Ex-lover: She was ruined by users, fakes and frauds
CAROLINE Flack’s ex-fiance Andrew Brady yesterday claimed she was ‘broken’ by the publicity machine, and blamed celebrity managers, agents, the Press and paparazzi for her death.
In an angry post on Instagram, the former reality TV contestant said she had been ‘ruined by a disgusting industry filled with complete users, fakes and frauds’.
The couple got engaged in 2018 after just a few weeks together, but split later that year. In the post, which he later deleted, Mr Brady said Miss Flack ‘had problems’ and apologised for any role he had in her unhappiness, adding: ‘I can’t forgive myself.’
Meanwhile, the presenter’s friend, TV producer Mollie Grosberg, posted a picture of the 40-year-old taken on Valentine’s Day, the day before she died, in the flat where she was staying with another friend, Lou Teasdale.
Miss Grosberg wrote on Instagram: ‘Our funny valentine brought us cookies and oat milk this year.’ She said she was now looking after Miss Flack’s dog Ruby, who was ‘the only thing making us smile right now’.
Miss Teasdale shared a poignant photograph, taken in 2011, of her baby daughter in the arms of the Love Island host. ‘This little lady misses you “Calorine”,’ she wrote. ‘Anyone have any nice advice for me with an eight-year-old learning about grief?’
In his post, Mr Brady paid tribute to Miss Flack’s ‘amazing’ friends and family but claimed people around her kept her in the public eye to make money, and said: ‘You knew she needed help and you did f*** all. You paraded her life across the British Press like a f****** sitcom.’
Mr Brady, 28, said the Crown Prosecution Service was not to blame for Miss Flack’s death although the star’s agent Francis Ridley has said she was under ‘ huge pressure’ because of the prospect of a ‘show trial’ over an alleged assault on her boyfriend.