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Danny Cipriani has posted an emotional tribute to his ex girlfriend Caroline Flack, and says the TV presenter was killed by embarrassment and shame.
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The data briefly last year and the rugby star said he shared many intimate issues with Flag as she made him feel safe In a video posted on Instagram where he discussed his own mental health problems.
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Cipriani said he'd been in regular contact with flak over the last 3 to 4 months and she tried to contact him in the hours before her death.
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So someone that I loved is a person very dealing.
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Someone very close to has decided to take her own life that everyone knows on DDE.
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I've been speaking to her for the last 34 months.
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We've always been in contact since we were together, since we weren't and it's we've been a loving friendship on DDE.
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I was so vulnerable with her in my moment when we first met and I told her everything about me because I felt safe with her.
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I told a lot of things.
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I was embarrassed in shame, shame, shameful about She made me feel okay and ultimately it was embarrassment and shame that killed her.
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We had spoken about how things had to change.
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I didn't know it was going to take this.
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Our correspondent, Inzamam Rashid is here a very emotional Danny Cipriani.
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They're talking about the death of Caroline Flack, his his ex girlfriend and close friend.
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Still up until the point of her death, when she had tried to contact him just a matter of hours before.
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Yeah, that's right.
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Look, this was a very raw, emotional 18 minute video that he posted on Instagram earlier today and clearly unscripted.
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He went on talking about his relationship with Caroline Flack, and it was a short relationship that they had.
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But their friendship continued right up until the point of her death last Saturday.
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And he also spoke about his past mental health struggles on Dhe.
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How he had to look in the face off, potentially attempting suicide at one point as well.
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Sara, This was a video post on his INSTAGRAM account.
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He's got over 200,000 followers.
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Andi.
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He revealed that he had been speaking to Caroline Flack for the past three or four months, and she actually tried to contact Danny Cipriani last Friday night, just hours before she actually took her own life.
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Now he said that he felt incredibly safe, sharing everything with Caroline Flack.
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He claimed that it was ultimately embarrassment and shame that led to her killing herself.
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Now he said that he couldn't take a call from her because he was playing rugby.
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On that she left him a voice message as well.
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And he also said that he, Caroline Flack, actually left him.
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Ah, voice no, just a couple of weeks ago.
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And he said that he would release that voice note s so that everyone can hear the struggles that she was going through now.
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He described Caroline Flack as someone who was so kind, so beautiful.
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She never was malicious on that.
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She actually contacted him on Friday night, but he couldn't get in touch with her because he was busy playing rugby.
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Now he goes back to his time off sugaring through mental health and talks a bit about how now there needs to be more kindness in the world that he wasn't putting all the blame on media, as there has been a lot of speculation.
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He wasn't putting all the blame on the CPS.
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There's been speculation around how they've handled a case of Caroline Flack as well.
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He was just saying to people that we need to be more kind and those with some of the words of Caroline Flack.
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One of her last instagram post before she killed herself was talking about kindness and how there needs to be more kindness in this world.
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Now we know that they were in a very short relationship, but obviously their friendship has clearly continued, and they've had back and forth discussions right up until her death on Saturday.
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But I'm sure we'll hear Maur from what he has hard.
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The relationship he has hard with Caroline Flack and especially those last few days before she died.
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The contact that she had with her ex boyfriend, Danny Cipriani, was obviously come out with this extremely raw and quite emotional video on Instagram today and say thank you on if you need to talk about how you're feeling.
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Thesame Arat ins are there to talk at any time.
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They promised to listen in confidence and without judgment.
