Kate Garraway Reflects on Caring For Husband Derek Draper

Kate Garraway has exposed that she still wakes up in the the night worrying that she hasn't given her late spouse Derek Draper his medication.

The TV presenter and broadcaster, 58, reflected on his end of life care in an honest 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 informed of how those hard years stay in her ideas.

She described: 'I still get up in the middle of the night worrying that I have not provided him his medicine, or that I have forgotten to move him every hour to avoid the unpleasant contractions in his limbs.

Kate Garraway has revealed that she still wakes up in the the night worrying that she hasn't provided her late husband Derek Draper his medication

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

'The next second I understand he no longer requires that care. There is a minute of relief - that I did not let him down - before a tsunami of sadness hits.

'Caring takes over your whole life. You do not begrudge it, however you suffer since of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'excruciating' chest pains after suffering severe stress while husband Derek was in recovery.

She needed medical help 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 speaker described how she then felt a 'searing discomfort' in her chest and was right away required to the closest A&E for tests.

Kate has been hectic managing a hectic work schedule, as the true degree of her debts are revealed.

She has actually openly talked about how she has actually been left with financial obligations between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after taking care of her late husband Derek.

Along with tackling financial obligations related to the ₤ 16,000 a month costs for his care, a brand-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 fight with long Covid (seen in 2007)

She discussed: 'I still get up in the middle of the night worrying that I have not offered him his medicine'

The company, which was collectively controlled by Kate, went bust owing hundreds of thousands of pounds to lenders, including a large expense to HMRC.

Kate has actually been busy promoting her different work tasks as her debts loom over her but it's not the first time the broadcaster has needed to deal with financial problems.

In 2012, two other companies collectively managed by Derek and Kate folded.

Fulfill Media Ltd had financial obligations amounting to ₤ 922,807, which consisted of ₤ 88,486 owed to HMRC, ₤ 90,882 to trade creditors, and ₤ 462,808 in '3rd party loans'.

At the same time, Countrymouse Media Ltd, was liquidated owing ₤ 189,121, which 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 company.

In January 2024, it was reported that Kate might have to offer the home to repay her current financial obligations with one source stating: 'It has cost numerous countless pounds to look after Derek and do everything she might to get him better but it's left her having a hard time.'

But hard-working Kate has actually been on a self-promotion blitz amid her most current monetary concerns.

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

She has actually also been teasing her finalizing in possibly one of the most anticipated TV shows 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 film the spin off of the smash hit BBC series.

Meanwhile, in February she was announced 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 locals 'who have left an indelible mark on the city.'

She filmed the series in 2015 and has actually confessed that she found it 'intriguing' to discover how individuals lived their lives at a time when she was considering her future plans.

Kate previously revealed that Derek's ₤ 16,000-a-month care expenses eclipsed her GMB income, admitting in a 2023 interview that she couldn't even afford to have the heating on in October.

Kate Garraway was hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest pains due to stress in the middle of other half Derek Draper's COVID-19 fight: 'I thought I was having a cardiac arrest'

Speaking before her other half's death, Kate said: 'Derek's care costs more than my salary from ITV which is before you spend for a mortgage, before you pay any family expenses, before you pay for anything for the kids, so we are at a crunch point.

'I owe money. I can't earn enough cash to cover my financial obligation because I am managing Derek's care and I can't even use the cash I do have to support Derek's recovery, since it's going on the fundamentals all the time.'

In May last year, Kate openly revealed she's resorted to withdrawing cash from her pension pot to pay the big bills throughout a discussion about the NHS and personal care on GMB.

Sharing the outcomes of a survey that exposed one in 5 Brits are getting themselves into debt while funding private healthcare, she confessed: 'I am doing something comparable myself.

'I have actually had to withdraw the bit you can tax free from my pension to pay for belated expenses for my husband, who has actually now passed away.

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

Addressing the current HMRC filing, Kate's spokesperson informed MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'surprised' TV star 'does not recognise these figures' and is in contact with HMRC to make certain she 'honours what is needed'.

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'excruciating' chest pains after suffering severe tension while husband Derek remained in healing

Their statement checked out: 'Kate has fulfilled all that the liquidators of Derek's business have actually requested and more over the past 4 years.

'She doesn't recognise these figures and is stunned that it's existing in this way by them.

'Caring for Derek and supporting her family when Derek might no longer run his own businesses has taken a huge financial toll on her but she's identified to put things right.