She could take it on the chin, admit her wrong doing but it’s never enough for people anymore. There is no way to be redeemed. Nothing that people can do to have a life after a mistake when you are in the public eye.
I don’t think this is always true as there are a few celebrities (eg Cheryl Tweedy, Chris Brown etc) who have gone on to have a career, perhaps more of a career, after their assault convictions. Then again, as every year goes by, I think the media and social media is more and more brutal and covers so much more.
I can’t see the the CPS would have been pursuing without thinking they had a strong case and they do need to be there to take on these cases for times when the victim is either too scared or at the wrong stage in a relationship to be able to press charges themselves. We won’t know now whether she was an abuser who should have been prosecuted or whether an example was being made of her because of her fame.
Regardless, this is a sad situation where a young woman probably perceived herself as old due to the industry she was in and her mental health saw no other way out. From the reports I’ve read, Caroline was barely on her own in recent weeks which makes me wonder whether her friends and family were on an informal suicide watch because they feared this.