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Coleen Rooney shared her emotions during a conversation on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast about the challenges she faced when moving from Merseyside to Washington DC in 2018 after her husband Wayne Rooney joined D.C. United. She explained her unexpected encounter with homesickness due to being away from her family support system.
Coleen Rooney said “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 homesickness worsened, Coleen discussed how seeing her parents on FaceTime could have intensified her emotions during that difficult time in the US.
Coleen Rooney 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.”
Reflecting on her experience, Coleen mentioned that the time spent overseas made her more appreciative of certain aspects of life back in the UK.
Coleen Rooney 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 meant 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.”
