Rebekah Vardy is left 'devastated and furious' as her son's father is jailed for three years for growing cannabis

Rebekah Vardy is reportedly 'furious' and 'devastated' after Luke Foster, the father of her son, was jailed for running a cannabis factory.

Ex-footballer Foster, 38, was handed a three year prison sentence after he admitted to growing the Class B drug along with two others last month.

The former defender for Oxford United and Preston North End has been imprisoned at HMP Nottingham.

Foster was with Mrs Vardy for six years and they had a son together before their break-up in 2013, which led to nasty battles being played out in the media.

Six months later, while working as a nightclub promoter, Rebekah met Jamie Vardy, who played for Leicester City, and they married in 2016.

Foster's conviction is said to have been 'devastating for Becky', according to a source who spoke to the Sun.

They said that after she found out she was 'furious' and branded the situation 'outrageous'.

The source said Mrs Vardy, 42, was only worried about protecting her son and that he is 'surrounded by people who love him', so that his father's conviction does not impact his school life or anything that could impact a teenager.

Foster faces a Proceeds of Crime Act hearing in July.

Rebekah Vardy declined to comment when a representative was approached by MailOnline.

Foster's and Mrs Vardy's disputes have been aired publicly in the past. When she appeared on I'm a Celeb in 2017, Foster blasted his ex for demanding the finer things in life in a bid to achieve the lifestyle of Victoria Beckham and become 'famous.'

He said: 'Becky liked the finer things in life. She wanted the biggest house on the street, expensive handbags. She drove my Merc, I had a Picasso. She wouldn't even let me drive my own car.'

He said he continued to please her by living out of their means, taking out an 'extortionate' mortgage on a townhouse in Northampton and getting 'another credit card.'

But she slammed his 'upsetting' claims as 'yet another untrue story on the mother of his [then] seven-year-old son'.

In response to his claims, a representative for Mrs Vardy told MailOnline at the time: 'Mr Foster has already made these claims via a friend in another newspaper over 18 months ago and Mrs Vardy made it very clear then that she had separated from Mr Foster months before meeting Jamie Vardy, although as a good mother she kept their family together in the same house for another couple of months so that the children had a "normal" Christmas without being uprooted and disrupted.

'There are many reasons why their relationship broke down, but prior to leaving for Australia this month Mrs Vardy was threatened by Mr Foster with the selling of stories, yet she advised us that she would choose not to comment directly about Mr Foster as he is the father of her son and she cares more about her son's well being and privacy than she does in publicly putting Mr Foster's name alongside a list of his wrongdoings in the past.

'Mr Foster has a new girlfriend and a new baby, he should put his efforts into focusing on them instead of still trying to hurt Mrs Vardy and in turn hurt his son who will no doubt hear about this story at school.'