Caroline Flack’s mother has said Phillip Schofield is “realising even more” what her daughter went through before her death. Christine Flack said she hoped the former ITV presenter had “done the right thing” by admitting to his secret affair with a younger male colleague and that the matter would be settled.
Love Island host Flack was found dead in February 2020 at the age of 40, and a coroner later ruled she killed herself after learning that prosecutors were going to press ahead with an assault charge after an incident involving her boyfriend Lewis Burton. Speaking to the BBC’s Newsnight, her mother said Schofield and his former lover were going through an “awful time” and urged them not to do “anything silly”.
During an interview with the BBC’s media editor Amol Rajan on Friday, Schofield said he understood how Flack had felt, saying: “If my daughters hadn’t been there then I wouldn’t be here.” Ms Flack said: “He knew Caroline and I must say, when she died he was very upset.
