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

She's dead, yet people are still being cunts about her. Just leave her the fuck alone

She's dead, yet people are still being cunts about her. Just leave her the fuck alone.

They can't. Some people seem to get a kick out of this kind of stuff.

Cant day I’ve ever shed a tear for someone I never met . People die every day . I’ll save my tears for those I love and who loved me .

She had mental health problems. She had spoken about depression previously, even when at a peak eg the Strictly Win. She was on antidepressants and was very clearly in a terrible place, yes, as a result of her actions that night which were awful, but also the hammering she took in the press for it. She has now killed herself. I struggle to understand the venom of some posters when a daughter, sister and friend has died. I don’t claim her to be perfect or a saint, nor do I think the case should have been dropped. However I do think she was horribly bullied by the press and spiteful, cruel people who could and should have let the courts handle it instead.

Peaches Geldof’s death got to me because she had young children and so did I at the time. I kept imagining mine looking for me and me never coming back and just breaking down. Again, never met her, wasn’t particularly a fan when she was alive.

I sobbed when Bowie died - he was such a part of my growing up and it was so sudden and unexpected.

Gary Speed got to me. Rewatching him on Football Focus the day before was horrible. In retrospect, it was clear that he wasn't ok.

This has really affected me. So much.

Today 10:38 YellowPansy

We are all entitled to have opinions. But anyone who could actually type that on an open forum mere hours after she died is beyond comprehension

Would it have killed you to have kept that nasty comment inside ? Do you realise there is a chance her bereaved Ones
Might see that ?

Sheesh.

I have never been upset at the death of someone I don't know. Probably the closest would have been Kurt Cobain, but that was more me being selfish as it meant no more Nirvana.

Yes I am one of those people who keeps thinking about Caroline since she died on Saturday. I liked her. A pure, genuine and talented girl - such a tragedy. I wish she had had the support she needed.

yes , things like this don't normally affect me - but that picture outside the court , it was plain to see she was suffering .

Its very sad that she could not see the bigger picture - even with the court case she could have gone away with friends afterwards and let it all calm down - it would have come right in the end I am sure .

I feel sorry for her family and especially her nieces . How are they going to understand ?

Although it didn't upset me a great deal at the time, I was rewatching dinnerladies recently and was overwhelmed with grief at the loss of Victoria Wood.
I was thinking how I'd have loved to see more of it, what happened when they left the canteen. The idea we'd never see it suddenly devastated me.

personally I do think the case should have proceeded - however the posters on here who still continue to judge what the outcome would have been , are well out of order.

They are the kind of people who believe everything they read and see in the papers without the facts .

There was a picture of the boyfriend the day after and he had hardly a mark on him and he said a lot of the blood was actually hers - so everyone including the media should have backed off until the case had been heard . Perhaps then we might not have been writing these posts .

I don't think there was one contributing factor I am sure this must have just been the last straw .

The hypocrisy on MN is laughable. All of this bleating about how 'troubled' she was. If this was a male celebrity who dated a 17 year old and smashed his partner over the head with a lamp the reactions would be markedly different

ALLEGEDLY HIT. What is wrong with you people? Its not hypocrisy to say she was innocent until proven guilty. There are some really awful people on MN, its threads like this that they all crawl out of the woodwork for

Also he was 27 not 17. So maybe read some facts before posting such tripe

Although it didn't upset me a great deal at the time, I was rewatching dinnerladies recently and was overwhelmed with grief at the loss of Victoria Wood.

Yes I know what you mean. I got a similar feeling when watching dinner ladies recently. Like - oh no she's gone! A lot of celebrities died in 2016 and I was mostly bothered about Bowie at the time, and probably I didn't process the others.

everyone including the media should have backed off until the case had been heard . Perhaps then we might not have been writing these posts.

I agree 100% @SusieOwl4. Funny how yesterday so many people on here were all #bekind, then true to form for many, the bitchiness is back today. Didn't take long did it.

John Lennon, Amy Winehouse, George Michael

And Emma Chambers from the Vicar of Dibley

@loobyloo1234
I'm aware. Harry Styles was 17 when she dated him though.

It's not 'alleged' that she hit him - both of them have spoken about it. She just hadn't been convicted.

ALLEGEDLY HIT. What is wrong with you people?

So man rings 999 and says "she's trying to kill me" and "she's cracked open my head" and tells the Police "she hit me on the head with a lamp" and it's allegedly? What happened to always believing someone? If we have I Believe Her why can't we extend the same courtesy to I Believe Him?

'If this was a male celebrity who dated a 17 year old and smashed his partner over the head with a lamp the reactions would be markedly different'

Tbh I expect quite a lot of people here feel that way but you choose your moments. A couple of days after someone has died unexpectedly in somewhat tragic circumstances is maybe not the best time.

PineappleCocktail

Generally I would agree but the eulogising of Caroline Flack has been so over the top, I think it does need balance and excuses for DV are just sickening whoever the perpetrator is.

I love how everyone is all "alleged" but where was this same energy defending Johnny Depp?

Quite. The energy that some people are willing to put into defending someone who was, by her own admission a domestic abuser is fucking alarming.