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Kate Garraway has revealed that she still gets up in the the night worrying that she hasn't offered her late partner Derek Draper his medicine.
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The TV presenter and broadcaster, 58, reviewed his end of life care in an honest brand-new interview on Wednesday.

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 difficult years stay in her thoughts.

She discussed: 'I still get up in the middle of the night worrying that I have not provided him his medication, or that I have forgotten to move him every hour to avoid the agonizing contractions in his limbs.

Kate Garraway has revealed that she still wakes up in the the night worrying 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 an honest new interview on Wednesday

'The next 2nd I realise he no longer requires that care. There is a minute 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, but you suffer due to the fact that of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest pains after suffering extreme tension while other half Derek remained in healing.

She needed medical help of her own after being woken by the 2am alarm she sets each night for Good Morning Britain - and discovering 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 taken to the nearest A&E for tests.

Kate has been hectic juggling a chaotic work schedule, as the real degree of her debts are revealed.

She has honestly discussed how she has been entrusted debts between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after taking care of her late hubby Derek.

In addition to tackling debts associated with the ₤ 16,000 a month expenses for his care, a brand-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 passed away at the age of 56 in January 2024 following a four-year fight with long Covid (seen in 2007)

She described: 'I still wake up in the middle of the night panicking that I have not offered him his medication'

The business, which was jointly controlled by Kate, folded owing numerous countless pounds to lenders, consisting of a large bill to HMRC.

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

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

Media Ltd had financial obligations amounting to ₤ 922,807, which 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 company.

In January 2024, it was reported that Kate might need to offer the home to repay her existing financial obligations with one source saying: 'It has actually cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to take care of Derek and do everything she might to get him better but it's left her struggling.'

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

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

She has actually likewise been teasing her finalizing in maybe among the most anticipated TV programs of year - Celebrity Traitors.

Together with 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 revealed as the host of a brand-new Dubai-set podcast and YouTube series - DXB Unheard.

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

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

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

Kate Garraway was hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest discomforts due to tension amid other half Derek Draper's COVID-19 battle: 'I believed I was having a heart attack'

Speaking before her other half's death, Kate said: 'Derek's care expenses more than my salary from ITV which is before you spend for a mortgage, before you pay any home bills, before you pay for anything for the kids, so we are at a crunch point.

'I am in debt. I can't make enough money to cover my debt due to the fact that I am managing Derek's care and I can't even utilize the cash I do have to support Derek's recovery, since it's going on the basics all the time.'

In May in 2015, Kate openly revealed she's turned to withdrawing cash from her pension pot to pay the big expenses throughout a discussion about the NHS and private care on GMB.

Sharing the outcomes of a study that exposed one in five Brits are getting themselves into financial obligation while moneying personal healthcare, she admitted: 'I am doing something similar myself.

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

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

Addressing the latest HMRC filing, Kate's representative informed MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'surprised' TV star 'doesn't recognise these figures' and touches with HMRC to make certain she 'honours what is needed'.

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest pains after suffering extreme tension while other half Derek remained in recovery

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

'She does not acknowledge these figures and is surprised that it's existing in this method by them.

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

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

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