Caroline Flack’s friends. the last people to see her alive, are defending themselves (Picture: Rex)
Caroline Flack’s friends have pushed back at her mother Christine’s plans to ask difficult questions about the late TV presenter’s final hours.
Christine is taking part in a new Disney+ documentary about the 24 hours leading up to the 40-year-old taking her own life on February 15, 2020, and the mental health pressure she was under.
And to understand whether she ultimately could have been saved.
The new documentary from Curious Films will coincide with the fifth anniversary of her death, and is the same production company behind the 2021 documentary, Caroline Flack: Her Life & Death.
But the former Love Island host’s friends, Louise Teasdale and Mollie Grosberg, who were the last people to see her alive have pushed back on Christine’s line of questioning.
Teasdale and Grosberg – who will reportedly appear in the documentary but are no longer in contact with Christine – had intervened after Flack had attempted to take her life the day before.
Flack’s mum Christine is looking into her final hours for a Disney+ documentary (Picture: Twitter/Caroline Flack)
Her friends Louise Teasdale and Molly Grosberg were there for her last day (Picture: Instagram / Mollie Grosberg)
They were both very close with the late TV host (Picture: Instagram/Lou Teasdale)
Flack refused to go to the hospital and after spending the night with her, the pair went home. The media personality tragically died before her sister Jody, arrived to look after her.
‘Why was it down to Caroline’s friends to look after her? Where was her family? Louise had to get back to her young daughter, she couldn’t stay any longer,’ a close friend of Teasdale told the Daily Mail.
The unnamed stylist continued: ‘They had been with Caroline for hours and hours and they tried to get her to go to hospital but she wouldn’t. They remained at her flat to make sure she was OK but they couldn’t stay there indefinitely, so they went.
‘It is devastating that they now have Caroline’s mother blaming them. Christine was once so close to Lou but not any more.’
The friend shared that Flack’s death had ‘haunted’ her close friends and ‘changed their lives’. They added that Flack should be ‘left in peace’ but this documentary will ‘drag everything up’ and risks ‘laying blame in certain places’.
Meanwhile, another good friend of production manager Grosberg said she ‘would have done anything for [Flack].’
Earlier this year, close friend Olly Murs spoke about Flack’s lasting presence in his life to the Big Issue.
The ITV star died in February 2020 (Picture: David Fisher/Shutterstock)
Her mum has long questioned the authorities’ decision to pursue charges (Picture: BBC Newsnight)
He said: ‘It’s mad because people say they visit you in your dreams,’ he began to the publication. ‘Caz [Caroline] does that quite frequently actually. It’s lovely when people that pass away do that.
‘Since Caroline passed, I’ve made those moments. It’s the most surreal moment but it’s lovely when them days happen. I’d love to see Caz again and chat to her.’
The Strictly winner, who struggled with mental health problems since she was a teenager, was at the centre of intense media scrutiny at the time of her death following her arrest in December 2019 for allegedly attacking her then-boyfriend Lewis Burton with a lamp.
Her death occurred shortly after she heard news of a pending trial.
In April, the Metropolitan Police confirmed they were making ‘further inquiries’ into the decision by officers to overturn the CPS’ recommendation to only give caution and instead charge her with assault by beating.
The authorities added that ‘new witness evidence may be available’.
Christine has heavily criticised the police in the past, telling the Daily Mail at the time that she ‘won’t stop until we get the truth.’
She continued: ‘Something very unusual happened to Carrie at the police station that night, but no one kept a proper record explaining why.
‘I have now made a complaint to compel the officer to give the statement we think he should have given four years ago.
‘As a family, we have been left with important unanswered questions.’
Flack’s death shocked the nation and sparked the Be Kind online campaign to encourage people to practice kindness on social media and reflect on the impact of their words.
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