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Kate Garraway has actually revealed that she still gets up in the the night panicking that she hasn't provided her late spouse Derek Draper his medicine.

The TV speaker and broadcaster, 58, reviewed 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 of how those hard years stay in her ideas.

She discussed: 'I still wake up in the middle of the night panicking that I have not given him his medicine, or that I have actually forgotten to move him every hour to prevent the unpleasant contractions in his limbs.

Kate Garraway has exposed that she still gets up in the the night panicking that she hasn't given her late other half Derek Draper his medicine

The TV presenter 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 needs that care. There is a moment of relief - that I did not let him down - before a tsunami of sadness hits.

'Caring takes over your entire life. You do not begrudge it, but you suffer since of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'distressing' chest pains after suffering extreme stress while partner Derek was in healing.

She required medical help of her own after being woken by the 2am alarm she sets each night for Good Morning Britain - and finding she couldn't relocate to turn it off.

In her book, The Strength Of Love, the presenter explained how she then felt a 'searing discomfort' in her chest and was immediately taken to the nearest A&E for tests.

Kate has actually been busy juggling a busy work schedule, as the true level of her debts are exposed.

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

As well as dealing with financial obligations connected to the ₤ 16,000 a month costs for his care, a new liquidator's report has actually exposed the large 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 explained: 'I still awaken in the middle of the night worrying that I have not provided him his medication'

The business, which was collectively managed by Kate, folded owing numerous thousands of pounds to creditors, including a large bill to HMRC.

Kate has actually been hectic promoting her various work tasks as her financial obligations tower above her but it's not the very first time the broadcaster has had to handle financial woes.

In 2012, 2 other firms collectively managed by Derek and Kate folded.

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

At the exact 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 organization.

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 numerous thousands of pounds to take care of Derek and do everything she might to get him better however it's left her having a hard time.'

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

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

She has likewise been teasing her signing in perhaps among the most expected TV programs of year - Celebrity Traitors.

Along 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 smash hit BBC series.

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

Each of the 8 episodes, which are released weekly, function interviews with Emiratis and Dubai citizens 'who have actually left an enduring mark on the city.'

She recorded the series in 2015 and has actually admitted that she discovered it 'fascinating' to find out about how people lived their lives at a time when she was pondering her future strategies.

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

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

Speaking before her husband's death, Kate said: 'Derek's care expenses more than my salary from ITV which 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 financial obligation. I can't earn enough money to cover my financial obligation since I am managing Derek's care and I can't even utilize the money I do have to support Derek's healing, due to the fact that it's going on the essentials all the time.'

In May in 2015, Kate openly exposed she's turned to withdrawing cash from her pension pot to pay the big costs during a conversation about the NHS and private care on GMB.

Sharing the outcomes of a survey that revealed one in five Brits are getting themselves into financial obligation while moneying private healthcare, she admitted: 'I am doing something comparable myself.

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

'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 current HMRC filing, Kate's spokesperson told MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'stunned' TV star 'doesn't recognise these figures' and touches with HMRC to ensure she 'honours what is needed'.

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'excruciating' chest pains after suffering severe tension while husband Derek remained in recovery

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

'She does not recognise these figures and is stunned that it's being provided in this way by them.

'Caring for Derek and supporting her household when Derek could no longer run his own services has actually taken a big financial toll on her however she's identified to put things right.
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'She remains in constant contact with HMRC to ensure she honours what's required from Derek's now defunct business.'

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