To ask if you've ever felt like this about a celebrity's death

[twelveminutespast]

I didn't know Caroline and she didn't know me, but I can't shake this feeling of sadness about her death. It's really stopped me in my tracks.

To know that someone else felt like life wasn't worth living is just the most horrendous and awful thing to me. I do believe she would have made it through the court case the other side. I'm wondering what she was thinking during her final moments.

I feel so saddened.

Has anyone else ever felt like this about a celebrity when they've passed? If so, who? It probably sounds really pathetic as I didn't know her, but I can't stop thinking about it

I've felt the same all evening myself. Can't seem to shake it off I feel terrible for her that she was suffering so badly. I do think she was murdered by media.
The last time I felt this saddened by a celebrity death that I couldn't shake off was Amy Winehouse. For the same reasons as Caroline I felt she was hounded by the press.

For me it was Princess Diana. It was unsettling. I think the next one that will get to me will be the Queen. Actually, I think a lot of people will be surprised by how affected they are by the Queen’s passing. She’s just been there forever.

Caroline Flack, whilst obviously tragic, I didn’t know her or watch any of her programmers. I’ve actually just watched a clip of her on YouTube because although I certainly recognised her face I didn’t know what her voice sounded like.

@JaceLancs God yes I remember hearing about Peaches. Her poor kids without their mummy

John Lennon. I know it wasn’t self harm or addiction but it was awful and such a shock.

I am also really upset by this. I haven’t even really seen any of her tv work apart from strictly years ago, I did really like her then. But never watched any of her presenting shows.

I’m not sure why this death in particular makes me so bleak. I have loved ones who have killed themselves and have had suicidal thoughts myself in the past. I can’t bear to think of how hopeless people feel. And the devastation it lands upon the family afterwards is horrific.

I know what you mean op. For me I think it's because she's a woman, close in age to me, feels quite relatable.

Also apart from the recent problems as far as I was aware, she'd had no drug/alcohol problems and seemed to be doing well.

Yep I am shellshocked. So tragic. I wonder what on earth was going on in her head? I feel many others have been through worse, and not taken their own lives.

I was very upset and affected by the deaths of...

Michael Jackson.

Princess Di.

Prince.

George Michael.

Carrie Fisher.

David Bowie.

Freddie Mercury.

And also Peaches Geldof. She was on morning TV a few months before her death and seemed fine.

Also Corey Monteith's death was sad. And the suicide of the guy who played Puckerman in Glee. (Mark Salling.) Mark was about to get 10 years or so for sexual assault, and he deserved that. But the fact that he killed himself just before is trial was just really dark and depressing.

Makes me glad I am a little nobody living in the sticks, who hardly anyone knows........

And I really do HATE people scoffing and mocking and saying people have 'no right' to be upset. (Coz we didn't know these people personally.) Well, I feel like I did, because they were a part of my life for a while, maybe a small part, maybe a large part, but a part nevertheless. I feel like I knew them more than my own extended family (who I only saw once or twice a year,) in some ways.

People have no right to tell me - or anyone else - how to feel, or that we have no right to be upset.

I remember seeing her on Kathy Burke’s tv programme in the summer, and I remember thinking at the time she seemed deeply unhappy, despite saying everything to the contrary. She literally seemed to me on the verge of tears.

I loved Flack on Love Island, I actually though that she made the show and I was rooting for her to return to the summer one, provided she was cleared of course. It's not going to be the same how.

@twelveminutespast exactly that. I feel so sad for the loneliness she must’ve felt and how it got to the point that she felt that this was the only solution. It’s just desperate.

Heath Ledger really upset me.

Dolores O'Riordan for me

@KittyWindbag I haven't seen that. What was she talking about?

Peaches Gelfof - when I read that she had died I felt really affected by it in an almost indescribable way. It didn't make me cry, but something felt like it shifted in my gut and it really made me reassess my own mortality if that makes sense.

Chester from Linkin Park

I cried when I heard about the deaths of George Michael and Alan Rickman

Robin Williams. Hook was one of my favourite films as a kid and I’ve rewatched it as an adult but I can’t anymore. The DCs love the Night at the Museum films and his last line makes me want to cry.

Chester Bennington - I don’t feel quite so emotional, I’ve never been particularly bothered about “the people behind the music”, but linkin park music was the soundtrack to my first breakdown as a teen, when I saw them live they were incredible but even before he died I had to stop listening to them.

I don’t know anything about Caroline Flack but it is still an awful tragedy for anyone to feel that low that they can’t see a way out. It scares me - even when I did OD it was more about needing help than wanting to end it.

I think the show was called ‘all woman’. It was about being a woman, and one episode was focused on women having a career as opposed to choosing traditional family life. They interviewed Caroline flack briefly. It was channel 4 I think.

I felt shocked to the core about River Phoenix, I was about 17 at the time and I actually felt sick when I heard on the radio.
It’s as shocking today to hear about a young woman who still had so much life to live.

Robin Williams for me. I found him so relatable and dead poets society was a huge influence on my teenage years and how he died. You just never know what people are going through.

More recently a wonderful feminist Irish broadcaster called Marian Finucane. She died of a heart attack. She was wonderful and was on the radio every weekend and I juat thought what will I do now weekend mornings and even said this morning I must turn on Marian.

I felt a real sadness when I heard about Robin Williams. I was pregnant at the time and emotional anyway but for some reason I really felt it.

I've had the same, if not worse feeling this evening. I wasn't even really a huge fan of Caroline's, I didn't know much about her but I've really felt for her recently. The way the media has pushed and pushed her to breaking point is horrendous. No one deserves to have their life scrutinised in that way. She was clearly struggling with her mental health. There is so much more awareness and acceptance of it these days yet she was bullied into taking her own life.
It's such a waste, I dread to think how she must have been feeling in those final moments.

The media needs to start being held accountable.

Prince Rogers Nelson 💜

It is hard when anyone commits suicide. A friend killed himself two years ago. It's never talked about. I felt like I had no right to grieve for them. His partner was so strong and I didnt want to be a 'grief thief' so it was very weird and felt extremely personal to the family and I wasnt in that world any more. They pop into my head on the occasionally sunny day i wonder ' would you regret the decision if you knew now...." but really it's like they never existed now. Because when someone dies naturally you talk about them. With this, it isn't talked about. Suicide is so horrible for the love ones you leave behind. I dont mean me as a distant friend, but the damage to the immediate family. It's like setting off a bomb that blows there entire life apart. People on the outer circles keep everything unsaid.

So for that reason, I cant help but feel sad about it. But it's not like I would ever cry. I never cried in public for my friend. Just had to pretend it didnt happen as that's what his wife needed.

Peaches geldof was a shocker. She seemed such a loving mum. She used to post sweet pictures of her kids. Then that happened.

Mike from love island. I've never watched it but knew who he was from social media. It was that feeling of a good looking man with his whole life ahead walked to a park to end it all.

I wonder what they are thinking in those last few minutes of life. I can't imagine how bad they feel to see nothing in the future worth living for.

I feel very sad about it. I have never watched any of her shows but it's so sad.l, she clearly needed help. Love island needs to stop now, this is the fourth suicide linked to the show. Sophie Gradon. Aaron Armstrong. Mike Thalassitis. Caroline Flack.