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

The TV presenter and broadcaster, 58, reviewed his end of life care in a candid brand-new interview on Wednesday.
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Derek died at the age of 56 in January 2024 following a four-year fight with long Covid.

Speaking in The Sun, she told of how those hard years stay in her ideas.

She discussed: 'I still get up in the middle of the night panicking that I have not provided him his medicine, or that I have actually forgotten to move him every hour to avoid the painful 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 spouse Derek Draper his medicine

The TV speaker and broadcaster, 58, assessed his end of life care in a candid 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 control of your whole life. You do not resent it, however you suffer because of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest discomforts after suffering severe stress while spouse Derek remained in healing.

She required 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 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 instantly required to the nearby A&E for tests.

Kate has actually been hectic managing a busy work schedule, as the real degree of her financial obligations are revealed.

She has actually honestly talked about how she has been entrusted to financial obligations in between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after taking care of her late other half Derek.

Along with dealing with financial obligations connected to the ₤ 16,000 a month costs for his care, a new liquidator's report has revealed the big tax costs 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 wake up in the middle of the night worrying that I have not given him his medication'

The company, which was jointly managed by Kate, folded owing numerous thousands of pounds to creditors, consisting of a large bill to HMRC.

Kate has been hectic promoting her numerous work tasks as her debts tower above her but it's not the very first time the broadcaster has needed to handle financial troubles.

In 2012, two other firms jointly controlled by Derek and Kate failed.

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

At the 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 offer the home to repay her present financial obligations with one source saying: 'It has actually cost numerous countless pounds to take care of Derek and do whatever she might to get him better however it's left her having a hard time.'

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

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

She has actually likewise been teasing her signing in maybe one of the most awaited TV programs of year - Celebrity Traitors.

Along with the likes of Stephen Fry, Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross Kate headed to Scotland a few weeks ago to film the spin off of the blockbuster BBC series.

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

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

She filmed the series last year and has admitted that she discovered it 'interesting' to learn more about how people lived their lives at a time when she was contemplating her .

Kate previously revealed 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 tension amid partner Derek Draper's COVID-19 fight: 'I believed I was having a cardiac arrest'

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

'I owe money. I can't make sufficient money to cover my debt since I am handling 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 essentials all the time.'

In May last year, Kate openly revealed she's resorted to withdrawing cash from her pension pot to pay the huge expenses during a discussion about the NHS and personal care on GMB.

Sharing the results of a study that exposed one in five Brits are getting themselves into financial obligation while funding personal treatment, she confessed: 'I am doing something similar myself.

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

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

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

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'distressing' chest discomforts after suffering severe tension while hubby Derek was in healing

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

'She doesn't identify these figures and is surprised that it's being presented in this method by them.

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

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

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