Caroline Flack‘s mum Christine has spoken about her battle to help her late daughter see she had a ‘fabulous career and nice home’ before her suicide.
The Love Island presenter died from suicide on 15 February this year at the age of 40 and 10 months on, her beloved mother has spoken to ITV Anglia about the star.
She detailed: ‘We tried to talk to her and say you’ve got this fabulous career and you’ve got a nice home. But actually, that doesn’t matter, because that isn’t how they feel. I think when someone is in that place, what we say isn’t being heard.’
Pained: Caroline Flack’s mum Christine has spoken about her battle to help her late daughter see she had a ‘fabulous career and nice home’ before her suicide
Amid widespread discussion over Caroline’s heartbreaking mental health battle after her suicide, in hindsight, Christine revealed her daughter feared her vulnerability would be exposed to her fans and followers.
Christine went on: ‘She was always frightened that the public would find out that she was vulnerable and she had these dark feelings. I used to sit with Caroline and watch television, the same as everybody else, and I would say, ‘Oh I don’t like them’.
‘And she’d say: ‘Mum, you don’t even know them.’ It made me stop and think, no I don’t. We judge people and we don’t know them. We don’t know what they’re going through.’
Caroline’s death came one day after hearing the Crown Prosecution Service would go ahead with a trial for allegedly attacking her model and former tennis player boyfriend Lewis Burton, 27, in December.
Her love: The Love Island presenter died from suicide on 15 February this year at the age of 40 and 10 months on, her beloved mother has spoken to ITV Anglia about the star (pictured in June last year)
Her death was ruled a suicide in an inquest in August this year, with coroner Mary Hassell, saying: ‘The key decision for me to make is whether Caroline took her own life. I have to be satisfied she acted in a way so as to cause her death, and secondly that she intended to cause her death.
‘In Caroline’s case I am entirely satisfied she intended to cause her own death. She hanged herself. She had only one expectation – her own death. There’s no doubt in my mind at all.’
The coroner said Flack had experienced ‘fluctuating ill health’ and was ‘distressed’ at the thought of facing a trial.
Way back when: Caroline’s death came one day after hearing the Crown Prosecution Service would go ahead with a trial for allegedly attacking her model and former tennis player boyfriend Lewis Burton, 27, in December (the couple, pictured last year)
She said: ‘Caroline had fluctuating mental ill health, she had had struggles in the past. She had had difficulties…
‘In spite of the fact she may have led – to some – a charmed life, actually the more famous she got the more some of these difficulties increased – she had to deal with the media in a way most of us don’t…
‘It was played out in the national press – and that was incredibly difficult for her. She faced the prospect of not working in the job she loved, losing a great deal…
‘I find the reason for her taking her life was she now knew she was being prosecuted for certainty, and she knew she would face the media, press, publicity – it would all come down upon her. To me, that’s it in essence.’
Strutting her stuff: Amid widespread discussion over Caroline’s heartbreaking mental health battle after her suicide, in hindsight, Christine revealed her daughter feared her vulnerability would be exposed to her fans and followers
At the time, Christine wept as she told the coroner over video-link: ‘I totally agree, I think you got it spot on. We know you are not allowed to say certain things and it’s up to us if we want to take it any further, and we don’t. You’re spot on.’
Concluding, the coroner recorded a death of suicide caused by hanging.
Mrs Hassell said: ‘Caroline hanged herself at home on the morning of February 15 because of an exacerbation of fluctuating ill health and distress.’
If you have been affected by this story, you can call the Samaritans on 116 123 or visit www.samaritans.org
Source: Daily Mail
