Kate Garraway has actually revealed that she still wakes up in the the night worrying that she hasn't offered her late hubby Derek Draper his medicine.

The TV speaker and broadcaster, 58, reviewed his end of life care in a candid 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 difficult years remain in her ideas.
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She explained: 'I still wake up in the middle of the night stressing that I have not given him his medication, or that I have actually forgotten to move him every hour to prevent the painful contractions in his limbs.

Kate Garraway has revealed that she still gets up in the the night panicking that she hasn't provided her late partner Derek Draper his medication

The TV speaker and broadcaster, 58, reflected on 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 whole life. You do not resent it, but you suffer since of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'distressing' chest discomforts after suffering extreme tension while other half Derek remained in recovery.

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

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

She has actually openly talked about how she has been entrusted financial obligations in between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after looking after her late hubby Derek.
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As well as dealing with debts related to the ₤ 16,000 a month expenses for his care, a brand-new liquidator's report has exposed the large tax costs that are yet to be paid by Derek's now-defunct psychotherapeutic company Astra Aspera.

Derek died 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 worrying that I have not provided him his medication'

The company, which was collectively controlled by Kate, folded owing hundreds of countless pounds to financial institutions, consisting of a big bill to HMRC.

Kate has actually been hectic promoting her different work jobs as her financial obligations loom over her however it's not the very first time the broadcaster has actually had to handle financial concerns.

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

Fulfill Media Ltd had debts amounting to ₤ 922,807, that included ₤ 88,486 owed to HMRC, ₤ 90,882 to trade lenders, 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 ₤ 24,000 each by the service.

In January 2024, it was reported that Kate might have to offer the home to repay her present debts with one source saying: 'It has actually cost numerous thousands of pounds to take care of Derek and do whatever she might to get him better but it's left her struggling.'

But hard-working Kate has been on a self-promotion blitz amidst her most current financial concerns.

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

She has actually also been teasing her finalizing in perhaps among the most anticipated TV programs of year - Celebrity Traitors.

Together with the similarity Stephen Fry, Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross Kate headed to Scotland a couple of weeks ago to film the spin off of the smash hit BBC series.

Meanwhile, in February she was announced as the host of a new Dubai-set podcast and YouTube series - DXB Unheard.

Each of the 8 episodes, which are launched weekly, function interviews with Emiratis and Dubai residents 'who have left an indelible mark on the city.'

She filmed the series last year and has confessed that she found it 'intriguing' to learn more about how individuals lived their lives at a time when she was contemplating her future plans.

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

Kate Garraway was hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest pains due to stress in the middle of husband Derek Draper's COVID-19 battle: 'I thought I was having a cardiac arrest'

Speaking before her husband's death, Kate said: 'Derek's care costs more than my income from ITV and that is before you spend 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 owe money. I can't make enough cash to cover my debt because I am managing Derek's care and I can't even utilize the money I do need 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 revealed she's turned to withdrawing money 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 exposed one in 5 Brits are getting themselves into financial obligation while moneying private healthcare, she confessed: 'I am doing something similar myself.

'I have actually had to withdraw the bit you can tax free from my pension to spend for belated costs for my husband, who has now died.

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

Addressing the most current HMRC filing, Kate's representative told MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'surprised' TV star 'does not recognise these figures' and is in contact with HMRC to make sure she 'honours what is needed'.

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'excruciating' chest discomforts after suffering extreme stress while spouse Derek was in recovery

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

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

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

'She is in constant contact with HMRC to ensure she honours what's needed from Derek's now defunct business.'

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