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

Any Winehouse's death really affected me too

I'm not feeling as sad about Caroline's death as I am Kobe Bryant's. He was a real talent and his daughter lost her lie at the same time as his which is even more tragic.

Also Patrick Swayze

Oh my God. When o read that name I was thinking, British guy from star trek has died?

Had to Google and I was thinking of Patrick Stewart

Iv'e never neard of her, sorry.

No. The violent death of an anonymous child is very upsetting to me, but privileged famous people who mostly get the life they wanted and die as adults, however their lives end -- I can't muster sadness for them.

I guess the death of Princess Diana stayed with me -- it felt so enormously unnecessary (avoidable). We all felt like we knew her personally. The shock of it was hard to shake off. Then Her poor children had to grieve publicly. I suppose (again this is about children suffering) it was seeing her children grieve publicly that makes me feel sad.

I'm sad that she took her own life, but I never wanted Love Island or anything with her on....I didn't know who she was! But it's always sad to hear of people committing suicide. My DH tried a few years ago and (fortunately) failed. It's dark and it's horrible

soleilviolet his daughter yesand it was a tragedy.but sad for a rapist is very hard

I don’t understand- not sure if I am missing something , she attacked her BF? Would people be sympathetic if a male attacked a female?

Heath Ledger
Cory Monteith
Rik Mayall
Peaches Geldof

Peaches really got to me as I had a dd of a similar age as her youngest and couldn’t help think of him alone with her and crying for her not understanding why she couldn’t come to him.

Bryant wasnt a rapist. I'm disgusted that you would actually bring an unproven allegation up in a thread of dead people

Heath Ledger and Prince.

Amy Winehouse here too.

I'm really feeling her death too. I felt like this about peaches, I followed her on Twitter and her boys where the same age as my girls. She used to co sleep with them and I just couldn't shake the idea of those boys being so confused and upset about where their mummy was.

I cried when I heard about George Michael. His music was a massive part of my growing up, starting to go out clubbing etc.

Also John Peel. My dad died when I was young so people dying and leaving their kids behind always gets me.

CoreY montieth and robin williams for me, I remember this awful feeling after I found out about each of them.

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.

No. He was waiting for sentencing after being convicted for possessing tens of thousands of images of child sexual abuse. The sexual assault charge happened a few years previously.

Another one for Peaches Geldof. We're a similar age and I grew up hearing about her and Paula Yates. The way her death mirrored her mother's really got to me. It just felt like it didn't have to be that way.

George Harrison. I walked to work that morning with "Here Comes The Sun" in my head, and tears in my eyes.
Georgie Best.
Elvis.

Any Winehouse

John Lennon (I was 12)
Rik Mayall
Victoria Wood

Mike Thalassitis for me, I barely even knew who he was but had watched that crappy dating show and he seemed so cock sure of himself on there, I didn’t think he was very likeable but he did seem to have the world at his feet, yet he felt so down he took his own life. That really shocked me, a rich good looking young man who seemed to have the lifestyle he wanted but it ended so sadly.

What a mawkish thread.

It was Kirsty MacColl's death that upset me, in the blink of an eye, in front of her boys and justice not done.

Op I feel the same and can't really explain to myself why I feel so upset. I watched her on Strictly and X Factor and liked her but don't watch LI so not really paid that much attention in recent years. She was close to me in age. I was aware of the allegations and i felt there was more to it than the version being reported in the press. When I heard she had killed herself I felt so shocked but also that it was inevitable in light of what was going on in her life. She had always seemed a bit fragile. But before all this she seemed so full of life and like things were going really well for her. Then whatever happened that night, lost her job, not allowed contact with her boyfriend, court case, all over the press. Her life basically fell apart over night in front of everyone's eyes. It's just so, so sad and tragic.

I feel that the worst part of Caroline Flack's death is because she seems to have been driven to it by the media. She was clearly fragile and I am in no way defending whatever happened between her and her boyfriend, I can't because I don't know. But, for someone to feel so relentlessly hounded and ridiculed that they actually take their own life is so desperately sad. I also saw a post she made a few months ago when she says that she had turned to someone for help and they had called her 'draining' and that being a burden was her biggest fear. That must have been so incredibly difficult to cope with if she felt that way.

There's always another way, she just couldn't find it.