Woodland memorial where Caroline Flack’s family still talk to her
IT is just over a year since Caroline Flack took her own life at the age of 40.
But the former Love Island presenter’s family revealed last night that they still ‘talk’ to her when visiting a woodland memorial bench in her honour.
Miss Flack’s mother Christine and twin sister Jody were seen at the engraved bench in a Channel 4 documentary about the TV star who was found dead at her London flat on February 15 last year. It is located near the family home in Norfolk.
‘We all needed a place just to come and sit and remember,’ Mrs Flack said. ‘This just fitted it – it’s beautiful. You come here and… it
‘She didn’t handle heartbreak well’
allows you to talk to Carrie because you feel silly anywhere else. It’s as if she’s there really, as if she’s still here, but she’s not.’
The family’s message on the bench pays tribute to ‘our beautiful girl whose tiny feet made such a big imprint on the world’.
The documentary, Caroline Flack: Her Life And Death, also featured images and videos of the star never seen before, including one showing her as a toddler in her mother’s arms.
In the hour-long programme, Mrs Flack said her daughter ‘didn’t handle heartbreak very well’, revealing how she once ran away from home when a relationship with an older boy who worked at a fair ended.
Jody said: ‘That was the first time she got super-upset. She was very depressed and that pattern carried on forever. She really did find heartbreak impossible.’
Jody also revealed that her sister was ‘fascinated’ by suicide, saying: ‘I knew that about her, so it was a worry for a long time.
‘And something I tried to get my head around. It’s something that’s in my life, that’s been… I prepared that it could happen.’
At Miss Flack’s inquest, coroner Mary Hassell said she killed herself because she was being prosecuted for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend Lewis Burton and could not face the press coverage.
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