Kate Garraway Reviews Caring For Husband Derek Draper

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Kate Garraway has exposed that she still awakens in the the night stressing that she hasn't offered her late other half Derek Draper his medication.

Kate Garraway has exposed that she still wakes up in the the night worrying that she hasn't provided her late other half Derek Draper his medicine.


The TV presenter and broadcaster, 58, assessed his end of life care in a candid brand-new interview on Wednesday.


Derek died at the age of 56 in January 2024 following a four-year fight with long Covid.


Speaking in The Sun, she told of how those tough years remain in her ideas.


She explained: 'I still awaken in the middle of the night stressing that I have not given him his medicine, or that I have actually forgotten to move him every hour to prevent the unpleasant contractions in his limbs.


Kate Garraway has actually exposed that she still awakens in the the night worrying that she hasn't provided her late other half Derek Draper his medicine


The TV speaker and broadcaster, 58, assessed his end of life care in an honest brand-new interview on Wednesday


'The next 2nd I understand he no longer needs that care. There is a moment of relief - that I did not let him down - before a tsunami of sadness hits.


'Caring takes over your entire life. You do not resent it, but you suffer since of it.'


In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'distressing' chest discomforts after suffering severe tension while husband Derek was in healing.


She required medical assistance of her own after being woken by the 2am alarm she sets each night for Good Morning Britain - and finding she could not move to turn it off.


In her book, The Strength Of Love, the presenter described how she then felt a 'searing pain' in her chest and was right away required to the closest A&E for tests.


Kate has been busy handling a busy work schedule, as the true level of her debts are revealed.


She has actually openly talked about how she has been left with debts in between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after looking after her late partner Derek.


In addition to taking on debts connected to the ₤ 16,000 a month expenses for his care, a new liquidator's report has actually exposed the big tax expenses that are yet to be paid by Derek's now-defunct psychotherapeutic company Astra Aspera.


Derek died at the age of 56 in January 2024 following a four-year battle with long Covid (seen in 2007)


She explained: 'I still get up in the middle of the night stressing that I haven't given him his medicine'


The business, which was jointly controlled by Kate, went bust owing hundreds of thousands of pounds to creditors, including a big costs to HMRC.


Kate has actually been hectic promoting her different work projects as her debts tower above her but it's not the very first time the broadcaster has actually had to deal with monetary problems.


In 2012, 2 other companies jointly controlled by Derek and Kate failed.


Fulfill Media Ltd had debts totalling ₤ 922,807, which included ₤ 88,486 owed to HMRC, ₤ 90,882 to trade lenders, and ₤ 462,808 in '3rd party loans'.


At the same time, Countrymouse Media Ltd, was liquidated owing ₤ 189,121, that included ₤ 98,944 to the taxman and ₤ 48,000 on an overdrawn directors loan account. Derek and Kate were both personally owed ₤ 24,000 each by the organization.


In January 2024, it was reported that Kate may need to sell the home to repay her present debts with one source stating: 'It has actually cost numerous countless pounds to look after Derek and do whatever she might to get him better however it's left her having a hard time.'


But hard-working Kate has actually been on a self-promotion blitz amidst her newest financial troubles.


Alongside her routine GMB work, the star plugged her Smooth Radio show this week, exposing she was 'chuffed' that the lunchtime program now reached 2.8 million listeners.


She has also been teasing her signing in maybe among the most expected TV programs of year - Celebrity Traitors.


Together with the likes of Stephen Fry, Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross Kate headed to Scotland a few weeks ago to movie the spin off of the blockbuster BBC series.


Meanwhile, in February she was revealed as the host of a new Dubai-set podcast and YouTube series - DXB Unheard.


Each of the 8 episodes, which are launched weekly, feature interviews with Emiratis and Dubai citizens 'who have actually left an enduring mark on the city.'


She shot the series last year and has actually admitted that she found it 'fascinating' to find out about how people lived their lives at a time when she was pondering her future plans.


Kate formerly revealed that Derek's ₤ 16,000-a-month care expenses eclipsed her GMB wage, confessing in a 2023 interview that she could not even pay for to have the heating on in October.


Kate Garraway was hospitalised with 'excruciating' chest discomforts due to tension amid partner Derek Draper's COVID-19 fight: 'I thought I was having a heart attack'


Speaking before her other half's death, Kate stated: 'Derek's care costs more than my income from ITV and that is before you spend for a mortgage, before you pay any household bills, before you spend for anything for the kids, so we are at a crunch point.


'I owe money. I can't make enough cash to cover my debt since I am managing Derek's care and I can't even utilize the cash I do need to support Derek's recovery, because it's going on the basics all the time.'


In May last year, Kate openly revealed she's turned to withdrawing money from her pension pot to pay the substantial costs throughout a conversation about the NHS and personal care on GMB.


Sharing the outcomes of a study that exposed one in five Brits are getting themselves into debt while funding personal treatment, she confessed: 'I am doing something comparable myself.


'I have actually had to withdraw the bit you can tax totally free from my pension to pay for belated expenses for my other half, who has now died.


'People are having to do things - it wasn't a huge pension in the very first location - which aren't what they saved for.'


Addressing the newest HMRC filing, Kate's representative told MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'shocked' TV star 'doesn't recognise these figures' and is in contact with HMRC to ensure she 'honours what is needed'.


In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest discomforts after suffering severe tension while partner Derek remained in recovery


Their declaration read: 'Kate has actually satisfied all that the liquidators of Derek's company have asked for and more over the past 4 years.


'She does not identify these figures and is stunned that it's being provided in this way by them.


'Taking care of Derek and supporting her family when Derek could no longer run his own services has taken a huge monetary toll on her however she's figured out to put things right.


'She is in continuous contact with HMRC to ensure she honours what's required from Derek's now defunct business.'


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