Caroline Flack’s ex Danny Cipriani says ‘shame’ killed her as he admits he wanted to take his own life

Caroline Flack's ex boyfriend Danny Cipriani has opened up on the TV star's tragic death in an emotional video.

The 18 minute clip, which he posted on his Instagram feed, sees the 32 year old dressed in a black hoodie as he claimed "embarrassment and shame" killed his ex.

Danny, who dated Caroline, 40, for two months in 2019, also bravely confessed he once tried to take his own life.

Speaking to his 213,000 followers, he said: "Someone that I loved as a person very dearly and someone I’m very close to has decided to take her own life, as everyone knows.

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"I was so vulnerable with her in my moments since we first met and I told her everything about me, because I felt safe with her. I told her all the things I was embarrassed and shameful about. She made me feel okay. And ultimately it was embarrassment and shame that killed her."

In an attempt to battle the same feelings he thinks broke Caroline, Danny went on to tell the darkest moment he's experienced.

He said when he was 22 he was going through "severe depression," and one night he received a call from his manager saying a newspaper was going to try to print a story about him trying to buy a gun.

Offering his side of the story, the rugby union player said: "I met a guy at this nightclub. I knew he was a bad man, or was in the scene, or was trying to make his way doing whatever he was doing."

"I decided at a point that it was time for me to take my own life," he said, tearing up before continuing, "and I tried to buy a gun from him."

But he said he "couldn't do it, because I had some fight left in me," before adding that the paper wasn't legally allowed to print it.

He continued: "That was something that I went through and I have had to carry that. She knew everything about me. The reason why I’m saying this is because embarrassment and shame is not something that should make you do this.

"It’s how we treat people and look after everyone, because everyone has embarrassment and shame to some sort of degree. Whatever it is, we be kind, we try and be gentle."

The star added: "We can’t just blame the media, we can’t blame ourselves, it’s just what has been created. But we can now change what is happening, we can move forward. Her life will not go in vain, and that is why I have to tell this story.

"Some people don’t have the fight in them, some people don’t have the fight for 20 years – she was dealing with this for 20 years."

Danny went on to detail the last phone call he received from the former Love Island star the day before she was found dead in her London apartment on 15 February.

He said: "She decided to call me in her last moments, when she was with her two best friends. How much love and trust she had for me, ’cause we had been vulnerable and shared together, she felt it was a safe space. So I thank her for that, because I felt safe with her."

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Caroline also texted him saying she needed to "plead guilty," something she also told her pal Nicola McLean as she thought it would allow her to see her 27 year old boyfriend Lewis Burton.

Crying, he continued: "I miss her, I’ve written her messages that she’s not going to read because her phone’s not on. It is but she’s not here. I’ve had to voice things to her."

He ended his emotional video by saying he will share a voice message Caroline left him just one week before her death, because "people need to hear it".

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