her a robust personal integrity, dignity, her sense of righteousness, truth and trustworthy nature as a person. It has helped her to deal with situations that many other people would walk away from while thinking that it is greener on the other side. It takes a heart and a soul to forgive a betrayal or mistrust. True divine love conquers all storms though and no mountain nor any storm is higher than the most high.
Forgiveness and reconciliation helps us to deal with the challenges of life as it helps us to heal. The solutions to life’s challenges are not always out there in the society or by listening to lots of people who even don’t understand what the word “to forgive” means, it is within our hearts and in our souls. Yet, true love requires robust trust that’s why it is very important that we should all work hard in our lives to make sure that that trust is not tampered with or put in doubt if we are to maintain healthy and loving relationships.
True love and trust go hand in hand. To uphold to that trust, most of the times it requires changing our habits and behaviours so that trust is rebuilt and maintained – and it is never a one sided process but rather reciprocal and mutual. Any loving and healthy family life requires sacrifice and any loving, happy, joyful and harmonious relationship consists of two great forgivers and two great peacemakers. Forgiveness helps us to reconcile our differences and helps us to heal and rebuild trust but in so doing, we must be able to sacrifice certain things in our lives by promising ourselves that certain habits must be changed in our lives so that we don’t go back to such destructive ways of life.
None of us is perfect and we all make mistakes and we all fall short of God’s glory somehow. We are full of foibles, weaknesses as well as strength, courage, humility, compassion, wisdom and that goodness within us– the gift of God — eternal love, wisdom and peace requires us all to uphold on to discipline and to self-control so that we may continue to nurture trust, love, joy, happiness and peace within ourselves. And yes, we have to be grateful for what we are blessed with, which Mrs. Coleen also admits to in her book.
Read it and you will learn a lot about yourself– as a woman and as a husband or as a man to another woman and as a person. But you will also learn that social media should be used for good reasons, not to mess up other people’s lives. We all need to be more cautious about what we put out there — something of good intentions might be seen differently by other people. Change of language and content is paramount so that we don’t encourage bad behaviours to be manifested online or in our lives but to instead promote behaviours and conducts that build us all up. This creates a healthy atmosphere and environment for all of us – it enriches us spiritually. Choose your language carefully, avoid vulgarity, profane language and don’t post each and everything that comes to your mind. Don’t post anything while you are under the influence of alcohol or drugs because in such a condition, your self-control and discipline is most diminished. Self-control and self-respect is very important. Immoral contents and contemptuous or sinister behaviours should be avoided. No one has a right to hurt other people’s lives, neither online nor in any other ways, that’s not what social media is for. Be careful, respectful, self-conscious, retain self-control and hold on to discipline because that shows maturity. Respect yourself and respect other people the way they are – even when they are in the wrong.
Choose to Love not to hate because love comes naturally to the human heart that its opposite and love helps us to heal. In love, we are healed and blessed.
Richard Nambaale