Caroline Flack documentary

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Is anyone watching the new Caroline Flack documentary on Disney plus.

Her mother is trying to stand up for her. Its very sad. And interesting . Her mother looked up a lot of information about the assualt case.

It was a night where both of them were very drunk. Caroline found texts from another woman on her partner's phone. She hit him with the phone on his head to wake him up. She shouldn't have done that.

I am just recounting the facts of what happened

Caroline's partner threatened to ring the police. He rang the police and said he wasn't sure what he had been hit with, maybe a lamp or something. (He later agreed that it was a phone).

After he rang the police, Caroline was so distraught that she cut her wrists.

Her mother said that media reported that the room looked like a horror movie. But they made it seem like the blood was her partners. The blood was Carolines.

Her partner was not injured. And he did not want to press charges.

In the documentary it shows that the police initiallly decided not to press charges on Caroline.
Due to
Her having no previous history of violence
Her partner was not injured
Her partner did not want to press charges.

They decided to give Caroline a caution.

However a Detective came on duty later that night and decided to overturn the decision. She decided to charge Caroline with assault.

The documentary also shows notes the police made. They refer a lot to Caroline as a celebrity and a high profile case. Her mother thinks Caroline was charged unfairly as the police had attention on them over this case.

It then shows Carolines texts to friends . She writes "I have lost it all. I don't see any way out".

Its very sad. Has anyone watched it

Caroline threw a phone at his head whilst he was sleeping - hard enough to cause a mark and a little blood. How is that not DV? It is violence in a domestic setting and relationship. There were no extenuating circumstances - Caroline wasn’t defending herself against him. He was asleep.

Interesting that Christine didn’t confirm whether there were actual messages on his phone proving that he was cheating only that Caroline thought that. Because you can bet if there was hard evidence Christine would have mentioned it a lot in her documentaries and interviews.

I understand the mother’s grief but I am not sure about what she hopes to achieve. The whole night that kickstarted the tragedy was a sorry mess but it was right that Caroline lost her job as a result of hitting the boyfriend. The whole event harmed the Love Island brand. A mentally ill person like Caroline should probably have steered clear of alcohol as it l seems that played a big part in what happened that night.

The pile-on she experienced was inevitable as people only had the evidence they were presented with to go by. It is awful that things like that happen but they do. The press behave like pigs but she and her boyfriend knew that.

Her other ex sold his story exacerbating the situation. Show business is dirty business full of greedy predatory narcissists. But she knew that. If you are in the public eye you have to watch your behaviour.

I feel for her I really do. She should not have died but I’m not sure that any one is to blame. It was a night that got out of hand.

Imagine being woken up
by someone apparently hitting you. It would be terrifying. And her saying she didn’t realise she had the phone in her hand.

Its interesting that many posters on here have painted her quite sympathetically due to her having had, apparently, MH issues from childhood

Firstly a lot of children who work with CAMHS or who are referred to CAMHS for similar issues are termed 'behavioural' meaning there isnt a MH issues or disorder as such but a person has learned to manage their feelings or communication by acting in a particular way, ie threatening suicide or self harm or being violent.

Theres another thread running at the moment about a murderer in the US, who also had MH issues from childhood, in that their behaviour was disordered, odd from an early age. I dont see much sympathy there

In addition when we discuss male perpetrators who very often have a history of disorder as a child, either by way of ND or MH or LD, we also dont have sympathy.

Why is it different for this person who by all accounts was just generally quite unpleasant?

Ok so I’ve now watched it. I think her mum minimises her actions and talks quite nastily about the boyfriend. Expecting a full page apology? That never happens. She has 3 other children who must be fed up of her carrying on looking for someone to blame.

I also think it’s poor of her mum to say a doctor once told her she was bipolar/manic depressive when she was younger but she didn’t want to know. Mental health may have contributed to her taking her own life, but she seemed to be using it as an excuse for why Caroline hit her boyfriend in the first place.