‘I tried so hard to reassure Caroline but I couldn’t save her’ Caroline reached out to Kerry Katona just weeks before she died, asking for help. Here, Kerry recalls how she tried to reassure her and the pain she feels at not being able to save her
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ike everyone, I am truly Fathers4Justice had made her “sink heartbroken that Caroline so deep”, my stomach dropped. I Flack has passed away at just read her messages with a heavy 40 years old. And what made heart and reassured her all I could. her sudden death even more I told her she would get gut-wrenching for me was through it, to stay strong the fact that she contacted and begged her not to me in December, just six let them win. She was weeks before she took distraught that they her life, asking for had publicly lambasted my advice about the her and called her an disgusting online bullying “abuser”, and I know how Kerry was in tears she was experiencing. she felt in that moment. as she spoke out I totally understand why When I was being trolled Caroline came to me – I’ve been following the death of my husband where she was, feeling so down and so George Kay, who had been abusive lost that suicide felt like the only option. to me, I felt worthless. I told my mum And despite me trying so very hard to that my kids would be better off without reassure her of how strong she was me because the words of the bullies and how the awful trolls were nothing had got to me. I was lucky enough to but bullies, I couldn’t save her. come through it – Caroline was not. When she contacted me that day in I tried, I really, really did. And I was December, saying the trolling she’d very careful with what I replied to her experienced at the hands of in those messages. I wanted to tell her
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