CAZZA’S FANS TOLD ME TO KILL MYSELF
Jameela was victim of trolls after star’s death
JAMEELA Jamil said she was told to kill herself after Caroline Flack fans blamed her for the TV presenter’s suicide.
The 34- year- old The Good Place star was savaged on social media after the pair engaged in a public spat about Caroline’s controversial show The Surjury.
Last November Jameela criticised the Love Island host’s “problematic” show for promoting plastic surgery.
Following Caroline’s death three months later, Good Morning Britain host Piers Morgan revealed he had been sent private messages by the star saying she was “struggling” with Jameela.
In screenshots posted by Morgan, 55, Caroline wrote: “I’m struggling with Jameela. The hate she aims at me.’’
Jameela claimed she was then “gaslit on a global scale” when trolls blamed her for Caroline’s death.
Fans of the presenter left her feeling unsafe, the actress and model said.
Adored
But Jameela insisted that she had nothing to be blamed for as she had actually “adored” Caroline.
Last month an inquest heard Caroline took her own life when she learned she would have to stand trial for assaulting boyfriend Lewis Burton, 28, after finding texts suggesting he was cheating on her.
The coroner said the 40- year- old former Strictly champion feared the publicity would “all come down upon her”.
Speaking on Katie Piper’s Extraordinary People podcast Jameela said: “People thought I contributed to the death of Caroline Flack which I had nothing to do with and I adored her.
“We just had one spat on Twitter for five minutes a year ago.’’
Talking about the # Bekind movement which began following Caroline’s death,
Jameela said: “I think kindness is always an important quality but I don’t think we’ve seen that post- Caroline.
“Post- Caroline everyone piled on to me that same week so
hard. People were telling me to kill myself. I went to a bad place over the Caroline thing.”
She added: “It’s very hard to be gaslit on a global scale.
“February and March were really stressful and made me feel really unsafe for a minute.
“But now it’s charged me to go even harder, so it backfired.
“The one thing I had never gone through was global scandal and a global smear campaign and now that I’ve been through that and survived it. Now I’m like; ‘ all right, let’s f*** ing have it’. So I’m feeling good at the moment.”