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

Her poor mind must have been in an absolute turmoil. It doesn’t bare thinking about. It just shows money certainly doesn’t buy you happiness

You cannot escape your head .
I'm guessing she felt she had no where to turn, no one who could help.

She had Lots of friends but when you are at that point that part is irrelevant. There is no way to beat those feelings

FlamingoBob

Spot On

@Tombakersscarf

the idea that suicide can be stopped just with kindness - well I'd hate to hear that if my relative had committed suicide.

This. I have found this really hard this week. I know it isn't all about me but having suicide discussed en masse with so many people making sweeping generalisations is tough when you are bereaved by suicide. I know the loss that my family experienced was not caused by lack of love or kindness but it looks like the rest of the world seem to think so. It is way more complex in every case.

I feel desperately sad for Caroline and for all who love her.

This may well be in poor taste and please report if offended but I read an article a few months back by a friend (or a 'friend') of CF's which talked about how she struggled in relationships and they'd start off great and then get to a certain point and all go to shit, and that it was a pattern which played out over and over.

I came away thinking it sounded likely she had borderline personality disorder (or emotionally unstable personality disorder). I work in this area and recognised some of the signs.

It is a really horrible disorder to suffer from, and sadly there can be overlap with DA, in both victims and perpetrators.

It's very sad anyway.

But for me Tom Petty was the one that really broke my heart 💔 (pun intended!)

I grew up with his music and he always seemed like such a lovely man. He'd just retired from touring to spend more time with his daughter, who's childhood he missed a lot of, and grandchild and then he died. Makes me so sad that they never got to have that time 😢

I can only just listen to his music again now. I'm so thankful I got to see him at Hyde Park not long before he passed. It was one of the best days of my life.

FlamingoBob - have you seen 13 Reasons Why? I think you'll find that pretty much does exactly the same thing, although there is one more serious event that would be the main trigger, and the rest were more subsidiary.

Anyway, it's certainly along the same lines of "many acts adding up to being too much to bear". You can probably find it on Netflix, if you have that. It's a bit harrowing though.

Agree about 13 reasons why. It really resonated with me how everything builds up and becomes too much. I thought it was a really good show and found it hard to watch but oddly useful.

I had people on my social media account laughing at and celebrating her death, saying it was deserved, and 'natural selection.'

Bloody hell, this is pretty shocking. I think I'd be having a look who's on my social media @Username109876.

radio zleb who's been in public tears, a statement from the filthy Russell Brand, some stupidity from Katie Hopkins and on and on
To be fair, if the radio zleb was Laura Whitmore, they were good friends and her partner was her colleague on Love Island. I think Russell Brand worked with her too. Agree with you on the rest of the zlebs and the social media grief vampires with their 'be kind' # when they will join any available pile on at any time. I dread to think what Katie Hopkins had to say. Nothing she says is useful or helpful in any circumstances.