Kate Garraway Assesses Taking Care Of Husband Derek Draper

Kate Garraway has revealed that she still awakens in the the night panicking that she hasn't provided her late hubby 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 passed away 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 tough years stay in her ideas.

She explained: 'I still get up in the middle of the night panicking that I haven't offered him his medication, or that I have actually forgotten to move him every hour to prevent the unpleasant contractions in his limbs.

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

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

'The next second I realise 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 control of your whole life. You don't resent it, but you suffer due to the fact that of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'distressing' chest pains after suffering extreme stress while husband Derek was in healing.

She needed medical assistance of her own after being woken by the 2am alarm she sets each night for Good Morning Britain - and discovering she could not transfer 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 taken to the nearby A&E for tests.

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

She has actually openly discussed how she has actually been entrusted debts between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after taking care of her late husband Derek.

In addition to tackling debts related to the ₤ 16,000 a month costs for his care, a new liquidator's report has actually revealed the big tax costs that are yet to be paid by Derek's now-defunct psychotherapeutic business 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 wake up in the middle of the night panicking that I haven't offered him his medication'

The business, which was collectively managed by Kate, folded owing hundreds of countless pounds to lenders, including a big costs to HMRC.

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

In 2012, two other firms jointly controlled by Derek and Kate folded.

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

At the exact 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 service.

In January 2024, it was reported that Kate might have to sell the home to repay her current debts with one source stating: 'It has cost numerous countless pounds to look after Derek and do whatever she might to get him much better however it's left her struggling.'

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

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

She has actually also been teasing her finalizing in maybe one of the most expected TV shows of year - Celebrity Traitors.

Together with 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 8 episodes, which are released weekly, feature interviews with Emiratis and Dubai residents '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 find out about how people lived their lives at a time when she was considering her future plans.

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

Kate Garraway was hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest discomforts due to tension amidst other half Derek Draper's COVID-19 fight: 'I thought I was having a cardiovascular disease'

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

'I am in financial obligation. I can't make enough money to cover my financial obligation because I am managing Derek's care and I can't even utilize the cash I do have to support Derek's healing, because it's going on the fundamentals all the time.'

In May in 2015, Kate openly revealed she's resorted to withdrawing money from her pension pot to pay the big costs during a discussion about the NHS and private care on GMB.

Sharing the outcomes of a study that exposed one in 5 Brits are getting themselves into debt while funding private treatment, she admitted: 'I am doing something similar myself.

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

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

Addressing the most recent HMRC filing, Kate's spokesperson informed MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'stunned' TV star 'doesn't identify these figures' and touches with HMRC to make sure she 'honours what is required'.

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest discomforts after suffering severe stress while husband Derek was in healing

Their statement read: 'Kate has fulfilled all that the liquidators of Derek's company have requested and more over the past 4 years.

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

'Caring for Derek and supporting her household when Derek could no longer run his own services has actually taken a huge financial toll on her however she's identified to put things right.