Coleen Rooney 'cried and cried' after huge life decision with husband Wayne

Coleen Rooney has revealed that she couldn't stop crying after her and Wayne made a life changing decision six years ago.

Chatting to Fearne Cotton on the latest episode of her Happy Place podcast, she shared her emotion's as the couple swapped Merseyside for Washington DC, US in 2018, when Wayne Rooney left Everton to join D.C United.

Having previously lived near her parents, Coleen admitted that she struggled to adapt to life in the US without the support system of her wider family.

She told Fearne: "I had that experience when we moved to America, we moved to America for a year and it was so hard because I'd gone from having all of that support, and I would have loved for my mum and dad to come over but I couldn't be selfish on my brothers because they look after their children as well.

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"And, I found myself in this big new place with four children and my youngest was six months (old) at the time and I struggled. I did never think there was any such thing as home sickness, but it hit in really fast and hard, and I cried and cried and I'm not a crier, but I couldn't even face time my mum."

As her home sickness worsened, she explained how even the sight of her parent's on face time could have made matters worse.

The 38-year-old said: "My mum and dad would be on the FaceTime to the kids and I'd hear my mum go: 'Is your mum there?' and I be like (whispering) 'no, no'. I couldn't look at her, I just couldn't do it. It sounds like a big exaggeration but honestly it was just so hard."

While her time spent overseas came with its tests, the mum-of-four claimed that it did make her appreciate one thing in particular about life back in the UK.

She said: "It just made me so appreciative of what I did have and what we've now got, and we were only there a year, we were mean't to be there two years, but it was an experience and I got goodness off it, like appreciation, even our education system, we have got some good things that people don't realise until you move away."