Caroline Flack attempted suicide before she found fame.
Caroline Flack
The TV presenter took her own life last year at the age of 40 and her family have revealed that she always struggled with heartbreak and she previously swallowed pills after a relationship ended.
Caroline's mother Christine, 70, told Channel 4 documentary, 'Caroline Flack: Her Life and Death': "She had a long relationship when she was in Cambridge but that ended and then we got a call, she'd taken some pills, she spent time in hospital and then you could tell it wasn't right, her reaction wasn't right. Yeah, she didn't handle heartbreak well.
"We went through all the doctors and they saw to her and thought no it's just a one off but there was always that fear after then that… I don't know, you always worried in case anything happened."
Caroline's twin sister Jody, 41, added: "It feels so weird talking about it because I know it's something she never wanted anybody to know about.
"Each serious boyfriend, she sort of took a lot of tablets, drank a lot, and ended up in an A&E situation a lot of times. She really didn't think she could cope with that feeling so it was her trying to control it."
Caroline's family said she was ashamed of her mental health struggles and did not want anyone to know about her difficulties.
During a Q&A held by BAFTA for the documentary, Christine said: "She hated the thought of people thinking she was this awful person. Even when she'd taken pills as a young person, she didn't want anyone to know, she didn't want anyone to know she got down and I know they say everyone's talking about it now but I think a lot of people that really suffer with depression still don't talk about it, they don't. I think people are still frightened to say it."
And the late presenter's family just want her to be remembered in a positive light, after accusations that she had attacked her boyfriend Lewis Burton marred her final months.
Christine said: "I wanted to show Carrie in a positive light, I wanted all the last months of the things that were written about her and said about her, her being an abuser, and things like that, they're the things that stuck and got repeated and I just wanted to show she was an ordinary girl, that wasn't her.
"What was shown at the end wasn't her. She wasn't perfect but that wasn't her.
"Everyone was saying you can't say anything yet but I wanted to show a positive side to Caroline and the memory to be of this positive, nice person, and my daughter, and a sister, she never changed and she was good to us and lovely."
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