Danny Cipriani has shared the last WhatsApp messages he sent Caroline Flack before her death.
The Gloucester rugby star revealed the set of exchanges in an emotional post in Instagram on Wednesday morning.
Former Love Island presenter Caroline, 40, was found dead at her home in London on February 15.
A lawyer for her family said it was believed she took her own life.
Last week her death prompted the England rugby player to share a raw video with his followers revealing how he had planned to kill himself while going through severe depression in his 20s.
Now he has published messages to Caroline telling her "[I] want you smiling".
In the set of exchanges, he is seen relying to a message from Caroline asking how he is by writing: "Haha. You look gorgeous in your pic.
"I'm well. Navigating my way through an industry which have never suited me. But...I'm still being great.
"Why you okay? Just want you smiling."
In his caption on the Instagram post, Danny explained the meaning behind Caroline's nickname for him and announced his upcoming break from social media.
He said: "Before i start. This is my grieving process. Which is talking. A lot
"Which my friends and family and teammates have had to take this last 10 days because I’m grieving. And I’m grieving hard. Hence I’m talking a lot. I’m not sure I’d be strong enough if I didn’t understand or see myself in her.
"Pain is pain. It doesn’t matter if you’ve lost a cat. Or been called a name. No ones pain is worse or less. Because it is individual to them and how they take it. So... Black dot. If you judge the first pic you see a black dot. But i didn’t really know what she meant when she called me black dot.
"Until her best friend told me on Sunday last week. ‘She used to call you black dot, now i know, your WhatsApp pic is a black dot’ - so i changed my WhatsApp pic to a black dot about 5 months ago because i felt there were people who had my number who i couldn’t trust.
"Ultimately i would have let them into my life. So ultimately i would have to ask myself why. Anyway. This story is about the beauty she found in a situation i found uncomfortable. ‘I’m just talking to black dot’ she would say. She was kind beyond belief. And she would think i am crazy doing all this.
"But i know she would be proud. I’m taking lent off social media. Thank you all for the kind messages. And all the lovely response. Thank you for the bad response. It’s my story. And i did it for me.
"Then her - she wasn’t allowed to talk to her BF throughout the case because of the law. He wanted the charges dropped. They wanted to pursue. I am not pointing fingers. The CPS and police do a good job. Just saying we can’t always do a good job. This is my grieving process. Our greatest strength is our greatest weakness."
