The family of deceased TV presenter Caroline Flack has released an unpublished message written by the star, as an inquest into her death began on Wednesday.
Flack, the former host of the hit U.K. reality show "Love Island," died by suicide at her northeast London apartment on February 15 as she awaited trial for an alleged assault of her boyfriend. She was 40.
Flack's family said she had been told not to post the message on social media, but they decided to release it via local newspaper Eastern Daily Press.
"So many untruths were out there but this is how she felt and my family and I would like people to read her own words," said Chris Flack, Caroline's mother.
"Carrie was surrounded by love and friends but this was just too much for her."
In the previously unreleased message, Flack denied that she domestically abused her partner, Lewis Burton, and called the incident an "accident."
Flack's lawyer, Paul Morris, said Burton did not support the prosecution, and was a witness, "not a victim," the U.K.'s PA news agency reported at the time of a preliminary hearing in December 2019.
A representative for Burton told CNN they would not be making any comment at this time.
The release of the message from Flack came on the same day as the start of an inquest at Poplar Coroner's Court in London into her death.
Inquests are carried out whenever there is reason to believe that a death was due to something other than natural causes.
