1 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:03,080 --> 00:00:07,360 # Now, this is a story of long, long ago... # 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 4 00:00:10,320 --> 00:00:12,120 SINGING 5 00:00:12,160 --> 00:00:14,080 Hello... SHE SCREAMS 6 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:15,600 Jo! 7 00:00:15,640 --> 00:00:17,240 JO! 8 00:00:20,400 --> 00:00:24,640 Please welcome your host, Caroline Flack. 9 00:00:24,680 --> 00:00:29,120 She was an exceptionally good live presenter, and when she got big, 10 00:00:29,160 --> 00:00:30,600 she got very big, very quickly. 11 00:00:30,640 --> 00:00:34,360 The Strictly Come Dancing champions 2014... 12 00:00:34,400 --> 00:00:37,680 Caroline and... CHEERS AND APPLAUSE 13 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:49,640 Caroline Flack has been charged with assault. 14 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:52,680 The 40-year-old has pleaded not guilty to charges 15 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:55,480 of assaulting her boyfriend, Lewis Burton. 16 00:00:55,520 --> 00:00:57,520 Clear the stairs, come on! 17 00:00:57,560 --> 00:00:59,920 Clear the stairs! Get back! 18 00:01:02,560 --> 00:01:03,760 CRYING: It was a fight. 19 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:08,440 The only person I ever hurt was myself... 20 00:01:16,400 --> 00:01:18,560 She was my little girl. 21 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,960 It doesn't actually seem real. 22 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:24,840 It doesn't. 23 00:01:24,880 --> 00:01:25,920 I... 24 00:01:25,960 --> 00:01:28,800 I just wish I'd have seen her. I-I just wish I could've spoke 25 00:01:28,840 --> 00:01:30,200 and told her not to do it. 26 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:32,000 That's all I wanted to say. 27 00:01:32,040 --> 00:01:35,360 And, I...I never got an opportunity to do that. 28 00:01:43,120 --> 00:01:46,440 There were contradictions in her personality where she seemed 29 00:01:46,480 --> 00:01:50,360 supremely confident on one level, but then massively vulnerable 30 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,280 and lacking confidence on another. 31 00:01:57,520 --> 00:02:01,600 It's hard to imagine a closer bond than twins. 32 00:02:01,640 --> 00:02:05,240 It's a different world now, and it's trying to come to terms 33 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,040 with what happened and... 34 00:02:08,080 --> 00:02:09,920 ..could it have happened any differently 35 00:02:09,960 --> 00:02:12,440 if we'd done things differently? 36 00:02:12,480 --> 00:02:14,040 So, that's the hardest bit. 37 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:25,680 Yeah? How do you invite a snail to a party? 38 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:26,800 I dunno. 39 00:02:30,520 --> 00:02:32,880 Do you want to come to a party? LAUGHTER 40 00:02:32,920 --> 00:02:34,360 If she walked into a room, 41 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:36,440 it was like a light going on, 42 00:02:36,480 --> 00:02:37,560 which is a gift. 43 00:02:37,600 --> 00:02:39,440 CHEERS Yeah! 44 00:02:41,160 --> 00:02:43,040 This is fun even when my eyes are open! Woo! 45 00:02:44,560 --> 00:02:48,680 I just remember her as being the funniest, 46 00:02:48,720 --> 00:02:52,760 most stupid ball of energy. 47 00:02:52,800 --> 00:02:55,520 # We are family 48 00:02:55,560 --> 00:02:58,720 # I got all my sisters and me... # Everyone's looking at us! 49 00:02:58,760 --> 00:03:00,240 Everyone fancied her. 50 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:02,840 You wanted to hang out with her, you wanted to spend time with her 51 00:03:02,880 --> 00:03:04,760 because you just, you thrived on it. 52 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:06,400 It was lovely. 53 00:03:06,440 --> 00:03:08,320 Oh, Pinks! 54 00:03:08,360 --> 00:03:10,280 LAUGHTER 55 00:03:10,320 --> 00:03:13,040 I always used to tell her she sounded like Peppa Pig. 56 00:03:13,080 --> 00:03:15,080 She sounds like Caroline. 57 00:03:15,120 --> 00:03:17,840 She thought that was hilarious. 58 00:03:17,880 --> 00:03:19,680 Sorry! LAUGHTER 59 00:03:28,240 --> 00:03:31,040 I remember meeting her a couple of years ago, 60 00:03:31,080 --> 00:03:33,520 and I couldn't believe how recognised she was. 61 00:03:33,560 --> 00:03:36,280 I mean, it would be like every other person. 62 00:03:36,320 --> 00:03:39,160 You'd hear, "It's Caroline Flack, Caroline..." 63 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:42,760 I was like, "Wow, Flacky, you are..." 64 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:43,960 Here she is! 65 00:03:44,000 --> 00:03:45,000 Have a seat! 66 00:03:45,040 --> 00:03:49,040 I will always remember at a red carpet event, she'd be so nervous 67 00:03:49,080 --> 00:03:51,440 in the car - that all eyes are on her. 68 00:03:51,480 --> 00:03:53,680 Caroline, just on the end! 69 00:03:53,720 --> 00:03:55,720 Caroline, look here on the end, Caroline! 70 00:03:55,760 --> 00:03:58,160 When, she got out of the car, it was always fine. 71 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:00,360 There were fans screaming her name. 72 00:04:00,400 --> 00:04:01,840 Caroline! 73 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:05,360 That's when you could see her come alive. 74 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:07,520 She was like, "Oh, people do like me." 75 00:04:07,560 --> 00:04:08,760 Caroline! 76 00:04:13,800 --> 00:04:19,560 She would always tell me who she was dating pretty much straight away. 77 00:04:21,080 --> 00:04:25,160 And we were heavily, heavily involved in Caroline's private life. 78 00:04:30,760 --> 00:04:35,320 Caroline started dating Lewis, and he was this very tall, 79 00:04:35,360 --> 00:04:39,880 good-looking model. He was an ex-tennis player and she, you know, 80 00:04:39,920 --> 00:04:41,920 was pretty smitten with him. 81 00:04:41,960 --> 00:04:43,360 Let's talk love. 82 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:45,280 Who's looking for the real thing? 83 00:04:45,320 --> 00:04:51,160 She was about to go into the sixth series of Love Island. 84 00:04:51,200 --> 00:04:54,400 So, she was top of her game when she met Lewis. 85 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:58,160 The press were obsessed with her love life. 86 00:04:58,200 --> 00:04:59,720 They always were. 87 00:05:03,840 --> 00:05:09,400 This night in December, Caroline was just meeting another friend 88 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:11,280 for a drink at Shoreditch House, 89 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:16,920 and then I went there to meet her and we had a few drinks. 90 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:23,080 She had gotten home and then Lewis had come back. 91 00:05:23,120 --> 00:05:26,320 And then she had... 92 00:05:26,360 --> 00:05:29,240 She had seen something on his phone. 93 00:05:29,280 --> 00:05:31,480 Lewis had been texting a woman. 94 00:05:31,520 --> 00:05:35,640 That was obviously going to be a massive trigger for her. 95 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:40,200 They had an argument and he called the police. 96 00:05:47,240 --> 00:05:50,160 When the police arrived, she was covered in blood. 97 00:05:51,880 --> 00:05:55,840 What prompted Lewis to call the police, 98 00:05:55,880 --> 00:05:58,280 he received a cut to his head. 99 00:05:59,840 --> 00:06:01,200 She was taken away. 100 00:06:04,360 --> 00:06:07,480 Within 24 hours, journalists had the story. 101 00:06:09,040 --> 00:06:12,680 The TV presenter Caroline Flack was arrested and charged 102 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:14,120 with assault by beating. 103 00:06:17,640 --> 00:06:20,520 Everything started to go from bad to worse. 104 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:27,720 I just went and sat outside the police station. 105 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:32,440 And just, yeah, waited for it all to...play out. 106 00:06:34,880 --> 00:06:38,880 So, I was scared probably more than she was. 107 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,880 I remember her walking out the police station not really, 108 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:47,760 I don't think, really understanding the impact it might have. 109 00:06:55,560 --> 00:06:57,760 We got a camera! 110 00:06:57,800 --> 00:07:00,320 SINGING IN UNISON 111 00:07:02,000 --> 00:07:03,680 # Had a drink... # 112 00:07:06,240 --> 00:07:11,840 Being twins, it's just a link and a bond which I think is quite rare. 113 00:07:11,880 --> 00:07:14,440 All the way along, you know, everything was the same. 114 00:07:14,480 --> 00:07:16,680 We played together all the time. 115 00:07:16,720 --> 00:07:20,560 # Oompah-pah, oompah-pah that's how it goes... # 116 00:07:20,600 --> 00:07:23,560 When we were very young, you know, we used to sing at home 117 00:07:23,600 --> 00:07:27,200 and stuff, and I sort of went along with it a little bit. 118 00:07:27,240 --> 00:07:30,840 # Sweet little meek little Marianne.. # 119 00:07:30,880 --> 00:07:34,520 That was the sort of pecking order. She was just a bit bossy. 120 00:07:34,560 --> 00:07:38,200 I mean, she was Kylie out of Kylie and Jason. 121 00:07:38,240 --> 00:07:41,000 Especially For You by Kylie and Jason. 122 00:07:41,040 --> 00:07:42,480 Yeah, I was always the boy. 123 00:07:44,560 --> 00:07:47,160 # Especially for you 124 00:07:47,200 --> 00:07:51,200 # I'm gonna tell you, you mean all the world to me... # 125 00:07:51,240 --> 00:07:53,640 Complete opposites, complete opposites. 126 00:07:55,360 --> 00:07:57,560 Jody was positive, 127 00:07:57,600 --> 00:07:59,880 and Carrie was the negative. 128 00:08:01,480 --> 00:08:03,880 It was either, you know, when you get a high or a low 129 00:08:03,920 --> 00:08:06,600 and that's what she was like from a child. 130 00:08:06,640 --> 00:08:08,160 She was either very high 131 00:08:08,200 --> 00:08:10,160 or she was very down. You know, 132 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:11,880 you couldn't stop her crying. 133 00:08:11,920 --> 00:08:14,520 What a day. No, not now, Carrie. 134 00:08:14,560 --> 00:08:17,880 Wait. Carrie, why are you crying, babes? 135 00:08:17,920 --> 00:08:20,200 Eh? 136 00:08:20,240 --> 00:08:21,520 Aw, don't cry. 137 00:08:21,560 --> 00:08:23,360 Don't cry. 138 00:08:23,400 --> 00:08:25,080 Oh, darling, don't... 139 00:08:25,120 --> 00:08:28,440 And then she'd pick herself up - she would pick herself up. 140 00:08:28,480 --> 00:08:30,080 GIGGLES 141 00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,320 Jody always had probably more regular boyfriends. 142 00:08:39,360 --> 00:08:41,360 Carrie always - oh, she always... 143 00:08:41,400 --> 00:08:44,320 It was always someone that wasn't quite right. 144 00:08:44,360 --> 00:08:48,000 And she went out with a boy from the fair, 145 00:08:48,040 --> 00:08:50,000 which was - that was fine. 146 00:08:50,040 --> 00:08:53,680 But of course, he had to be older cos he was working there. 147 00:08:53,720 --> 00:08:55,640 The waltzer boy. 148 00:08:55,680 --> 00:08:58,760 He was a bit older so it was all a bit dramatic 149 00:08:58,800 --> 00:09:00,880 and secret and exciting. 150 00:09:00,920 --> 00:09:05,640 That was, I guess, the first time she got super, super, super upset 151 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:07,680 when she...when that didn't work out. 152 00:09:07,720 --> 00:09:11,040 But she was heartbroken. 153 00:09:11,080 --> 00:09:13,360 She, I mean, I think she ran away from home. She ran away, 154 00:09:13,400 --> 00:09:15,800 we didn't know where she was and she'd gone to his house and, 155 00:09:15,840 --> 00:09:17,240 you know, was banging on his door. 156 00:09:17,280 --> 00:09:20,400 And she really, really, really, really struggled emotionally. 157 00:09:20,440 --> 00:09:22,240 She was very, very depressed. 158 00:09:22,280 --> 00:09:25,200 And then that's something, that pattern carried on forever. 159 00:09:25,240 --> 00:09:28,640 She really, really did find heartbreak impossible. 160 00:09:37,520 --> 00:09:40,720 She had a long relationship when she was in Cambridge, 161 00:09:40,760 --> 00:09:43,680 but it ended and then we got a call 162 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:47,600 that she had taken some pills 163 00:09:47,640 --> 00:09:49,400 and she spent time... 164 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:57,320 ..in hospital, and then you could tell, you know, that... 165 00:09:57,360 --> 00:10:01,040 It wasn't right, you know? Her reaction wasn't right. 166 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:05,360 Yeah, she didn't handle heartbreak well. 167 00:10:08,080 --> 00:10:10,280 I don't know if I should... I don't know. 168 00:10:10,320 --> 00:10:12,920 It feels so weird talking about it because I know it's something 169 00:10:12,960 --> 00:10:14,760 she never wanted anyone to know about. 170 00:10:19,280 --> 00:10:22,200 Each serious boyfriend, she sort of... 171 00:10:23,280 --> 00:10:26,240 ..took a lot of tablets, drank a lot, ended up in 172 00:10:26,280 --> 00:10:29,480 an A&E situation, erm, 173 00:10:29,520 --> 00:10:31,600 a lot of times, 174 00:10:31,640 --> 00:10:35,760 and she really didn't think she could cope with that feeling. 175 00:10:35,800 --> 00:10:36,800 Erm... 176 00:10:39,280 --> 00:10:42,280 And so that's, you know, I think it was her trying to... 177 00:10:42,320 --> 00:10:43,600 ..trying to control it. 178 00:10:47,480 --> 00:10:50,240 We went through all the doctors and they saw to her and they said, 179 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:53,040 "No, we think it was a one-off," you know... 180 00:10:53,080 --> 00:10:56,800 But there was always that fear after then that... 181 00:10:58,440 --> 00:10:59,840 Erm... 182 00:11:02,040 --> 00:11:05,800 I don't know, you just, you just, we... You always worried about... 183 00:11:09,600 --> 00:11:11,680 ..in case anything happened. 184 00:11:16,720 --> 00:11:22,240 She was quite fascinated by the subject of suicide always, 185 00:11:22,280 --> 00:11:26,000 and I knew that about her. So, yeah, it was a worry. 186 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:29,640 A worry for a long time and something I think I tried 187 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:32,520 to get my head around, er... 188 00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:38,040 ..for a long time, so it's something that's in my life 189 00:11:38,080 --> 00:11:42,320 that's been, yeah, I've... 190 00:11:42,360 --> 00:11:44,520 I prepared that it could happen. 191 00:11:59,800 --> 00:12:01,800 CAT MEOWS Waffle? 192 00:12:01,840 --> 00:12:04,160 This is Carrie's cat, that I've now inherited. 193 00:12:05,400 --> 00:12:09,320 Right, so this is, erm, my memory box of Carrie. 194 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,280 There's her school photo. SHE CHUCKLES 195 00:12:15,480 --> 00:12:17,520 Then she went from that to that. 196 00:12:17,560 --> 00:12:18,760 SHE LAUGHS 197 00:12:18,800 --> 00:12:21,560 Lovely Mother's Day cards from her. 198 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,760 And you don't realise at the time - you read them, and you think, 199 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,000 "Oh, that's nice." 200 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:30,200 But when I read them now, it's like... 201 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:34,760 She used to say to me, "Oh, I've booked this, Mum, are you coming?" 202 00:12:34,800 --> 00:12:37,560 You know, "Come with me," or "we'll go here, we'll go there." 203 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:39,280 And I'd say, "Oh, I've got to work." 204 00:12:39,320 --> 00:12:42,600 And I did have to work, and I... 205 00:12:42,640 --> 00:12:44,480 Do you know, it just... 206 00:12:47,000 --> 00:12:48,960 You shouldn't... 207 00:12:49,000 --> 00:12:51,280 All the times you, sort of, miss with someone. 208 00:12:52,960 --> 00:12:55,080 And you should just... 209 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:56,560 ..just do it, shouldn't you? 210 00:13:04,400 --> 00:13:09,640 There's one thing I really, erm, treasure now, is this picture. 211 00:13:09,680 --> 00:13:11,240 I was with her when she bought it. 212 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:13,920 I just thought it was so beautiful. 213 00:13:13,960 --> 00:13:17,440 And, to me, it now looks like Carrie, you know? 214 00:13:17,480 --> 00:13:20,000 Just how...she floated away, really. 215 00:13:50,520 --> 00:13:53,120 It's three days after I've been arrested... 216 00:13:53,160 --> 00:13:55,680 ..for having a fight with my boyfriend. 217 00:13:55,720 --> 00:13:57,160 Since then... 218 00:13:59,480 --> 00:14:01,120 ..I lost my job. 219 00:14:02,640 --> 00:14:04,320 The job I've worked all my life on. 220 00:14:06,120 --> 00:14:09,320 Caroline was Love Island, it was her show, 221 00:14:09,360 --> 00:14:11,560 it was what made her tick. 222 00:14:11,600 --> 00:14:15,760 She was devastated that... that had gone from her. 223 00:14:15,800 --> 00:14:19,720 All the stuff that she'd worked 20 years for - 224 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:21,960 they were all gone overnight. 225 00:14:22,000 --> 00:14:23,200 They were just all gone. 226 00:14:23,240 --> 00:14:25,040 Maybe she'd never get any of that back. 227 00:14:25,080 --> 00:14:28,000 Maybe she'd have to find something else to do with her life. 228 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:31,960 There wasn't a plan B. 229 00:14:36,200 --> 00:14:38,200 I've never hurt anyone in my life. 230 00:14:40,040 --> 00:14:42,480 TEARFULLY: The only person I ever hurt is myself. 231 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:46,560 SHE SOBS 232 00:15:05,240 --> 00:15:06,880 She always had something, you know? 233 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:09,560 Something we could look on - a strange channel. 234 00:15:09,600 --> 00:15:12,080 And it just, sort of, grew from there, really. 235 00:15:13,240 --> 00:15:14,520 SHE GIGGLES 236 00:15:14,560 --> 00:15:16,360 What are you doing in my room? Erm... 237 00:15:17,800 --> 00:15:19,880 ..this is my room. Room 121? 238 00:15:19,920 --> 00:15:22,800 I first met Caroline when she came into the agency. 239 00:15:24,040 --> 00:15:25,880 I think those early days, in some ways, 240 00:15:25,920 --> 00:15:27,640 I just let Caroline get on with it. 241 00:15:27,680 --> 00:15:30,320 She wasn't a client that I needed to go and look after. 242 00:15:30,360 --> 00:15:32,160 She didn't need you around. 243 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:36,600 And obviously, that changed a lot, sort of, in later years. 244 00:15:36,640 --> 00:15:39,000 HE SCREAMS 245 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,200 What are you doing?! 246 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,520 You can't just sit around, singing all day! 247 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,280 This isn't The X Factor. 248 00:15:46,320 --> 00:15:48,480 Let's meet this week's TMi-ers. 249 00:15:48,520 --> 00:15:49,800 Loved TMi. 250 00:15:49,840 --> 00:15:52,240 They hadn't got anyone to do one of the, erm, games, 251 00:15:52,280 --> 00:15:53,760 she'd say, "Mum, you do it." 252 00:15:53,800 --> 00:15:55,240 This one's my mum! 253 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:56,840 THEY CHEER 254 00:15:56,880 --> 00:15:58,400 She can't see what I'm doing! 255 00:15:58,440 --> 00:16:00,600 I met Caroline in 2001. 256 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:03,560 Cos Dee worked with her very early doors. 257 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:04,720 Oh, she was brilliant! 258 00:16:04,760 --> 00:16:08,520 And she was just this, kind of, little, tiny little pocket rocket 259 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:10,080 whirlwind of fun. 260 00:16:10,120 --> 00:16:12,760 It was a really fun time to be working in television, 261 00:16:12,800 --> 00:16:15,960 because you were able to make your mistakes in public. 262 00:16:16,000 --> 00:16:17,720 It kind of didn't matter. 263 00:16:17,760 --> 00:16:21,800 And so, we were all learning a craft and a trade together. 264 00:16:21,840 --> 00:16:23,040 Ready? 265 00:16:23,080 --> 00:16:24,400 Oh, Jesus, it's freezing. 266 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:29,200 Hello, and welcome to PokerStars.com European Poker Tour, 267 00:16:29,240 --> 00:16:30,840 coming to you once again from... 268 00:16:33,280 --> 00:16:35,800 SHE LAUGHS 269 00:16:35,840 --> 00:16:38,840 She didn't seem to think of any pressure on her. 270 00:16:38,880 --> 00:16:41,800 But she wasn't really well known. 271 00:16:41,840 --> 00:16:44,920 Not until she did, really, Xtra Factor with Olly. 272 00:16:46,960 --> 00:16:49,400 CHEERING 273 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,240 We were the co-presenters 274 00:16:52,280 --> 00:16:53,640 on The Xtra Factor. 275 00:16:54,960 --> 00:16:57,960 I walked in and saw her for the first time and thought, 276 00:16:58,000 --> 00:17:01,480 "Wow, she's stunning, gorgeous," and she was full of life. 277 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:04,520 At the time, I was single, and I think she was. 278 00:17:04,560 --> 00:17:08,000 And I think straight away, this chemistry came out of nowhere. 279 00:17:08,040 --> 00:17:09,040 It was like, "Oh." 280 00:17:10,960 --> 00:17:13,760 THEY SING 281 00:17:13,800 --> 00:17:16,960 Yeah, it was exciting, everyone was talking about us as the next, 282 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:20,480 you know, Richard & Judy, the next Ant & Dec. 283 00:17:20,520 --> 00:17:23,560 That's why the show was such a success. 284 00:17:23,600 --> 00:17:26,880 And, obviously, the fact that everyone thought we were together. 285 00:17:30,480 --> 00:17:33,400 Please welcome your hosts... 286 00:17:33,440 --> 00:17:35,360 Caroline Flack! 287 00:17:40,040 --> 00:17:41,560 So, The X Factor - 288 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:43,920 all of a sudden, we got a phone call from Simon 289 00:17:43,960 --> 00:17:45,880 saying he wants to revamp the show. 290 00:17:45,920 --> 00:17:48,720 "We want you to replace Dermot O'Leary." 291 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:52,600 When we got the job in 2015 to host the biggest, 292 00:17:52,640 --> 00:17:55,200 most talked-about show on TV... 293 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:59,360 ..it should've been the most amazing experience of our lives. 294 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:02,440 But it ended up being, probably... 295 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:03,960 ..our downfall, really. 296 00:18:05,480 --> 00:18:08,480 If you've got a talent for hosting live TV shows, 297 00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:10,680 then the bigger shows on television 298 00:18:10,720 --> 00:18:14,480 are in the white-hot heat of Saturday night. 299 00:18:14,520 --> 00:18:16,800 You don't get to have that career... 300 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:21,720 ..and that level of fame without taking all the shit 301 00:18:21,760 --> 00:18:22,760 that comes with it. 302 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:28,200 After the first two, three shows, 303 00:18:28,240 --> 00:18:30,280 we got it from all angles. 304 00:18:30,320 --> 00:18:32,640 "Well, this show is good, but it's missing something. 305 00:18:32,680 --> 00:18:34,200 "It's missing Dermot." 306 00:18:34,240 --> 00:18:37,480 And all of a sudden, you're just... boom, beaten up, beaten up again. 307 00:18:37,520 --> 00:18:39,480 And that was constant for ten weeks. 308 00:18:39,520 --> 00:18:42,760 It was always knowing, "Oh, what'll the media say now? 309 00:18:42,800 --> 00:18:44,720 "What have people said on Twitter now?" 310 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:46,600 I'd say it was the social media. 311 00:18:46,640 --> 00:18:50,160 It was literally... once Twitter started, 312 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:53,720 she would spend a lot of time looking at comments. 313 00:18:59,000 --> 00:19:03,120 Her rise to fame coincided with the rise of social media. 314 00:19:03,160 --> 00:19:07,400 I think she was in a kind of weird cat-and-mouse game 315 00:19:07,440 --> 00:19:09,920 with social media, with press, with fame. 316 00:19:09,960 --> 00:19:13,560 She hated it, but she couldn't live without it. Yeah. 317 00:19:13,600 --> 00:19:15,320 The abuse that she was getting... 318 00:19:17,560 --> 00:19:18,920 It was awful. 319 00:19:18,960 --> 00:19:19,960 Awful. 320 00:19:21,320 --> 00:19:25,920 We did try quite hard to try and wean her off social media. 321 00:19:25,960 --> 00:19:29,960 But actually, I don't think we ever really got a handle on that. 322 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,000 Unfortunately. 323 00:19:32,240 --> 00:19:34,480 CHRISTINE: I used to say to her, "Just don't read it. 324 00:19:34,520 --> 00:19:36,400 "Just get rid of your phone." 325 00:19:36,440 --> 00:19:38,680 But she'd be on it constantly. 326 00:19:38,720 --> 00:19:41,640 You'd try and talk to her, but she'd be looking at her phone. 327 00:19:43,800 --> 00:19:46,960 Them comments did affect her every day. 328 00:19:47,000 --> 00:19:48,440 The comments did hurt. 329 00:19:48,480 --> 00:19:52,440 It was slightly destroying her, I would say. 330 00:19:52,480 --> 00:19:56,040 She...was suffering, basically. 331 00:19:57,360 --> 00:19:59,920 And then, when you did see her face-to-face, 332 00:19:59,960 --> 00:20:01,400 nothing would get mentioned. 333 00:20:01,440 --> 00:20:03,200 It would be, "Yeah, I'm fine." 334 00:20:03,240 --> 00:20:05,160 Whereas, obviously, she wasn't fine. 335 00:20:05,200 --> 00:20:06,400 Erm... 336 00:20:11,320 --> 00:20:13,400 Yeah. 337 00:20:13,440 --> 00:20:18,200 It's very difficult to know the extent of someone's problems 338 00:20:18,240 --> 00:20:19,560 if they tell you... 339 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:22,680 ..if they sweep them under the carpet. 340 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:24,320 She just hid it so well. 341 00:20:24,360 --> 00:20:26,680 I think that's the thing, she hid it so well. 342 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:28,800 And I think for me, the only warning signs were 343 00:20:28,840 --> 00:20:30,480 the addiction to social media. 344 00:20:30,520 --> 00:20:33,520 And you definitely saw that over the years progressing. 345 00:20:33,560 --> 00:20:38,120 And obviously, that then grew and grew, and didn't really 346 00:20:38,160 --> 00:20:39,400 stop and go away. 347 00:20:39,440 --> 00:20:42,880 REPORTERS CLAMOUR 348 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:46,280 Sometimes people ask if she wanted to be famous, 349 00:20:46,320 --> 00:20:48,920 which is a really good question. "Did she want to be famous?" 350 00:20:48,960 --> 00:20:50,400 She did want to be famous. 351 00:20:50,440 --> 00:20:54,240 But the problem was she just wasn't emotionally wired 352 00:20:54,280 --> 00:20:57,200 to deal with all the pressures that came with being famous. 353 00:20:57,240 --> 00:21:00,560 But in the beginning, we didn't know that. 354 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,200 Because it wasn't obvious then. 355 00:21:12,040 --> 00:21:15,120 I remember the final of The X Factor, 356 00:21:15,160 --> 00:21:17,120 there was a big story. 357 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,320 And basically, we were getting sacked after the show. 358 00:21:20,360 --> 00:21:23,360 I was just like, "This is the final of The X Factor!" 359 00:21:23,400 --> 00:21:25,520 Yeah, it was an awful experience, 360 00:21:25,560 --> 00:21:27,960 to know that everyone hated us on the show. 361 00:21:29,320 --> 00:21:32,440 DERMOT: It was tough. It hurt. 362 00:21:32,480 --> 00:21:35,200 Sadly, as Caroline got more famous, 363 00:21:35,240 --> 00:21:38,560 I think she became addicted to affirmation. 364 00:21:38,600 --> 00:21:44,120 And all that terrible kind of maelstrom ended up with us 365 00:21:44,160 --> 00:21:47,200 on the sofa talking to you about her now. 366 00:21:47,240 --> 00:21:52,040 That X Factor experience for both of us was...was hard. 367 00:21:52,080 --> 00:21:54,600 You know, but again, Caroline... 368 00:21:54,640 --> 00:21:56,920 God, she got it so much more than me. 369 00:21:56,960 --> 00:21:58,160 I don't know what it was. 370 00:21:58,200 --> 00:22:00,240 GRAHAM NORTON: Dermot's back on The X Factor. 371 00:22:00,280 --> 00:22:01,560 Well done, girls. Yes. 372 00:22:01,600 --> 00:22:04,800 APPLAUSE Well done. Now... 373 00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:09,280 ..I'm not saying the writing was on the wall for Caroline Flack, 374 00:22:09,320 --> 00:22:11,920 but you could get better odds of Anne Boleyn returning for 375 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:14,120 the second series of Wolf Hall. 376 00:22:14,160 --> 00:22:16,480 That just really, really hurt her. 377 00:22:16,520 --> 00:22:19,000 You thought, "Oh, that's going to..." 378 00:22:19,040 --> 00:22:21,320 You know, "..make her feel so, so bad." 379 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:23,680 And that's when you again worried about her. 380 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,120 Are you two good mates? Yeah. We're best friends. 381 00:22:26,160 --> 00:22:28,360 Are you? What's the worst thing she does? 382 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,280 Go on. Go on, Mum. The worst thing? 383 00:22:30,320 --> 00:22:32,960 Yeah, what's the worst thing? Doesn't answer her phone. 384 00:22:33,000 --> 00:22:34,920 She's busy. She worries a lot. 385 00:22:34,960 --> 00:22:38,120 I don't answer my phone, she gets in the car and drives to London. 386 00:22:38,160 --> 00:22:39,680 That's great. And knocks on my door, 387 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:41,680 "Why aren't you answering your phone?" 388 00:22:41,720 --> 00:22:44,160 She'd text me in the middle of the night, and one night, 389 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:46,240 I remember got in my car to drive to London. 390 00:22:46,280 --> 00:22:49,840 And halfway there, she went, "Oh, it's all right now." 391 00:22:49,880 --> 00:22:53,560 But she just, yeah... used to brush it off then. 392 00:22:58,800 --> 00:23:04,000 And what always got her out of it was having to go to work, 393 00:23:04,040 --> 00:23:05,800 or having to do something. 394 00:23:05,840 --> 00:23:09,360 And then, the next day, it might, you know, 395 00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,640 things might seem better. 396 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:14,200 But you just never really knew. 397 00:23:17,320 --> 00:23:20,040 LORRAINE KELLY: As Caroline Flack steps down from Love Island, 398 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:23,080 we're finding out who is set to replace her. 399 00:23:23,120 --> 00:23:24,240 Yeah, that's showbiz. 400 00:23:24,280 --> 00:23:27,960 First, though, Andi Peters has joined us - the competition! 401 00:23:28,000 --> 00:23:31,720 Just to laugh when it was the worst time in Carrie's life, 402 00:23:31,760 --> 00:23:33,440 and say, "That's show business." 403 00:23:33,480 --> 00:23:35,480 Well, it shouldn't be show business. 404 00:23:35,520 --> 00:23:37,480 Should not be show business. 405 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:41,520 She started to feel that she was losing her grip on her life. 406 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:45,920 The attacks were coming in at her from all sides. 407 00:23:45,960 --> 00:23:47,840 The press. 408 00:23:47,880 --> 00:23:50,040 She was on her phone, 409 00:23:50,080 --> 00:23:52,280 and she was just scrolling through Twitter. 410 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:01,360 She had people on social media - that this is "what she deserved". 411 00:24:01,400 --> 00:24:05,680 Fathers for Justice decided to start a Twitter campaign against her, 412 00:24:05,720 --> 00:24:07,960 of her in a line-up with the heading, 413 00:24:08,000 --> 00:24:10,600 "This is what a domestic abuser looks like." 414 00:24:10,640 --> 00:24:12,040 The madness doesn't stop. 415 00:24:15,080 --> 00:24:18,360 The echo chamber got really loud and really angry. 416 00:24:18,400 --> 00:24:22,560 She just felt really ashamed that that's what people saw her as - 417 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:24,160 I think it was just too much. 418 00:24:24,200 --> 00:24:26,120 It made her so on-edge and so paranoid. 419 00:24:27,440 --> 00:24:31,640 She'd had bad press before, and she'd get over it. 420 00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:35,040 But there was always a way out that she couldn't.... 421 00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:37,320 This time, she couldn't see. 422 00:24:37,360 --> 00:24:38,920 She just couldn't see a way out. 423 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:10,280 Caroline Flack was surrounded by photographers as she arrived 424 00:25:10,320 --> 00:25:12,960 at court accused of assaulting her boyfriend. 425 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:14,840 SHOUTS 426 00:25:20,320 --> 00:25:21,600 That was awful. 427 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,160 Yeah, that was awful. 428 00:25:25,240 --> 00:25:29,040 She just seemed tiny to me, and she was frightened and... 429 00:25:33,640 --> 00:25:36,320 She just looked so lost and sad, 430 00:25:36,360 --> 00:25:39,680 and it was - it was horrible. 431 00:25:39,720 --> 00:25:42,920 Her boyfriend, former professional tennis player and model 432 00:25:42,960 --> 00:25:45,680 Lewis Burton, arrived separately. 433 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:49,160 He's previously said he wants the case against Caroline Flack 434 00:25:49,200 --> 00:25:52,480 to be dropped and doesn't support the prosecution. 435 00:25:52,520 --> 00:25:56,200 Prosecutor Katie Weiss told the court both were covered in blood. 436 00:25:56,240 --> 00:25:59,120 And in fact, one of the police officers likened the scene 437 00:25:59,160 --> 00:26:00,720 to a horror movie. 438 00:26:00,760 --> 00:26:03,680 The presenter pleaded not guilty to assault. 439 00:26:03,720 --> 00:26:07,400 She put her head in her hands as the court refused an application 440 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:08,920 to remove bail conditions, 441 00:26:08,960 --> 00:26:12,120 preventing her from contacting Burton. 442 00:26:12,160 --> 00:26:14,920 There was, erm, a love element in there as well. 443 00:26:14,960 --> 00:26:17,680 At the time, she just wanted to see him. 444 00:26:17,720 --> 00:26:20,840 It was that feeling she knew too well 445 00:26:20,880 --> 00:26:23,720 that she knew she couldn't cope with. 446 00:26:25,400 --> 00:26:28,320 Step back, please! Out of the way! 447 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,120 From that day, she was in a very bad way. 448 00:26:35,520 --> 00:26:39,520 I know her, so I knew it was going to be unbearable. 449 00:26:39,560 --> 00:26:43,880 It was going to trigger all the things that she finds... 450 00:26:43,920 --> 00:26:46,840 ..difficult, so it didn't just trigger one of those things, 451 00:26:46,880 --> 00:26:51,280 it triggered everything in her life that she finds difficult. 452 00:26:57,120 --> 00:27:00,360 I first met Caroline, 2003. 453 00:27:00,400 --> 00:27:02,000 We were both young in the industry. 454 00:27:02,040 --> 00:27:04,240 I was an aspiring TV producer. 455 00:27:04,280 --> 00:27:07,240 She was an aspiring TV presenter. 456 00:27:07,280 --> 00:27:10,680 I was emotionally stable. 457 00:27:10,720 --> 00:27:12,360 I would run like this, 458 00:27:12,400 --> 00:27:14,040 and she was up and down. 459 00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:17,320 I was already attached. 460 00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:19,760 I had a boyfriend, who I then later married. 461 00:27:19,800 --> 00:27:22,960 She was on and off attached to various different people. 462 00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:25,840 She did go a bit... out with some funny... 463 00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:27,240 Yeah, not funny people. 464 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,920 I don't mean that, but people you don't expect. 465 00:27:29,960 --> 00:27:33,760 Yeah, her world. But it's where her world took her, really. 466 00:27:35,680 --> 00:27:39,800 Prince Harry was like the defining moment, really. 467 00:27:39,840 --> 00:27:42,720 The papers had got hold of it and that had never 468 00:27:42,760 --> 00:27:47,240 happened to her before and she was really upset about it. 469 00:27:47,280 --> 00:27:49,080 There's a catchy headline 470 00:27:49,120 --> 00:27:51,160 and the tabloid image of them 471 00:27:51,200 --> 00:27:53,640 together is great cos it proves that they're together. 472 00:27:53,680 --> 00:27:57,280 And then you stick that next to a photo of her looking really sexy 473 00:27:57,320 --> 00:28:01,520 and glamorous and suddenly what the page is saying is "slut". 474 00:28:04,040 --> 00:28:05,760 And then she has to live with that. 475 00:28:05,800 --> 00:28:07,680 It got to a point with Carrie 476 00:28:07,720 --> 00:28:10,960 that she was on the front page of the paper so often. 477 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:12,880 It was just like, "Oh, it's just another day. 478 00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:14,560 "Caroline's on the front of the paper." 479 00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:17,760 You know, she's probably immune to it, but she never was. She... 480 00:28:17,800 --> 00:28:19,440 You don't become immune to that, do you? 481 00:28:19,480 --> 00:28:21,280 This says that you're in a new relationship. 482 00:28:21,320 --> 00:28:23,840 Oh, I'm not here to talk about my love life. Are you good, happy? 483 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,200 I'm all good. I'm all good. 484 00:28:25,240 --> 00:28:28,000 Just newspaper cannon fodder, isn't it? 485 00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,000 And there's probably part of her that loved it 486 00:28:31,040 --> 00:28:32,680 and got a buzz from it, 487 00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:35,840 and there's part of her that it just chipped away at her soul. 488 00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:37,160 It was slow-motion... 489 00:28:38,400 --> 00:28:41,080 ..it happening in front of our eyes. 490 00:28:41,120 --> 00:28:43,760 CHEERING It's time for One Direction! 491 00:28:43,800 --> 00:28:46,560 # It's gotta be you... # 492 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:51,280 I was there at X Factor when Harry was 16, 17. 493 00:28:51,320 --> 00:28:53,680 And you could see there was a lot of flirting going on. 494 00:28:53,720 --> 00:28:56,200 ARCHIVE: Which girl do you fancy the most, Harry? Caroline. 495 00:28:56,240 --> 00:28:58,040 LAUGHTER 496 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:00,400 A lot of the Harry Styles fans, 497 00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,520 there was a big hate brigade. 498 00:29:04,520 --> 00:29:08,040 It was sort of a personal hate for someone that they didn't know. 499 00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:12,280 If you're not the person, it's easy to see that that's ridiculous, 500 00:29:12,320 --> 00:29:14,200 but Carrie couldn't see that. 501 00:29:18,280 --> 00:29:20,000 An older woman dating a teenage boy, 502 00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:21,880 in society's view, is not acceptable. 503 00:29:21,920 --> 00:29:25,400 But because she kept doing these things and like fuelling that fire, 504 00:29:25,440 --> 00:29:27,720 then there would be a backlash to it. 505 00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:30,280 But the backlash was extraordinary. 506 00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:36,640 And so then, when she started to publicly mess up with her love life, 507 00:29:36,680 --> 00:29:38,640 that made it even more compelling, 508 00:29:38,680 --> 00:29:41,080 like you were buying in to her soap opera. 509 00:29:41,120 --> 00:29:42,920 Here was the profound irony to all of this, 510 00:29:42,960 --> 00:29:45,200 she's hosting a show called Love Island, 511 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:47,240 and she couldn't, herself, find love. 512 00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,920 ARCHIVE: Brace yourself, Britain, it's the return of the Flack. 513 00:29:50,960 --> 00:29:53,920 # Can't stop thinking about you... # 514 00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,000 I'm a sort of TV producer by trade. 515 00:29:57,040 --> 00:30:02,200 The biggest job we did together was the first series of Love Island. 516 00:30:02,240 --> 00:30:05,800 You know, it's a show about hot people falling in and out of love 517 00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:07,720 and having relationships they shouldn't have 518 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:08,960 and being a bit messy. 519 00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:12,760 And you're, like, literally that's Caroline Flack, the TV show. 520 00:30:12,800 --> 00:30:16,200 Hello, boys. ALL: Hello. Welcome to Love Island. 521 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:17,720 Thank you very much. 522 00:30:17,760 --> 00:30:20,320 And as a producer on it, you sit back and you're kind of thinking 523 00:30:20,360 --> 00:30:21,760 like it's kind of not real. 524 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:23,640 But to Caroline, it's like, "What do you mean? 525 00:30:23,680 --> 00:30:26,280 "Like it's these people that... Of course they're in love." 526 00:30:28,240 --> 00:30:30,040 She was struggling with her relationships. 527 00:30:30,080 --> 00:30:32,160 I think at that time she was trying to find 528 00:30:32,200 --> 00:30:34,360 a person to settle down with, I think. 529 00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:37,160 And then I found somebody and that wasn't easy, I think. 530 00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:40,720 I have no comment on that one. 531 00:30:40,760 --> 00:30:43,080 Everybody's asking me that. 532 00:30:43,120 --> 00:30:46,920 I don't feel like I had enough time for Carrie all the time. 533 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,240 Yeah. I feel bad, yeah. 534 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:52,600 Because it's irreversible now, 535 00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:55,000 so it's, you know, it's...final. 536 00:30:55,040 --> 00:30:57,280 So you don't get a chance to - 537 00:30:57,320 --> 00:30:58,320 to address it. 538 00:31:00,800 --> 00:31:04,120 Caroline never really wanted to grow up. 539 00:31:04,160 --> 00:31:07,560 I think she was really jealous of everyone else's 540 00:31:07,600 --> 00:31:10,480 emotional stability and their ability to settle down 541 00:31:10,520 --> 00:31:14,000 and get married and have children, and I think she really wanted that. 542 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:15,880 But it wasn't in her make-up. 543 00:31:15,920 --> 00:31:17,400 She just wasn't built that way. 544 00:31:19,040 --> 00:31:22,880 Caroline, why are you being like this? Come on, Caroline. 545 00:31:25,000 --> 00:31:27,800 It was really difficult for her to find that connection 546 00:31:27,840 --> 00:31:31,000 with somebody because her world became more and more surreal. 547 00:31:31,040 --> 00:31:32,440 Why are you being like this? 548 00:31:32,480 --> 00:31:37,120 And because of that negative element of her particular fame... 549 00:31:37,160 --> 00:31:38,840 ..I think it was hard to get someone, 550 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:40,840 to find somebody who understood that. 551 00:31:44,960 --> 00:31:47,600 First thing, congratulations, miss! Thank you very much. 552 00:31:47,640 --> 00:31:49,880 Can you show your sparkling ring to our camera, please? 553 00:31:49,920 --> 00:31:51,400 It needs resizing at the minute. 554 00:31:51,440 --> 00:31:54,440 That was very, yeah, sudden. Very sudden. 555 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:56,520 And I think at the time it was lovely. 556 00:31:56,560 --> 00:31:58,480 Talking weddings, have you got any plans yet? 557 00:31:58,520 --> 00:32:00,280 Oh! I don't even know what to do. 558 00:32:00,320 --> 00:32:03,600 I never thought I'd get married, so, for me, I don't know... 559 00:32:03,640 --> 00:32:06,960 Do I call someone up? Hi, I need to get married! 560 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,040 That was quite a turbulent relationship. 561 00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:13,480 She was really happy to get engaged and there was something 562 00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,120 about it that she felt would be OK and would work, 563 00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:17,160 but it didn't. 564 00:32:18,480 --> 00:32:19,840 It was probably tough 565 00:32:19,880 --> 00:32:21,960 to have a relationship with her, 566 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:23,360 but also brilliant. 567 00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,280 And actually, the truth is, if you want the best of Caroline, 568 00:32:27,320 --> 00:32:29,840 you have to take the worst of Caroline as well. 569 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:33,200 I just don't think, ultimately, 570 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:36,960 she met a man who quite had the balls to do that. 571 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:42,320 There is nothing more worrying than getting a text from Caroline 572 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:46,960 saying, "I've got a new man and you're really going to like him." 573 00:32:47,000 --> 00:32:50,880 So every time she got a boyfriend she really liked, we'd say, 574 00:32:50,920 --> 00:32:52,480 "Oh, it's lovely. 575 00:32:52,520 --> 00:32:55,000 "Maybe this time it'll all be right." 576 00:32:56,160 --> 00:32:59,440 That's awful. But it's true. 577 00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:02,080 "I've got a new man and you're really going to like him." 578 00:33:02,120 --> 00:33:03,760 Had that text several times. 579 00:33:03,800 --> 00:33:06,160 And every time I would think, 580 00:33:06,200 --> 00:33:07,440 "Fingers crossed." 581 00:33:07,480 --> 00:33:09,720 She'd meet someone, be very happy, 582 00:33:09,760 --> 00:33:14,000 but you were always worried that if it ended or when it ended, 583 00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:16,080 she would get... 584 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,960 She couldn't handle heartbreak. She couldn't - ever. 585 00:33:26,680 --> 00:33:28,400 When I look back now, I get it. 586 00:33:28,440 --> 00:33:31,920 She was feeling things so much more deeply than I would have done 587 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:33,320 in the same situation. 588 00:33:35,000 --> 00:33:39,440 And I don't think I really got that when we were younger. 589 00:33:41,320 --> 00:33:43,600 I just thought she was a pain in the arse. 590 00:33:47,480 --> 00:33:50,960 And now I get it. Now I understand that you'd be a friend, 591 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:53,320 and then there will come a certain point where you think, 592 00:33:53,360 --> 00:33:57,400 "Oh, come on, it's not THAT bad." But I think it was that bad. 593 00:34:05,960 --> 00:34:10,920 I just think she'd sometimes go into a place where she needed help. 594 00:34:10,960 --> 00:34:15,320 And usually it was - it was possible to help her. 595 00:34:15,360 --> 00:34:16,560 Sometimes it wasn't. 596 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:18,360 Sometimes you just couldn't get in. 597 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:25,840 Christmas, we didn't think she was coming, 598 00:34:25,880 --> 00:34:28,720 we didn't know where she was going. 599 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:33,840 Then Christmas morning, she said, "Are you at home?" 600 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:35,080 I was, "Of course I'm at home." 601 00:34:35,120 --> 00:34:38,800 And, um, cos we couldn't get hold of her on Christmas Eve and, 602 00:34:38,840 --> 00:34:42,680 um, and she drove up home and she had the last Christmas 603 00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:44,960 with us and it was lovely. 604 00:34:45,000 --> 00:34:47,640 So she, yeah, she forgot about trying to figure out 605 00:34:47,680 --> 00:34:49,120 what was going on for the day 606 00:34:49,160 --> 00:34:51,000 and came and had a really, really good time. 607 00:34:52,600 --> 00:34:55,000 We said that was the best, best thing. 608 00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:58,760 Then she laughed and we had fun with her and we thought, "Oh, maybe 609 00:34:58,800 --> 00:35:01,200 "she's turned the corner, you know, it'll be all right." 610 00:35:01,240 --> 00:35:04,040 And we said, "Now, just stay here until..." 611 00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:07,000 But then she got up Boxing Day and she drove home. 612 00:35:08,560 --> 00:35:13,120 Um, and you don't... You didn't know what was going on in her head. 613 00:35:14,680 --> 00:35:16,280 You just didn't know. 614 00:35:19,440 --> 00:35:20,840 Christmas came and went. 615 00:35:20,880 --> 00:35:25,880 She was being really sensible and looking after herself. 616 00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:30,120 And when the image turned up on January 1st, 2020 617 00:35:30,160 --> 00:35:33,680 on the front of The Sun, she almost gave up hope. 618 00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:41,120 The early hours at the morning of her arrest, there was an argument 619 00:35:41,160 --> 00:35:46,960 between Caroline and Lewis, he received a small cut to his head, 620 00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:49,280 which was treated on the scene when the police arrived, 621 00:35:49,320 --> 00:35:52,040 and then he went home with his mum. 622 00:35:52,080 --> 00:35:56,200 Her blood was on those sheets in the bedroom. 623 00:35:56,240 --> 00:35:59,040 That was her blood, she'd cut herself. 624 00:36:01,160 --> 00:36:05,640 She had to have plastic surgery on her arm where she'd cut it so bad. 625 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:11,480 She did do that when she got really low. 626 00:36:11,520 --> 00:36:13,800 She'd cut herself before. 627 00:36:13,840 --> 00:36:15,760 That was her worst nightmare, 628 00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:20,160 that she did not want that to be made public 629 00:36:20,200 --> 00:36:22,960 because she'd hurt herself 630 00:36:23,000 --> 00:36:26,840 and she didn't want to have to speak about that or... 631 00:36:26,880 --> 00:36:29,280 I don't know, she felt ashamed about that... 632 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:35,840 I have never had the kind of exposure or press intrusion 633 00:36:35,880 --> 00:36:37,280 that Caroline had. 634 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:39,480 That's ultimately what killed her, I believe. 635 00:36:39,520 --> 00:36:42,320 And, you know, I'm sure many others do. 636 00:36:43,560 --> 00:36:47,760 I think she realised that, you know, everything 637 00:36:47,800 --> 00:36:50,920 was going to be in the press and that they'd find out 638 00:36:50,960 --> 00:36:54,240 that she was... you know, had these dark moments. 639 00:36:55,320 --> 00:36:58,680 And she didn't - she didn't want people to know that. 640 00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,000 We've got some breaking news for you now. 641 00:37:23,040 --> 00:37:25,480 In the past few minutes, it's been confirmed that 642 00:37:25,520 --> 00:37:31,480 the TV presenter Caroline Flack has died at the age of 40... 643 00:37:33,800 --> 00:37:37,760 She was my little girl, but that was part of Jo. 644 00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:39,360 It's just... Just part of her. 645 00:37:42,240 --> 00:37:44,560 How do you start to come to terms with her loss? 646 00:37:46,040 --> 00:37:47,040 I don't know. 647 00:37:49,120 --> 00:37:50,840 Just... Just carry on. 648 00:37:56,200 --> 00:37:58,400 It's hard to see her and to hear her... 649 00:38:01,600 --> 00:38:03,560 ..so I sort of avoid it. 650 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:09,680 What would you say to her now? 651 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:18,000 I don't know. 652 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:35,240 Oh, do you remember that one? 653 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,520 That's when I had to cut all her hair off 654 00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,080 because she had eczema, so you kept long hair 655 00:38:40,120 --> 00:38:43,440 and that was the one time that you really looked...different. 656 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:44,880 THEY CHUCKLE SOFTLY Aw. 657 00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:50,800 Oh, that's a lovely one of Carrie. 658 00:38:50,840 --> 00:38:52,400 Oh, that's beautiful. 659 00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:55,880 I think it's hard to look at it recently because... Yeah. 660 00:38:55,920 --> 00:38:58,120 ..that's what we've lost. We've lost... 661 00:38:58,160 --> 00:39:00,000 We've lost Carrie. Yeah. 662 00:39:01,800 --> 00:39:03,480 Who do you blame for all of this? 663 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,280 I don't know. That's really difficult... 664 00:39:07,320 --> 00:39:08,680 That's really difficult... 665 00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:12,280 You know, you say, "Well, if she hadn't met Lewis, 666 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:14,040 "it wouldn't have happened. 667 00:39:14,080 --> 00:39:16,800 "If the police hadn't done that, it wouldn't have happened, 668 00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:18,920 "if she'd have got off with a caution..." 669 00:39:18,960 --> 00:39:22,400 You just don't... "If she hadn't done that," you know, and, you know, 670 00:39:22,440 --> 00:39:26,680 "If she hadn't looked at his phone and seen a text from a girl"... 671 00:39:26,720 --> 00:39:31,080 I just don't know, but Carrie's state of mind was such that... 672 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:34,360 ..any of those things could have done it 673 00:39:34,400 --> 00:39:36,320 because it was how she...was... 674 00:39:36,360 --> 00:39:40,800 Someone else could have probably dealt with it, but she couldn't. 675 00:39:40,840 --> 00:39:43,720 She just hated the thought that people thought she was like 676 00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:48,320 this awful person. And is that because she just really cared 677 00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:52,440 what everyone thought? Yeah, yeah, she wouldn't... Even when she'd 678 00:39:52,480 --> 00:39:56,560 taken pills as a young person, we weren't allowed to... 679 00:39:56,600 --> 00:39:58,040 She didn't want anyone to know. 680 00:39:58,080 --> 00:40:00,360 She didn't want anyone to know she got down. 681 00:40:00,400 --> 00:40:03,520 And I know they say, "Oh, everyone's talking about it now," 682 00:40:03,560 --> 00:40:06,720 but I think a lot of people that really suffer with depression 683 00:40:06,760 --> 00:40:08,360 still don't talk about it. 684 00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:10,840 They don't. 685 00:40:10,880 --> 00:40:13,520 You're either ashamed of it or you're frightened that 686 00:40:13,560 --> 00:40:16,880 they'll think something...about you, 687 00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:20,680 so I think people are still frightened to say it. 688 00:40:23,200 --> 00:40:25,320 What was she, about 14 there? 689 00:40:25,360 --> 00:40:27,480 Yeah. CHRISTINE CHUCKLES 690 00:40:27,520 --> 00:40:30,280 Oh, dear... I just... 691 00:40:31,720 --> 00:40:33,640 This is really sad... 692 00:40:34,880 --> 00:40:36,880 SHE SOBS 693 00:40:36,920 --> 00:40:39,840 ..but then I'm really pleased we've got all these...photos, 694 00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:42,320 but this is the first time I've looked through... 695 00:40:44,200 --> 00:40:45,520 SHE SNIFFLES 696 00:40:45,560 --> 00:40:46,640 ..to look through... 697 00:40:53,920 --> 00:40:55,760 Sorry. No, don't be. 698 00:41:00,240 --> 00:41:02,160 She wouldn't talk to me. 699 00:41:02,200 --> 00:41:04,480 I'd never known her do that before, actually. 700 00:41:04,520 --> 00:41:07,600 And then she got in touch and then, actually, we had a chat. 701 00:41:07,640 --> 00:41:09,560 She said it was fine. 702 00:41:09,600 --> 00:41:12,320 And then I took my eye off the ball 703 00:41:12,360 --> 00:41:14,760 and I spent maybe two or three days not worrying. 704 00:41:16,480 --> 00:41:19,760 That is what you learn, isn't it, about suicide? 705 00:41:19,800 --> 00:41:21,760 That often someone's just waiting for you 706 00:41:21,800 --> 00:41:23,320 to take your eye off the ball... 707 00:41:23,360 --> 00:41:25,760 ..and then they pretend everything's fine... 708 00:41:27,440 --> 00:41:28,440 ..when it's not. 709 00:41:32,840 --> 00:41:36,880 I just know that my heart breaks every time I think of Caz and think 710 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:39,880 of what she would have had to have gone through to take her own life, 711 00:41:39,920 --> 00:41:41,120 you know, that... 712 00:41:42,480 --> 00:41:46,440 And that's going to hurt for a long time cos it's... 713 00:41:47,760 --> 00:41:50,480 We got on... We were... We were great together. 714 00:41:50,520 --> 00:41:53,520 INAUDIBLE 715 00:41:53,560 --> 00:41:57,680 All that talent, all that love, all the joy that she brought, 716 00:41:57,720 --> 00:41:59,040 just gone. 717 00:42:02,160 --> 00:42:03,600 She has gone. 718 00:42:03,640 --> 00:42:05,440 It's... It's just horrible. 719 00:42:06,520 --> 00:42:09,800 And you feel like saying, "Come on, you've made your point, come back. 720 00:42:09,840 --> 00:42:12,800 "We've all listened, we've heard and I'm sorry... 721 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,160 "..that we didn't listen more, sooner." 722 00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:19,600 It was playing out in slow motion for us. 723 00:42:19,640 --> 00:42:21,240 We still didn't do enough. 724 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,600 # If I had to do it all again 725 00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:29,280 # I wouldn't change a single thing 726 00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:32,680 # There's no question in my heart... # 727 00:42:32,720 --> 00:42:35,360 It's difficult to think all of the things that you remember 728 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:37,240 about her, really. 729 00:42:37,280 --> 00:42:41,640 I think it was that she was funny. She just used to make us laugh. 730 00:42:41,680 --> 00:42:43,720 Hello, I'm Caroline Flack. 731 00:42:43,760 --> 00:42:47,840 SHE LAUGHS HEARTILY 732 00:42:51,520 --> 00:42:53,480 I was proud of her there. 733 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:56,640 She was good at her job, and I... 734 00:42:56,680 --> 00:42:58,440 I like the fact that she... 735 00:42:59,920 --> 00:43:03,800 ..had so many people that did really like her, didn't they? 736 00:43:05,120 --> 00:43:07,720 But it's awful that you don't know that... 737 00:43:07,760 --> 00:43:09,680 You know, when you're feeling that bad... 738 00:43:12,160 --> 00:43:14,920 Toodle-oo, everyone. Toodle-oo. 739 00:43:14,960 --> 00:43:18,120 # Goodbye, goodbye, we're very sad to see you go 740 00:43:18,160 --> 00:43:23,560 # Goodbye, goodbye, it's time to wave goodbye! # 741 00:43:23,600 --> 00:43:25,800 APPLAUSE Toodle-oo.Toodle-oo. 742 00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,360 # Welcome to your life 743 00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:33,120 # There's no turning back... # 744 00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:36,360 I just won't ever forget that she made my life much more fun 745 00:43:36,400 --> 00:43:38,280 than it ever would have been. 746 00:43:38,320 --> 00:43:41,240 I've never met anyone like her, I'll never meet anyone else like her. 747 00:43:41,280 --> 00:43:44,800 If I walked into the same room as her, like, across the bar, 748 00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:48,120 she'd throw her hand in the air, "Pinky!" 749 00:43:48,160 --> 00:43:50,960 You'd light up because you knew she was so happy to see you, 750 00:43:51,000 --> 00:43:53,360 so she made you feel a million dollars in that moment... 751 00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:56,800 I've just always got this image of her one arm in the air, just like... 752 00:43:59,800 --> 00:44:02,000 Yeah, it was nice to talk... It was good to talk today. 753 00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:03,760 I enjoyed talking about her. 754 00:44:03,800 --> 00:44:06,960 # It's my own design 755 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:11,920 # It's my own remorse... # 756 00:44:11,960 --> 00:44:15,800 I never had as much fun with anybody ever, 757 00:44:15,840 --> 00:44:18,120 so, while she was living, it was good fun. 758 00:44:18,160 --> 00:44:20,200 Band metal! 759 00:44:20,240 --> 00:44:22,760 # ..freedom and of pleasure 760 00:44:22,800 --> 00:44:24,160 # Nothing ever lasts forever... # 761 00:44:24,200 --> 00:44:27,800 That's my memory, you know, because that's what they were like, 762 00:44:27,840 --> 00:44:30,800 even at, like, 40-year-olds. 763 00:44:30,840 --> 00:44:32,160 # ..rule the world 764 00:44:32,200 --> 00:44:36,280 # There's a room where the light won't find you... # 765 00:44:36,320 --> 00:44:39,520 Even though Carrie struggled, emotionally, 766 00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:41,640 she was not a weak person. 767 00:44:41,680 --> 00:44:45,000 Her emotional struggles were just a little part of who she was, 768 00:44:45,040 --> 00:44:48,640 and she was actually someone who lived a great life 769 00:44:48,680 --> 00:44:51,040 that was really full of joy. 770 00:44:51,080 --> 00:44:53,800 That's what's so great you miss about her. 771 00:44:53,840 --> 00:44:58,800 # Everybody wants to rule the world. # 772 00:45:08,600 --> 00:45:14,160 We all needed a place just to come and sit and remember, really, 773 00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:16,440 this just fitted it. It was just... 774 00:45:16,480 --> 00:45:17,720 Just beautiful. 775 00:45:18,960 --> 00:45:21,200 You come here and... 776 00:45:21,240 --> 00:45:24,200 I don't know, I think it allows you to talk to Carrie 777 00:45:24,240 --> 00:45:26,440 cos you feel silly anywhere else! 778 00:45:28,280 --> 00:45:29,840 Here she is. 779 00:45:29,880 --> 00:45:32,480 SHE LAUGHS 780 00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:35,480 She's become a wooden bench! THEY LAUGH 781 00:45:35,520 --> 00:45:36,520 Aw... 782 00:45:38,000 --> 00:45:40,280 It's as if she's there, really. 783 00:45:40,320 --> 00:45:41,680 As if she's still here... 784 00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:44,280 ..but she's not. 785 00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:52,920 "Our beautiful girl whose tiny feet made such a big imprint 786 00:45:52,960 --> 00:45:54,560 "on the world, 787 00:45:54,600 --> 00:45:57,120 "Carrie, we miss and love you so very much. 788 00:45:58,680 --> 00:46:02,680 "Just to have another moment, another kiss, another smile, 789 00:46:02,720 --> 00:46:04,880 "one more chance to hear you laughing 790 00:46:04,920 --> 00:46:06,680 "or just to hold you for a while." 791 00:46:08,800 --> 00:46:10,760 And I think that said it all, really. 792 00:46:13,600 --> 00:46:14,600 SHE SNIFFLES 793 00:46:40,840 --> 00:46:45,360 Subtitles by Red Bee Media