Caroline would be so proud her story is helping others...

Mum Christine Flack on her girl's legacy

- SASKIA ROWLANDS

FIVE years after the unimaginable heartbreak of losing her daughter, Christine Flack is channelling her energies into preventing others from suffering the same nightmare.

She told how an anti-suicide bench in Caroline's memory will be a lasting legacy that has already inspired people struggling with mental health to keep fighting when life gets tough.

In a deeply moving interview on the anniversary of the X Factor and Strictly favourite's death, Christine tells how she has been left with a huge hole in her heart after her daughter took her own life at the age of 40.

The 74-year-old said: "At the end, Carrie didn't think there was anything to live for, she felt the world had turned against her.

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"I hope people who read her story will see her life was wasted and may think twice about ending theirs. That's how I want Carrie to be remembered, for inspiring people to live."

Christine last year unveiled the special bench at Tottenham Community Sports Centre in North London, just five miles from where Caroline was born in Enfield.