Rebekah Vardy will lay bare the details of her troubled childhood in a documentary.
She grew up as a Jehovah’s Witness, and says the religious movement failed to support her when she was abused as a girl.
Rebekah, 41, who has also talked about being bullied when she was young, is fronting the programme.
It will also tell the traumatic stories of other people.
The Channel 4 documentary – Rebekah Vardy : The Jehovah’s Witnesses and Me – is due to be screened on May 16.
Channel 4 said: “This film shows a side to one of the UK’s most famous women that has not been told before.”
It comes 10 months after Rebekah lost her Wagatha Christie libel case against Coleen Rooney.
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Rebekah brought the High Court legal action due to being named by Coleen as the source of stories being leaked to a newspaper.
A source close to Rebekah said: “After the court case, she was offered lots of TV things about the Wagatha Christie case and did not want to engage.
“Then Channel 4 got in touch with this project they had been planning for a while, looking for someone to front it.
“She was very keen and it all started from there.
“It’s a Panorama-style documentary, very serious.
“When she interviews people, their stories are harrowing and her own story is a hard one as well. It is a very different Rebekah from the one people think they know.”
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Mum-of-five Rebekah – married to Leicester City and England footballer Jamie, 36 – previously revealed she was abused for years.
She said on Instagram : “The year I turned 15 was [when] my life really started to spiral out of control.
“From the age of 12 I had been sexually abused by someone I had trusted. I had already taken an overdose of pills and vodka in an attempt to end the awful feelings of shame, fear and anger that I couldn’t find another way to escape from. I already hated myself...
“I was made homeless and ended up sleeping on sofas. I was 15 and should still have been a child.”
On being picked on as a girl because of being a Jehovah’s Witness at the time, she said in 2017: “It was horrific.”
* Rebekah Vardy: The Jehovah’s Witnesses and Me is on Channel 4 on May 16 at 10pm.