Kate Garraway Assesses Caring For Husband Derek Draper

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

The TV speaker and broadcaster, 58, reviewed 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 told of how those difficult years stay in her ideas.

She discussed: '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 uncomfortable contractions in his limbs.

Kate Garraway has actually exposed that she still gets up in the the night panicking 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 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 unhappiness hits.

'Caring takes over your whole life. You don't resent it, but you suffer because of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'distressing' chest discomforts after suffering severe stress while husband Derek remained 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 finding she couldn't 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 nearest A&E for tests.

Kate has been busy managing a stressful work schedule, as the real extent of her debts are revealed.

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

Along with tackling debts connected to the ₤ 16,000 a month costs for his care, a brand-new liquidator's report has actually exposed 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 battle with long Covid (seen in 2007)

She discussed: 'I still awaken in the middle of the night stressing that I haven't provided him his medicine'

The business, which was collectively managed by Kate, went bust owing numerous thousands of pounds to creditors, consisting of a large expense to HMRC.

Kate has been busy promoting her different work jobs as her financial obligations tower above her however it's not the very first time the broadcaster has needed to deal with monetary woes.

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

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

At the 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 company.

In January 2024, it was reported that Kate might need to offer the home to repay her current financial obligations with one source stating: 'It has cost hundreds of 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 been on a self-promotion blitz amid her most current financial issues.

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

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

Together with the similarity 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 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 citizens 'who have actually left an indelible mark on the city.'

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

Kate formerly 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 'agonizing' chest pains due to tension amid spouse Derek Draper's COVID-19 fight: 'I believed 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 which is before you spend for a mortgage, before you pay any home expenses, before you pay 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 debt since I am handling Derek's care and I can't even use the money I do need to support Derek's healing, due to the fact that it's going on the essentials all the time.'

In May last year, Kate candidly revealed she's resorted to withdrawing money from her pension pot to pay the substantial expenses during a conversation about the NHS and private care on GMB.

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

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

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

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

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'distressing' chest discomforts after suffering extreme tension while partner Derek was in recovery

Their statement checked out: 'Kate has satisfied all that the liquidators of Derek's company have actually asked for and more over the previous 4 years.

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

'Taking care of Derek and supporting her household when Derek might no longer run his own organizations has actually taken a big financial toll on her however she's figured out to put things right.