1 Kate Garraway Reflects on Taking Care Of Husband Derek Draper
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Kate Garraway has exposed that she still wakes up in the the night worrying that she hasn't provided her late hubby Derek Draper his medication.

The TV speaker and broadcaster, 58, shown on his end of life care in a candid brand-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 hard years remain in her ideas.

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

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

The TV presenter and broadcaster, 58, assessed his end of life care in an honest brand-new interview on Wednesday

'The next 2nd I realise 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 since of it.'

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

She required medical assistance 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 presenter described how she then felt a 'searing pain' in her chest and was right away required to the nearby A&E for tests.

Kate has actually been busy handling a chaotic work schedule, as the true extent of her debts are exposed.

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

As well as 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 business 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 described: 'I still wake up in the middle of the night worrying that I have not offered him his medication'

The business, which was collectively controlled by Kate, folded owing numerous countless pounds to lenders, including a large costs to HMRC.

Kate has been busy promoting her various work projects as her debts loom over her however it's not the very first time the has actually had to deal with monetary issues.

In 2012, two other companies collectively controlled 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 financial institutions, and ₤ 462,808 in '3rd party loans'.

At the very same time, Countrymouse Media Ltd, was liquidated owing ₤ 189,121, that 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 business.

In January 2024, it was reported that Kate may have to sell the home to repay her existing debts with one source stating: 'It has actually cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to care for Derek and do whatever she could to get him better but it's left her struggling.'

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

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

She has also been teasing her finalizing in perhaps one of the most awaited TV programs of year - Celebrity Traitors.

Along 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 brand-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 enduring mark on the city.'

She shot the series last year and has actually confessed that she discovered it 'interesting' to discover how individuals lived their lives at a time when she was pondering her future plans.

Kate previously revealed that Derek's ₤ 16,000-a-month care costs eclipsed her GMB wage, confessing in a 2023 interview that she couldn't even pay for to have the heating on in October.

Kate Garraway was hospitalised with 'distressing' chest pains due to stress amid spouse Derek Draper's COVID-19 battle: 'I believed I was having a cardiac arrest'

Speaking before her hubby's death, Kate said: 'Derek's care costs more than my salary from ITV and that is before you pay 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 adequate money to cover my debt since I am handling Derek's care and I can't even utilize the cash I do need to support Derek's recovery, due to the fact that it's going on the fundamentals all the time.'

In May last year, Kate candidly exposed she's resorted to withdrawing cash from her pension pot to pay the substantial costs throughout a discussion about the NHS and personal care on GMB.

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

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

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

Addressing the most recent HMRC filing, Kate's spokesperson told MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'shocked' TV star 'does not acknowledge 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 discomforts after suffering extreme stress while husband Derek was in recovery

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

'She doesn't identify these figures and is shocked that it's being presented in this way by them.

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

'She is in continuous contact with HMRC to make certain she honours what's required from Derek's now defunct company.'

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