Former “Love Island” star Caroline Flack penned an emotional apology to her family days before taking her own life.
Flack, 40, had intended to publish the message on social media before being talked out of it, according to her family, who released the unpublished post to the Eastern Daily Press Wednesday — just hours before the coroner’s office ruled Flack’s death a suicide.
Flack, facing a court trial for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend, tennis player Lewis Burton, called the incident an “accident” and said she had since lost everything.
“The reason I am talking today is because my family can’t take anymore,” Flack wrote. “I’ve lost my job. My home. My ability to speak. And the truth has been taken out of my hands and used as entertainment.”
“I’m so sorry to my family for what I have brought upon them and for what my friends have had to go through,” she continued
Flack said she had been suffering an ongoing “emotional breakdown.”
“I have always taken responsibility for what happened that night. Even on the night. But the truth is …. It was an accident,” she wrote.
“But I am NOT a domestic abuser. We had an argument and an accident happened. An accident,” she continued.
Flack’s mother, Chris, told the Eastern Daily Press that she felt it important to release the note.
“So many untruths were out there but this is how she felt and my family and I would like people to read her own words,” Chris Flack said.
“Carrie was surrounded by love and friends,” she added, “but this was just too much for her.”