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

As an adult- Amy Winehouse
I think the saddest part was that she had been getting better and didn’t want to die. I haven’t been able to enjoy her music since, it makes me sob.

As a teen - Kurt Cobain. It came after a school friend was killed in a car accident. The world just felt hopeless to me then.

I remember having a dream about Amy Winehouse dying about a month before she did, very weird.
Robin Williams' death really saddened me, but many of the others have too.

Whenever I hear of these stories in the news now , I always wonder who's next :(

@anonacfr, I remain affected by Layne Staley's death too. He did seem like such a sweetheart and it's so sad to think of him dying all alone

Also Dermot Morgan, Chris Cornell and George Michael.

I've never watched anything she was in and have only learned anything about her reading reports this evening.

She was obviously a troubled soul who had lost control. I hope she's found the peace she needed.

Yes, felt like this about many celebrities. George Michael, Prince, Freddie Mercury, Robin Williams; I could go on.

Not particularly a Caroline Flack fan either, but this has really upset me. To me it feels like death by media bullying.
Caroline Aherne also really upset me, she just always seemed to be troubled and never really found peace whilst alive.
Also Peaches Geldof, couldn’t stop thinking about her youngest being left alone in the house with her. Horrific. She was someone who you really thought had turned her world round.

I did about Whitney Houston and Amy Winehouse. Also about a celebrity you won't have heard of here - Gay Byrne. Princess Diana shocked me but I didn't cry.

I watched this tonight and cried. She was relatable.

I felt like this about Freddie Mercury and very recently Neil Peart. But the passing of many others has made me feel sad. Victoria Wood died while my DH was in ICU after major surgery and I found that very hard to process.

I had no idea who Caroline Flack was, but there’s always a particular kind of sadness when someone (anyone, celebrity or not) dies by suicide. It’s tinged with regret and anger that their suffering led them to this and that they could not be saved.

She was hounded and broken and I wish there was someone who could've been there

I think any suicide is utterly awful.

I am not really into celebrity news but I felt the way she was treated in the news as appalling. If she has been a man, I’m sure she would have been treated very differently. Double standards and that has made me feel very sad for her and her family.

Yes to Tom Petty, and also for some reason, Philip Seymour Hoffman.

I felt sadness at the death of people like Fred Hollows, but that's to be expected, because he made such a difference to the world.

Amy Winehouse for me. I used to see her around, she lived locally to me, she was around my age and I was a massive fan. Like a PP I just can't listen to her music anymore.

Link to the Kathy Burke interview with Caroline mentioned upthread, the whole documentary is very good:

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ShAPTNJYmBg

Rik Mayall

I burst into tears when I heard about Victoria wood. Felt ashamed of myself didn’t even know her but watched everything she had done for years

Kobe Bryant due to the circumstances.

Caroline Aherne’s death really effected me. Still does.

Victoria Wood’s death really upset me. Peaches Geldof’s death also made me really sad - the circumstances were awful and that poor toddler who was with her. It just makes you ache.

Robin Williams - I was on holiday and I just remember everyone in shock. You never know what’s going on with somebody.

Caroline Flack, for whatever she did wrong, was hounded by our media. When she tried to live her life, they followed her and posted snarky articles about what she was doing. She was damned if she did, damned if she didn’t and I honestly don’t see how her career would have recovered. It’s just so sad and I feel awful for her and her family.

I felt sick when I found out. I’m not going to pretend it’s because I cared about her any more than any other person in the street. But because suicide (which we’re all assuming it was) is just such a disturbing concept and thinking about it fills me with dread. I always worry that a famous suicide dominating the news will trigger other vulnerable people to do the same.

I had suicidal thoughts after my daughter was born (Severe PND). At the time, there was a girl, local to me, who had just had a baby and she committed suicide by drowning herself and her baby. The story resonated with me so deeply. It literally echoed in my head and felt like a suggestion. It was on the news constantly in my area.

Terry Wogan for me; I still get a little bit upset if I hear his voice unexpectedly on the radio.

Alan Rickman. I still can't watch his films because I find it too upsetting. Also Patrick Swayze

Patrick Swayze. But I was very upset over Chris Cornell,he was a legend in my eyes & always will be.

Me too have cried tears. Terrible tragedy. She must have felt so desperate.

I completely understand what you mean OP. I cried when I heard. I'd heard of her but didn't know her, didn't watch her.

I think it touched me because I too have suicidal thoughts, regularly. I have kids and they're the only thing they has stopped me.

I regularly read the thread where posters have lost a parent to suicide. I'll always remember one poster who asked was was she so unlovable that even her mum couldn't stay with her.

I struggle constantly.

Although Peaches and Robin didn't affect me as much as Caroline.