Kate Garraway Reflects on Taking Care Of Husband Derek Draper

Kate Garraway has actually revealed that she still gets up in the the night worrying that she hasn't offered her late partner Derek Draper his medication.

The TV speaker 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 battle with long Covid.

Speaking in The Sun, she informed of how those hard years remain in her ideas.

She described: 'I still wake up in the middle of the night worrying that I have not offered him his medicine, 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 husband Derek Draper his medication

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 needs that care. There is a moment of relief - that I did not let him down - before a tsunami of unhappiness hits.

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

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

She required medical support of her own after being woken by the 2am alarm she sets each night for Good Morning Britain - and discovering she couldn't transfer to turn it off.

In her book, The Strength Of Love, the speaker described how she then felt a 'searing pain' in her chest and was instantly taken to the nearest A&E for tests.

Kate has been hectic juggling a chaotic work schedule, as the real degree of her debts are exposed.

She has honestly gone over how she has actually been entrusted to financial obligations between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after looking after her late partner Derek.

Along with taking on financial obligations connected 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 company Astra Aspera.

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

She discussed: 'I still wake up in the middle of the night panicking that I have not provided him his medicine'

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

Kate has actually been busy promoting her various work tasks as her debts loom over her however it's not the first time the broadcaster has actually had to deal with financial troubles.

In 2012, 2 other companies collectively managed 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 lenders, and ₤ 462,808 in '3rd celebration loans'.

At the very 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 sell the home to repay her current financial obligations with one source saying: 'It has cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to care for Derek and do whatever she might to get him much better but it's left her having a hard time.'

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

Alongside her regular GMB work, the star plugged her Smooth Radio reveal today, exposing she was 'chuffed' that the lunchtime program now reached 2.8 million listeners.

She has actually likewise been teasing her finalizing in possibly one of the most awaited 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 smash hit 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 released weekly, feature interviews with Emiratis and Dubai locals 'who have left an indelible mark on the city.'

She filmed the series last year and has admitted that she discovered it 'interesting' to find out about how people lived their lives at a time when she was contemplating her future strategies.

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

Kate Garraway was hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest pains due to stress amid partner Derek Draper's COVID-19 battle: 'I thought I was having a cardiovascular disease'

Speaking before her partner's death, Kate stated: 'Derek's care expenses more than my salary from ITV which is before you spend for a mortgage, before you pay any home expenses, 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 due to the fact that I am handling Derek's care and I can't even utilize the cash I do have to support Derek's healing, due to the fact that it's going on the fundamentals all the time.'

In May in 2015, Kate openly exposed she's turned to withdrawing money from her pension pot to pay the huge expenses throughout a discussion about the NHS and personal care on GMB.

Sharing the results of a study that exposed one in five Brits are getting themselves into debt while moneying personal medical care, she confessed: 'I am doing something similar myself.

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

'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 recent HMRC filing, Kate's spokesperson told MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'stunned' TV star 'does not identify these figures' and touches with HMRC to ensure she 'honours what is needed'.

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'distressing' chest pains after suffering severe stress while hubby Derek was in recovery

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

'She does not acknowledge these figures and is shocked that it's existing in this method by them.

'Taking care of Derek and supporting her family when Derek might no longer run his own businesses has taken a substantial monetary toll on her but she's figured out to put things right.