The presenter has revealed the financial strains of her husband Derek Draper's care bills meant that she couldn't afford to have the heating on last October.
Kate Garraway has revealed that the financial strains of her husband Derek Draper’s care bills meant she couldn’t afford to have the heating on last October.
The programme documents the emotional and financial struggles that she faced before he died in January aged 56. Despite her fame, she was left bereft and during the show vowed to campaign for change so that others don’t have to suffer as she and her family did. A desperate Kate encouraged her husband of 19 years throughout and on one occasion she had to do so over FaceTime while working on air for her Smooth Radio show.
Derek had been plagued with health woes after contracting the virus in March 2020, which saw him put in a coma, battle sepsis and left with difficulties communicating Reflecting on his final months, she said: ‘After the cardiac arrest, he was still breathing but could only hear so I said to him, “You know me I’m going to fight this all the way but if you can’t fight anymore and what you need now is peace don’t think about us. We’re going to be fine.”‘We had a different kind of love that we had before but it was love and even though it was chaotic and crazy and an absolute slog - in the midst of all that was family.
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