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Kate Garraway has revealed that she still awakens in the the night stressing that she hasn't provided her late spouse Derek Draper his medication.

The TV presenter and broadcaster, 58, reflected on his end of life care in a candid new interview on Wednesday.

Derek died at the age of 56 in January 2024 following a four-year fight with long Covid.

Speaking in The Sun, she informed of how those hard years stay in her thoughts.

She explained: 'I still get up in the middle of the night stressing that I haven't offered him his medication, or that I have forgotten to move him every hour to avoid the uncomfortable contractions in his limbs.

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

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

'The next second I realise he no longer needs 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 begrudge it, but you suffer due to the fact that of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'distressing' chest discomforts after suffering severe tension while hubby Derek was 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 described how she then felt a 'searing pain' in her chest and was instantly required to the nearest A&E for tests.

Kate has been hectic managing a stressful work schedule, as the real extent of her financial obligations are exposed.

She has honestly talked about how she has been entrusted to debts between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after looking after her late husband Derek.

Along with tackling debts related to the ₤ 16,000 a month costs for his care, a brand-new liquidator's report has actually 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 discussed: 'I still get up in the middle of the night panicking that I have not offered him his medicine'

The company, which was collectively controlled by Kate, went bust owing numerous thousands of pounds to financial institutions, a big costs to HMRC.

Kate has actually been hectic promoting her various work jobs as her financial obligations loom over her but it's not the first time the broadcaster has needed to handle monetary concerns.

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

Fulfill Media Ltd had financial obligations totalling ₤ 922,807, which included ₤ 88,486 owed to HMRC, ₤ 90,882 to trade financial institutions, and ₤ 462,808 in 'third 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 business.

In January 2024, it was reported that Kate might need to sell the home to repay her existing debts with one source stating: 'It has actually cost hundreds of countless pounds to take care of Derek and do whatever she might to get him much better however it's left her struggling.'

But hard-working Kate has been on a self-promotion blitz amid her newest financial problems.

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

She has actually also been teasing her signing in perhaps one of the most anticipated TV programs of year - Celebrity Traitors.

Along with the similarity Stephen Fry, Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross Kate headed to Scotland a few weeks ago to movie the spin off of the smash hit 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 eight episodes, which are launched weekly, function interviews with Emiratis and Dubai homeowners 'who have left an indelible mark on the city.'

She shot the series in 2015 and has actually confessed that she found it 'fascinating' to discover how individuals lived their lives at a time when she was pondering her future plans.
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Kate previously revealed that Derek's ₤ 16,000-a-month care expenses eclipsed her GMB wage, admitting in a 2023 interview that she could not even pay for to have the heating on in October.

Kate Garraway was hospitalised with 'distressing' chest pains due to tension in the middle of other half Derek Draper's COVID-19 battle: 'I believed I was having a cardiovascular disease'

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

'I owe money. I can't make sufficient money to cover my financial obligation due to the fact that I am handling Derek's care and I can't even utilize the cash I do have to support Derek's healing, due to the fact that it's going on the basics all the time.'

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

Sharing the results of a survey that exposed one in 5 Brits are getting themselves into financial obligation while moneying personal medical care, she confessed: 'I am doing something similar myself.

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

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

Addressing the current HMRC filing, Kate's spokesperson informed MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'surprised' 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 'excruciating' chest discomforts after suffering severe stress while spouse Derek remained in recovery

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

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

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

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

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