Greg O’Shea has opened up about the “saddest, cruelest death” of Caroline Flack.
The former Love Island presenter was found dead at her home in North London on February 15, after tragically taking her own life.
Limerick native Greg, who appeared on the hit dating show last year, spoke about Caroline’s tragic passing to Lucy Kennedy on Lodging With Lucy – admitting that he believed the 40-year-old was attacked on social media.
In a teaser clip for tonight’s episode of the show, the rugby star tells the host: “It’s one of the saddest, cruelest deaths I’ve ever heard in my life.”
“It was complete just social media attacking her,” he added.
“It’s so upsetting to that she felt she had no one. It all came from just a media attack, and people don’t understand how much their words can hurt.”
In the months before her death, Caroline faced a lot of backlash on social media, after she was arrested for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend Lewis Burton in December 2019.
During an inquest into her death, a coroner ruled that Caroline took her own life just hours after she was told she would face trial for the alleged assault – despite the fact that Lewis didn’t want to press charges.
In Greg’s upcoming episode of Lodging With Lucy, he also recalls his own experience with online trolling – after receiving “very dark” death threats when he split with Love Island star Amber Gill.
“I try and act like I am a big tough man and it didn’t affect me, but it has to,” he told Lucy.
“I was getting death threats, my family were. People messaged me step by step telling me to go kill myself, very dark stuff. Every name under the sun.
“The one that really stuck — ‘You gave birth to a piece of s**t’ — stuff like that to my mother. Are you serious?”
“Even my mates were getting messages,” he added, “My mates would screenshot messages that they got being like, ‘Your friend deserves to get bullets to the head,’ ‘You should stab your mate in the back’.
“To my best friends. That must be really sad for them to get. Tough for them.”
“Social media is a dangerous place but it’s also a great place to connect with people. But it’s killing people.”
Lodging with Lucy airs tonight on Virgin Media One at 9pm.
