Caroline Flack’s mom shares heartbreaking particulars in uncommon interview

Warning: This text incorporates dialogue of suicide which some readers might discover distressing.

Caroline Flack’s mom has shared some extra heartbreaking particulars about her daughter in a uncommon interview about her demise.

Christine spoke to The Guardian forward of the brand new documentary Caroline Flack: Search For The Fact which focuses on the TV presenter’s life within the few months earlier than she tragically took her personal life.

The previous Love Island host was discovered lifeless in her London flat in February 2020, having suffered a barrage of abuse from social media and the press within the wake of her arrest in December 2019.

Flack was arrested shortly after discovering that her associate on the time, Lewis Burton had been dishonest, with the superstar admitting to police that she hit her boyfriend spherical the pinnacle along with his cellphone.

She mentioned: “I had his cellphone in a single hand and mine within the different. I whacked him spherical the pinnacle. There was no excuse for it. I used to be simply upset. I admit I did it. He was dishonest on me.”

Though police allegedly steered {that a} warning could be adequate, she was later charged with assault, and the 40-year-old would lose her job on Love Island in consequence.

Flack additionally misplaced her house, as media continued to harass her within the wake of the fees being introduced towards her, and texts revealed that the favored host was severely struggling together with her psychological well being.

On 15 February, a day after her authorized group’s makes an attempt to have the case thrown out had failed, Flack took her personal life, and now her mom Christine is desperately looking to find whether or not her daughter’s superstar standing performed a component in her case, with solely 3.5 per cent of home abuse complaints reportedly leading to a cost.

She mentioned: “I’d been making an attempt for 4 years to grasp what occurred and I nonetheless had so many questions. I’d come to a brick wall so I went forward. And no matter occurs subsequent, I all the time say that nobody can do something worse to me now. Nothing worse can occur than Caroline dying.

“I feel I’ve bought as many solutions as I can now. I hope this programme can set the report straight. I want I’d carried out it earlier than Caroline died. On the time, although, in the course of it, we have been being advised to remain silent, that it could all be OK and the fees could be dropped. Caroline was telling me, ‘Mum, don’t say something.’”

Christine additionally speaks of her confusion {that a} prime CPS (Crown Prosecution Service) prosecutor was employed for the case, whereas additionally suggesting that claims made by a CPS barrister have been false.

It was steered on the time that Flack had hit Burton over the pinnacle with a lamp, leaving a scene with a number of blood, however Christine means that the blood was really Caroline’s.

A CPS spokesperson acknowledged: “An individual’s superstar standing by no means influences whether or not a case is taken ahead. We’re happy that the prosecution was appropriately introduced.”

Extra to observe.

Caroline Flack: Seek for the Fact is on Disney Plus from 10 November

For those who’ve been affected by any of those points and need to converse to somebody in confidence, please don’t undergo alone. Name Samaritans without spending a dime on their nameless 24-hour cellphone line on 116 123 or contact Innocent by visiting their web site https://harmless.org.uk.