Bloody Photo of Caroline Flack’s Apartment Leaked
On January 1, 2020, The Sun published a photo taken from her apartment on the night of the incident with Lewis. (At the time, Lewis denied that it was his blood in the photos, writing on his Instagram Story, “This blood isn’t mine and I didn’t get hit over the head with a lamp.”)
In the documentary, Caroline’s friends and family maintained the blood depicted in the graphic image was from the TV host’s self-inflicted wounds, with her agent Louise Booth saying that Caroline “reacted terribly” to the leak of the photo “because of the embarrassment.”
However, the newspaper defended the decision to run the picture. “Caroline Flack was a well-known television personality,” a spokesperson for The Sun told producers in a statement, “and while it is now clear that the decision to charge her with an offence was not in the public interest, the reporting of that decision was and attracted significant media coverage.”
The rep continued, “The story was subject to robust pre-publication editorial legal process, and repeated remarks from the court hearing, including a quote from Mr. Burton that Ms. Flack did not hit him with a lamp.”
