Caroline Flack’s death from suicide at age 40 shocked the British public and heralded a reckoning with how celebrities, especially women, are treated in the press and on social media.

Five years after her death, a new documentary spearheaded by her mother Christine Flack presents her view that her daughter’s death was due in part to the case’s handling by police and the press.

Here’s what we know.

July 2019

Flack, 39, the BAFTA-winning presenter of Love Island, begins a relationship with ex-tennis player Lewis Burton , 39. The two are spotted together in Soho in between Flack flying out to Majorca to film episodes of the dating show. Burton soon moves into Flack’s house in Islington.

12 December 2019

Caroline Flack died in 2020 (Matt Crossick/PA) PA Archive

Police and ambulanc

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