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

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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

Mike Thallisitis aka Muggy Mike (although I hate the fact he was called the last name it was what he was known as in the end.)
His death rocked me to my core and took me a while to feel like the shock had lifted. I don't even know why. He was a desperately beautiful man and he appeared to have so much going for him to the outside world so when I heard of his passing I felt genuinely gutted.
It was the same with Sophie Gradon when she took her life, it actually made me cry :( and then when her boyfriend did the same a couple of weeks later just added to the awful feeling i was carrying around.
I feel I relate to these people more because we are of similar age and I find it difficult to imagine what they were all feeling and going through in those last moments. They had hundreds of thousands of followers between them, if not millions and yet they all felt so alone.
I see there is a Love Island theme here but there's really no connection as to how I felt. I guess I just felt these were people's lives I followed closely and with interest. Maybe I was somewhat a fan and so it was difficult to hear the news more so than other celebrity's I didn't know so well.

Mikes death too. Totally felt that one. I probably felt the same then as I do right now

Oh yeah - other sad deaths........ Amy Winehouse, and Dolores O'Riorden, and Keith Flint, and Chester Benington, and Chris Cornell, and Heath Ledger, and River Phoenix, and Luke Perry, and Caroline Aherne, and Robin Williams, and Jade Goody too. Jade may have been hard work, and divided opinions, but I found her death sad.........

So many people gone with very untimely deaths..............

@Legoandloldolls I am sorry to hear of your friend committing suicide.

Five of my DD's friends have commit suicide in the last 7 years. FIVE of them. 2 at school, 2 at college and 1 at uni. Absolutely awful and upset her (and her other pals,) so much........ Just can't get our heads round it at all.

I don't remember anyone taking their own life when I was at school. Tragic.

Mine was Mike Thalassitis last year. I'd watched him on Love Island and I just couldn't shake the sadness of him dying. I don't really know where it came from, I haven't really felt about another celebrity death like that before and I wasn't even a big fan. I wonder whether sometimes it just stops you in your tracks a bit.

Stephen Gately’s death really upset me. I was on Majorca when it happened and I remember feeling really shaken by the news.

I was also upset by Peaches Geldof as I followed her on instagram and she always seemed like the perfect mum. Such a shame.

No, I've never been hit hard by a celebrity/TV presenter death. I must be weird. I can feel that it's sad someone took their own life, or died too young, but actual shock or grief only gets me with people I actually know. I found the Diana thing a bizarre mass hysteria.

I'm not sure that Caroline's death was directly linked to Love Island but I do think that the fame and fortune it brings by being involved in the show, alongside the media coverage and the internet trolling can be a factor in the fact she had no private life anymore.

Oh forgot Stephen Gateley! Also so sad..........

I’m very, very sad about it too. Felt sick when I heard, just horrendous.

Actually the time span is 10 years that the 5 people my DD knew commit suicide. All since summer 2010.... (sorry....)

@40somethingJBJ I remember I was very moved by the fact the other boyzone members slept in the church on the floor next to his coffin so he wouldn’t be alone the night before his funeral. Heartbreaking.

I wasn’t a particular fan of hers but it’s totally shocked me too. I was on the bus coming home when I read it and let out an audible gasp.

DH was just as shocked when I told him too.

Maybe it’s because we’re the same age as her and both struggled with mental health, but we both just feel so sad and shaken by it.

I'm remember turning on the news and the breaking news was that Amy Winehouse had died. It made me feel so desperately sad, having watched her struggle for so long. I couldn't stop thinking of her for days.

Prince as well. In a different way but was so completely shocked.

Diana.

Very sad to hear about Caroline Flack today. Poor woman, and her poor family.

Rik Mayalls death made me cry. Also Carrie Fisher.

Caroline Flack's suicide has exposed the hypocrites in the British media. You can see it on twitter, people pulling up proof of two faced journalists gleefully ripping her to shreds weeks ago and now posting eulogies about how wonderful and caring she was, and even apparently deleting articles they'd written about her...

Nope, never.

Paula Yates and then years later her daughter.

Heath ledger, Chester Bennington and Alan Rickman all hit me hard 😢

Lane Staley...he seemed such a gentle soul.
Sadly he died in the exact circumstances he had predicted.

Cory Monteith for me too.

I don't watch her programmes but she's the kind of person you just know about. I'm really, really shocked and angry too actually.

I know we don't know 'the reasons' but I'm betting social media/the internet played a part. This must mobilise us to greater regulations.

Yes, I wonder how many journalists have been camped outside her home lately and following her down every street. Which newspapers do they work for? I can't help speculate that if the papers had paid less attention to her domestic fight, she might have got through this. Before they say 'well it's news and we're only giving people what we want' in the great scheme of things - Boris, Brexit, Trump, a deadly virus - it really shouldn't have warranted more than a paragraph.

Avicii hit me hard. Robin Williams too.

Any death that's too early. And any death by suicide.

A friend at school hung herself. I myself attempted suicide as a teen. DH's Dad and Grandad both ended their lives via suicide.

It’s very tragic.

Bizarrely enough, although she would have been desperately unhappy before hand, deciding to end it all she may have found peace knowing the pain would be over. My friend was happiest before she died. Because she knew what was coming and we didn't.

Brittany Murphy. I genuinely forget shes passed

I lost my brother to suicide 20 years ago, and I think of him numerous times a day, sometimes with sadness, sometimes with a smile. It feels different to a ‘usual’ death (illness, old age etc) and I do find that people don’t want to / can’t talk about him the way they will about other lost friends or relatives. It makes me extra sad, IYSWIM? The manner of his death shouldn’t mean we can’t talk about him, surely? So many things remind me of him, yet I feel as if I can’t mention him, and I struggle with that.
Poor Caroline, her situation was not a million miles from my brothers, so I can empathise with her. We lost my brother at 44, so so young, I wish her family much strength and love. Xx

Like PP I also felt great sadness at Mike T from LI, a beautiful young man with his whole life ahead of him

Caroline, well, I just can't believe it, so dreadfully sad, truly tragic.