Wayne Rooney's huge life change caused wife Coleen to 'cry and cry' she reveals

Coleen Rooney has admitted that she struggled to hold back tears after her husband made a huge career change in 2018.

Speaking to Fearne Cotton on the most recent episode of her Happy Place podcast, the mum-of-four revealed she struggled to adapt to life away from home after Wayne Rooney made the switch from Everton to DC United in Washington, US.

Having had her close-knit wider family on hand for extra child care needs, she claims that her move abroad to the US proved to be a difficult time in her life, reports the Liverpool Echo.

She said: "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," the 38-year-old added.

As her desire to be back home in the UK grew more desperate, she said that even the sight of her parent's on face time was unbearable: "My mum and dad would be on the face time 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."

But, despite the testing time spent in the US capital, the TV personality admitted that it did make her appreciate one thing about life back home in the UK.

She added: "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."