Kate Garraway has exposed that she still awakens in the the night panicking that she hasn't her late hubby Derek Draper his medication.
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The TV speaker and broadcaster, 58, shown on 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 battle with long Covid.

Speaking in The Sun, she informed of how those hard years remain in her ideas.

She discussed: 'I still wake up in the middle of the night stressing that I haven't offered him his medicine, or that I have forgotten to move him every hour to avoid the painful contractions in his limbs.

Kate Garraway has exposed that she still awakens in the the night worrying that she hasn't provided her late partner Derek Draper his medicine

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

'The next second I realise 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 do not resent it, however you suffer because of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'excruciating' chest discomforts after suffering extreme stress while husband Derek remained 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 finding she could not move 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 handling a hectic work schedule, as the true level of her debts are revealed.

She has actually freely gone over how she has been entrusted to debts in between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after caring for her late husband Derek.

As well as dealing with financial obligations associated with the ₤ 16,000 a month expenses for his care, a new liquidator's report has revealed the large tax expenses that are yet to be paid by Derek's now-defunct psychotherapeutic company 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 panicking that I have not given him his medication'

The business, which was collectively managed by Kate, folded owing numerous countless pounds to creditors, including a big costs to HMRC.

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

In 2012, two other companies jointly managed by Derek and Kate folded.

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

At the exact same time, Countrymouse Media Ltd, was liquidated owing ₤ 189,121, which consisted of ₤ 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 company.

In January 2024, it was reported that Kate might need to offer the home to repay her present financial obligations with one source stating: 'It has cost hundreds of countless pounds to care for Derek and do everything she could to get him better but it's left her having a hard time.'

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

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

She has actually likewise been teasing her signing in possibly one of the most anticipated TV programs 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 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 8 episodes, which are launched weekly, function interviews with Emiratis and Dubai residents 'who have actually left an enduring mark on the city.'

She shot the series in 2015 and has admitted that she found it 'intriguing' to find out about how people lived their lives at a time when she was contemplating her future plans.

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

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

Speaking before her partner's death, Kate said: 'Derek's care expenses more than my wage 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 financial obligation. I can't make adequate 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 recovery, since it's going on the essentials all the time.'

In May last year, Kate candidly exposed she's turned to withdrawing cash from her pension pot to pay the substantial 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 personal treatment, she confessed: 'I am doing something comparable myself.

'I have actually had to withdraw the bit you can tax complimentary from my pension to spend for belated bills for my husband, who has now passed away.

'People are needing to do things - it wasn't a huge pension in the first location - which aren't what they conserved 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 required'.

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'distressing' chest discomforts after suffering extreme tension while spouse Derek remained in recovery

Their declaration checked out: 'Kate has actually fulfilled all that the liquidators of Derek's company have actually asked for and more over the past four years.

'She does not recognise these figures and is shocked that it's existing in this way by them.

'Taking care of Derek and supporting her family when Derek might no longer run his own services has actually taken a huge monetary toll on her however she's identified to put things right.

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

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