CAROLINE Flack thought quitting Love Island was a good thing, her friend and successor on the show Laura Whitmore has revealed.
The 34-year-old presenter explained that in one of the final times they spoke, her pal said that leaving the ITV2 hit in the wake of an assault charge might help her "work through" her problems.
Speaking on Frankie Bridge's Open Mind podcast, Laura recounted a conversation she had with Caroline two months before she took her own life.
She said: "I've never told anyone this, but one of the last things she told me is that this is probably good that it's happened this way as I have a lot of things I need to deal with and work through." Caroline died on 15 February - while the new winter editon of Love Island was on.