Kate Garraway Assesses Taking Care Of Husband Derek Draper

Kate Garraway has exposed that she still awakens in the the night panicking that she hasn't provided her late husband Derek Draper his medication.

The TV presenter and broadcaster, 58, reviewed 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 battle with long Covid.

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

She explained: 'I still get up in the middle of the night stressing that I haven't given him his medication, or that I have forgotten to move him every hour to avoid the agonizing contractions in his limbs.

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

The TV presenter and broadcaster, 58, reviewed his end of life care in an honest 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 unhappiness hits.

'Caring takes over your entire life. You do not resent it, but you suffer due to the fact that of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest discomforts after suffering severe stress while husband Derek remained in recovery.

She needed medical support of her own after being woken by the 2am alarm she sets each night for Good Morning Britain - and discovering 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 immediately required to the nearby A&E for tests.

Kate has actually been busy managing a hectic work schedule, as the real extent of her financial obligations are exposed.

She has honestly discussed how she has been left with financial obligations in between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after caring for her late other half Derek.

Along with dealing with financial obligations associated with the ₤ 16,000 a month costs for his care, a brand-new liquidator's report has actually exposed the large tax costs that are yet to be paid by Derek's now-defunct psychotherapeutic business Astra Aspera.

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

She described: 'I still wake up in the middle of the night panicking that I haven't given him his medication'

The business, which was jointly controlled by Kate, folded owing hundreds of thousands of pounds to lenders, consisting of a large bill to HMRC.

Kate has been busy promoting her different work jobs as her financial obligations loom over her however it's not the very first time the broadcaster has actually needed to deal with financial problems.

In 2012, two other companies jointly controlled by Derek and Kate went bust.

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

At the very same time, Countrymouse Media Ltd, was liquidated owing ₤ 189,121, which consisted of ₤ 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 might have to offer the home to repay her existing debts with one source saying: 'It has cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to look after Derek and do everything she could to get him better but it's left her struggling.'

But hard-working Kate has actually been on a self-promotion blitz in the middle of her most current monetary troubles.

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

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

In addition to the similarity 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 eight episodes, which are launched weekly, feature interviews with Emiratis and Dubai locals 'who have actually left an indelible mark on the city.'

She shot the series in 2015 and has admitted that she discovered it 'fascinating' to discover how people lived their lives at a time when she was pondering her future plans.

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

Kate Garraway was hospitalised with 'excruciating' chest pains due to stress amidst partner Derek Draper's COVID-19 fight: 'I thought I was having a cardiac arrest'

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

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

In May in 2015, Kate candidly revealed she's resorted to withdrawing cash from her pension pot to pay the substantial costs throughout a conversation about the NHS and private care on GMB.

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

'I have needed to withdraw the bit you can tax totally free from my pension to pay for belated bills for my husband, 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 most current HMRC filing, Kate's representative informed MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'stunned' TV star 'doesn't acknowledge these figures' and touches with HMRC to ensure she 'honours what is required'.

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'distressing' chest discomforts after suffering severe stress while partner Derek remained in healing

Their statement read: 'Kate has actually satisfied all that the liquidators of Derek's business have actually 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 method by them.

'Taking care of Derek and supporting her household when Derek could no longer run his own organizations has taken a big financial toll on her but she's identified to put things right.