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Kate Garraway has exposed that she still wakes up in the the night worrying that she hasn't given 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 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 difficult 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 forgotten to move him every hour to prevent the unpleasant contractions in his limbs.

Kate Garraway has exposed that she still awakens in the the night panicking that she hasn't given her late hubby Derek Draper his medicine

The TV speaker and broadcaster, 58, reviewed his end of life care in an honest brand-new interview on Wednesday
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'The next 2nd 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 control of your whole life. You don't resent it, but you suffer because of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'excruciating' chest discomforts after suffering extreme tension while husband Derek was 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 discovering she couldn't relocate to turn it off.

In her book, The Strength Of Love, the presenter described how she then felt a 'searing discomfort' in her chest and was instantly required to the closest A&E for tests.

Kate has been hectic managing a hectic work schedule, as the real level of her debts are revealed.

She has actually freely discussed how she has actually been entrusted to financial obligations between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after looking after her late husband Derek.

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

She explained: 'I still awaken in the middle of the night worrying that I haven't provided him his medication'

The business, which was jointly controlled by Kate, failed owing numerous countless pounds to creditors, consisting of a big expense to HMRC.

Kate has actually been busy promoting her numerous work projects as her financial obligations tower above her but it's not the first time the broadcaster has had to handle monetary problems.

In 2012, 2 other companies collectively controlled by Derek and Kate folded.

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

At the same time, Countrymouse Media Ltd, was liquidated owing ₤ 189,121, which 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 have to offer the home to repay her present debts with one source stating: 'It has cost hundreds of countless pounds to look after Derek and do everything she might to get him much better but it's left her struggling.'

But hard-working Kate has actually been on a self-promotion blitz in the middle of her latest financial troubles.

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

She has actually likewise been teasing her finalizing in perhaps one of the most anticipated TV shows of year - Celebrity Traitors.

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

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

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

She shot the series last year and has admitted that she discovered it 'fascinating' to learn more about how people lived their lives at a time when she was considering her future strategies.

Kate formerly exposed that Derek's ₤ 16,000-a-month care expenses eclipsed her GMB income, admitting in a 2023 interview that she couldn't even afford to have the heating on in October.

Kate Garraway was hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest discomforts due to tension amidst husband Derek Draper's COVID-19 fight: 'I believed I was having a cardiac arrest'

Speaking before her husband's death, Kate stated: 'Derek's care expenses more than my income from ITV which is before you spend for a mortgage, before you pay any family costs, before you spend for anything for the kids, so we are at a crunch point.

'I am in debt. I can't make sufficient money to cover my financial obligation because I am handling Derek's care and I can't even utilize the cash I do have to support Derek's healing, because it's going on the essentials all the time.'

In May in 2015, Kate openly revealed she's turned to withdrawing money from her pension pot to pay the huge bills throughout a discussion about the NHS and personal care on GMB.

Sharing the outcomes of a survey that exposed one in 5 Brits are getting themselves into debt while moneying private treatment, she admitted: 'I am doing something comparable myself.

'I have actually needed to withdraw the bit you can tax totally free from my pension to spend for belated costs for my hubby, who has now passed away.

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

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

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest pains after suffering extreme tension while hubby Derek was in healing

Their declaration read: 'Kate has met all that the liquidators of Derek's company have actually requested for and more over the past 4 years.

'She doesn't recognise these figures and is that it's being provided in this method by them.

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

'She remains in consistent contact with HMRC to make certain she honours what's required from Derek's now defunct business.'

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