Laura Whitmore shares last messages from Caroline Flack on fifth anniversary of loss of life

TV presenter Laura Whitmore has revealed the ultimate messages between her and Caroline Flack on the fifth anniversary of her loss of life.

Flack, who had hosted Love Island and The X Issue, took her personal life on 15 February 2020, aged 40.

In an Instagram submit on Saturday, Whitmore posted screenshots of exchanges between the pair, by which she informed Flack she had simply been supplied a job presenting Love Island.

Flack responded that she was “glad” she’d landed the function, and stated she was “actually trying ahead to watching the present”.

She added that it was “excellent” that Whitmore could be on the ITV collection together with her husband Iain Stirling, who narrates it, earlier than posting a string of affection hearts.

Flack hosted the truth courting present between 2015 and 2019, with Whitmore taking on presenting duties in 2020 earlier than leaving in 2022.

Whitmore stated she’d discovered the outdated messages earlier this month, when she obtained a brand new telephone and was attempting to obtain WhatsApp messages from the cloud.

“It actually hit me exhausting,” she wrote.

“Taking a look at messages I’ve by no means publicly shared as they have been non-public messages. Media retailers wrote rather a lot removed from the precise fact.

“I feel they present a aspect to Caroline which is sweet to recollect. Therefore I am sharing now.”

Whitmore, who stated she first met Flack when she took over from her internet hosting I am a Celeb’s spin-off present on ITV2 in 2011, stated she would all the time be “so grateful” for the final messages she exchanged with Flack.

“Each time I have been requested to discuss the state of affairs or be a part of a documentary I decline,” she wrote.

“I’ve already stated all I can say on the tragedy and don’t desire phrases to be misconstrued and have to take care of my very own psychological well being.

“This was the final correspondence I ever had together with her,” she stated, including: “The final message from her to me have been love hearts.”

Within the textual content message alternate, Whitmore tells Flack: “Hope you are someplace pretty and see you quickly.”

Referring again to that in her submit on Saturday, Whitmore wrote: “I might wish to suppose wherever she is now, she’s at peace and someplace pretty like I hoped.”

She additionally stated that she was saddened to see the press and social media being “so divisive”, including: “We nonetheless have not discovered from Caroline’s remedy earlier than her loss of life in the case of ladies within the highlight.”

In August 2020, a coroner dominated that Flack had taken her personal life whereas she was dealing with trial accused of assaulting her boyfriend.

The inquest heard sections of the media had been “hounding” the presenter over the alleged assault of Lewis Burton, which she denied.

The coroner stated that Flack’s psychological well being had deteriorated following her arrest.

The mom of the late TV presenter might be exploring the ultimate months of her daughter’s life in a brand new documentary.

Within the movie, referred to as Caroline, Christine Flack will mirror on the occasions main as much as her loss of life, and her daughter’s profession.

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