Nicola McLean says Caroline Flack was "absolutely terrified"

I mean, this last week has been very painful for you because you were friends with Caroline Flack and you can't escape that, right? Because everyone is talking about her death and I think a lot of people are deeply affected by it, but how are you? Yeah, I mean, I'm with everyone else deeply affected. You are a companion, in fact, you were. I think you were texting her not long before she took her own life. Why were you only talking friendly things? or were you worried about her what was going on and now I think everyone who M was friends with Caroline was definitely worried about her so yeah I was one of them I was worried about her and I did what we would all do and I reached out to her. her where we were, we were always chatting anyway and checking to see if she was okay and obviously she wasn't, and she and she actually told people from time to time that she was struggling, but it seems like even though she clearly had a lot of problems going on. and the pressure of being as famous as her and the social media trolling and everything else, what really seemed to be getting to her the last few days was the upcoming trial.

Yes, did she say anything else about it? You I mean obviously yes, obviously I'm not going to say it and what we talked about privately because I wouldn't have done it and if she was still with us and I won't do it now, she won't, but what I will say. it's that people are focusing on the troll and I understand why and that needs to stop, it's

absolutely

horrible, but it was also the media and it was the fact that they were relentless and you know, this clickbait society that we live in online. newspapers just want to constantly update their sites and they need this constant need for more clicks, more clicks, more clicks and their clickbait is totally wrong but it makes you click on them and it's so harmful that the problem was the media , as well as obviously many other things yes, she was

absolutely

terrified

of the trial and who wouldn't have been and it was so wrong to be judged.

I mean, I didn't realize she was going to say all this, but it's just from the heart. It was like that, it's so horrible that she was tried by the public and goodbye everyone, even before she was tried, the brilliance of the judge, you know, everyone found her guilty before they found her guilty and she wouldn't have been found guilty , That's how it went. so it was so bad and so unfair and there are so many people, I mean, blaming is the worst and especially in a time like this, so you know, I didn't realize that, well, no, that's what I'm wondering. , I mean.

It is appropriate to play the blame game and look for someone to blame at this time. Well, I don't think that's appropriate, but what I do think is that we need to have a solution because Caroline was too fast and we don't know. I want someone else to do the same thing, so let's not just continue to focus on the trolls because that's a big part of what people have to deal with, but let's also focus on the media and you know who sold the photos of you. from her bedroom, you know, let's say why they were printed, it was in the public interest, no, it wasn't at all, if Caroline were found guilty, which she never will and never would have, then maybe it would have been public . interest, but first, she should have been in South Africa present on Love Island and we would have had an absolutely different result.

I wonder what you think because I was very surprised by the images that were printed before she heard the images. of the crime scene I haven't seen those photos, but I think questions have to be asked about the role of the CPS here, what kind of prosecutor, what interest did she have in bringing this case when her boyfriend clearly didn't want to press charges and the courts didn't even They would allow you to have any contact with him. I've never heard of it, no particular me was when he obviously wanted to have contact with her, so I think yeah, we can all give the tabloid a try. media, that's what will inevitably happen in these situations, but I think there are legitimate questions to ask why this case was brought in the first place.

I clearly said a lot of yes, so I think it came out, I think a few days before her. took her life that there was going to be some kind of video that was going to be played and I don't know Caroline Flack, she would have a problem, but I mean, that would have added exactly yeah, I mean, and any of the experts that we've spoken in recent days they say that if someone takes their life it is usually multifactorial. There are so many reasons why it's never easy, but it was clearly one of the added pressures.

I know you are very worried. Regarding the pressures of social media in particular, I also believe that we as a society must take responsibility for our actions. I mean, all these newspapers, magazines and online sites are being fueled by our desire to gossip. Do you know who is doing what? Who is sleeping? with who, who leaves, who, who, we all need to look at ourselves too and resolve this desire into this need to constantly try to revel in other people's misfortune, that's something you think we do or I think you do. If you go to any newspaper, any news agent, you look at the bank of magazines that are out there that are still being sold and sold because people are buying them, you know, if they didn't buy them, they would go out of business. many magazines that end up closing due to lack of readers, so all of these online would not just be the ones that are online, but all the ones you see.

I'm trying to think of names for some of them, but I'm talking about you. I say that, but I'm sure that the three of you value the number of people who follow you on your Twitter or Instagram account and that's part of what you do differently, totally different, but it's attractive, it's playing that game absolutely, yes, but can you know that you can play a game fairly? You do not know? They troll me. The last time I did this show, GID turned on my Twitter because I can't stand it. You're fat, you're old, you're ugly. Silly, I can't stand this every time I appear on TV or put up a photo to get shot down, my confidence gets shaken and if I'm not strong enough to deal with it that day I won't look, but maybe I'll be strong.

Enough in a long document, you know, I have Twitter and I have Instagram so they don't abuse it. I got it because that's the social thing that's also part of your job, that's our job, but I'm not going to go on Twitter and find Joe Bloggs, who I don't know and I'm constantly nasty to them. You know it's unfair when people say just don't look. You know, I don't watch because I can't take it anymore, but some people aren't as strong as me. and we need to have it, but this is not just Caroline

says

, I think social media wasn't the most important part, but I think you all know that we need to have better rules and regulations, we need to be responsible, you shouldn't. be able to set up a Twitter account with you know an egg there you shouldn't if you're going to be brave enough to call me these things to call my family these things not just me I'm just talking because I'm talking personally so be responsible for let me know who you are yes let me know what you are because you wouldn't walk up to me on the street and tell me this, you absolutely would not have done this job since I was 15 and now I'm almost 40 and not a single person has come up to me me on the street, instead, no, I dare you to do.

Yesterday we heard a remarkable story of a woman who was walking home through the floods and the rain and the only wind and everything where she lives and she stopped a car to help her and the person who picked her up was her local MP and she said: always I've badmouthed that particular woman on social media and it turned out to be really nice, say why you had to be a bad mother in the first place, but it just goes to show that it's so easy to do and it's so instantaneous that people often don't think and sometimes I say oh and and then, of course, sometimes not all, but sometimes they say oh, I didn't mean you, yeah, well, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, social media is good, it's an interesting point because my oldest daughter just turned 11 and and Willow is very interested in letting you know everything she has planned and the Instagram anyway and I was trying to explain it to her the other day and I was like saying imagine if you and your best friend posted the same photo and you your best friend got a hundred likes and you only got ten likes and while I was posting that photo someone said that you look very ugly in that dress.

I told him how that would make you feel and you can see it because right now he's not going to come in, but I think as human beings we all want affirmation, you know, we all want people to like us and yet there's so much family, it's an apartment. huge, well, it will go ahead for the moment, let me tell you that if you are affected by the discussions that we have been having particularly about Caroline or anything you can call the Samaritans by the way one one six one two three one one six one two three four the Samaritans or visit ins visit Samaritans org I think it's important to say