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

The TV presenter and broadcaster, 58, assessed his end of life care in an honest new interview on Wednesday.
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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 tough years remain in her ideas.

She described: 'I still wake up in the middle of the night stressing that I have not offered him his medicine, or that I have actually forgotten to move him every hour to avoid the agonizing contractions in his limbs.

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

The TV speaker and broadcaster, 58, reviewed his end of life care in an honest new interview on Wednesday

'The next 2nd I understand he no longer requires 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 because of it.'

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

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

Kate has been hectic juggling a busy work schedule, as the true degree of her financial obligations are exposed.

She has actually freely talked about how she has been entrusted to debts between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after caring for her late partner Derek.

As well as tackling financial obligations associated with the ₤ 16,000 a month expenses for his care, a new liquidator's report has revealed the big tax expenses that are yet to be paid by Derek's now-defunct psychotherapeutic business Astra Aspera.

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

She described: 'I still get up in the middle of the night worrying that I have not offered him his medicine'

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

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

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

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

In January 2024, it was reported that Kate may need to sell the home to repay her existing debts with one source saying: 'It has cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to look after Derek and do everything she could to get him much better however it's left her struggling.'

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

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

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

Together with the likes of Stephen Fry, Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross Kate headed to Scotland a couple of weeks ago to film the spin off of the blockbuster 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 eight episodes, which are launched weekly, feature interviews with Emiratis and Dubai locals 'who have left an enduring mark on the city.'

She recorded the series last year and has confessed that she discovered it 'intriguing' to learn more about how people lived their lives at a time when she was pondering her future strategies.

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

Kate Garraway was hospitalised with 'excruciating' chest pains due to stress amid spouse Derek Draper's COVID-19 fight: 'I believed I was having a heart attack'

Speaking before her hubby's death, Kate stated: 'Derek's care expenses more than my wage from ITV and that is before you pay for a mortgage, before you pay any household expenses, before you spend for anything for the kids, so we are at a crunch point.

'I am in debt. I can't earn adequate cash to cover my debt because I am managing Derek's care and I can't even use the cash I do need to support Derek's healing, since it's going on the basics all the time.'

In May last year, Kate candidly revealed she's turned to withdrawing money from her pension pot to pay the huge bills during a discussion about the NHS and private care on GMB.

Sharing the results of a survey that exposed one in 5 Brits are getting themselves into financial obligation while moneying personal healthcare, she confessed: 'I am doing something similar myself.

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

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

Addressing the most recent HMRC filing, Kate's spokesperson informed MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'shocked' TV star 'doesn't identify these figures' and is in contact with HMRC to make sure she 'honours what is required'.

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest pains after suffering severe stress while spouse Derek remained in healing

Their statement read: 'Kate has actually fulfilled all that the liquidators of Derek's company have actually asked for and more over the previous four years.

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

'Taking care of Derek and supporting her household when Derek might no longer run his own services has taken a substantial monetary toll on her but she's figured out to put things right.
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'She remains in with HMRC to ensure she honours what's needed from Derek's now defunct business.'

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