Inside Caroline Flack’s harrowing final months – and why her mother is still fighting for the truth

A new documentary led by the late TV presenter’s mother turns up harrowing revelations surrounding the events leading up to her death, writes Annabel Nugent

Caroline Flack at the Glamour Women Of The Year Awards at Berkeley Square Gardens on June 7, 2016 in London, England. (Photo by Anthony Harvey/Getty Images)

It had been Caroline Flack’s idea to make a documentary about her arrest and the abuse and torment she suffered in the months that followed. A documentary, she thought, could refute the sordid lies that had been spread about her and give her a voice at a time when she had been told to keep quiet. Of course that documentary never happened. Days after raising the idea, Flack died by suicide. She left behind a note in which she spoke of finding harmony.

Five years on, Flack’s mother Christine is now following through on her late daughter’s plans with the release of Caroline Flack: Search for the Truth on Disney Plus. The two-part documentary explores the troubling circumstances surrounding Flack’s case, as Christine lays out evidence to suggest that her daughter – having been arrested and charged for assault – was treated differently by the UK police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). She says they’d been eager to make an example out of her daughter as a celebrity. The series asks how it is possible that a dark but fleeting incident in Flack’s life, which should’ve stopped at a caution, ended instead in her death.