Celebrity hairstylist Lou Teasdale has devastatingly reflected on the day her best friend Caroline Flack died as she was the last person to see the TV presenter alive
Caroline Flack’s best friend Lou Teasdale has heartbreakingly opened up on the day she died as she tried to be by her side. The Love Island host died by suicide on February 15 2020 aged 40.
Following Caroline’s tragic death, here mum Christine has questioned why her pals Lou and Mollie Grosberg left her alone in her flat on the night she took her own life. Her death came just a day after they raised concerns about the TV star’s welfare following a suicide attempt previously.
Mollie previously said she would ‘never get over’ what happened, as Lou candidly shared her side of the story in a new interview. The celebrity hair stylist, who is mum to daughter Lux, was the last person to see Caroline alive.
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Recalling her final moments with the TV star, Lou shared: “The night before, she had attempted. So, the paramedics had sort of given a big talk to get her through the night.
“I always felt that I needed to get her through the night then I would go home to my daughter and she’d be alright in the day. I was never that worried in the daytime. I was too panicky in the night to leave her.”
Speaking of the day Caroline died, Lou added: “That morning, I was with another one of our friends, she wasn’t in a good way but we left her. We went home.
“My parents had come, with my sister and her kids, and they were like ‘come on have a day with the kids because you have got your own life, she is not going to do anything’. I know with suicide, people often call their bluff.
“‘If she wanted to, she would do it but she’s not’. Caroline’s sister was going to come and see her so that was all planned.” Lou headed out with her family and daughter but was contacted by Caroline’s sister Jody.
“When her sister couldn’t get in the flat, I got panicky again and I couldn’t stay away,” Lou explained. “I didn’t think she had actually done it. I was worried that she had and that her sister was there on her own.
“In the end, my dad said ‘come on we will go and see if she’s alright but you are coming back here with the kids’. In that time, was when she actually did it.”
Lou shared how the door to Caroline’s flat was locked and that they needed to call the landlord to be able to be let in. While on Paul C Brunson’s We Need to Talk podcast, he asked what the first thought that came to Lou’s mind was.
She likened it to a horror movie and devastatingly shared: “It’s like something heavy is chasing you, it’s really hard to explain it. It was an out of body experience really.
“I was just screaming, panicking and I was glad my dad was there to deal with what needed to be dealing with. And trying to comfort her sister who was with us.”
When asked if she has been able to “properly grieve” Caroline, Lou admitted: “No because I think suicide is a really hard death for people to grieve because it is filled with so many emotions.”
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