Kate Garraway has exposed that she still awakens in the the night worrying that she hasn't provided her late husband Derek Draper his medicine.
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The TV presenter and broadcaster, 58, reviewed his end of life care in a candid new interview on Wednesday.

Derek passed away 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 difficult years remain in her ideas.

She explained: 'I still awaken in the middle of the night stressing that I have not provided him his medication, or that I have actually forgotten to move him every hour to prevent the painful contractions in his limbs.

Kate Garraway has revealed that she still wakes up in the the night stressing that she hasn't provided her late spouse Derek Draper his medicine

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

'The next 2nd 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 sadness hits.

'Caring takes control of your whole life. You don't begrudge it, but you suffer since of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest discomforts after suffering extreme stress while husband Derek was in recovery.

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

In her book, The Strength Of Love, the speaker described how she then felt a 'searing pain' in her chest and was right away required to the nearest A&E for tests.

Kate has been hectic managing a busy work schedule, as the real extent of her debts are revealed.

She has actually openly discussed how she has been left with debts between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after looking after her late other half Derek.

As well as taking on financial obligations connected to the ₤ 16,000 a month expenses for his care, a new liquidator's report has actually exposed the big tax expenses that are yet to be paid by Derek's now-defunct psychotherapeutic company 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 discussed: 'I still get up in the middle of the night panicking that I haven't offered him his medicine'

The business, which was collectively managed by Kate, went bust owing hundreds of countless pounds to creditors, consisting of a big bill to HMRC.

Kate has actually been hectic promoting her various work jobs as her financial obligations tower above her but it's not the very first time the broadcaster has had to deal with financial issues.

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

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

At the 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 organization.

In January 2024, it was reported that Kate might need to sell the home to repay her present financial obligations with one source stating: 'It has actually cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to look after Derek and do everything she could to get him much better however it's left her struggling.'

But hard-working Kate has been on a self-promotion blitz in the middle of her latest financial issues.

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

She has likewise been teasing her signing in maybe one of the most awaited 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 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 citizens 'who have left an indelible mark on the city.'

She filmed the series in 2015 and has admitted that she discovered it 'interesting' 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, admitting in a 2023 interview that she could not even afford to have the heating on in October.

Kate Garraway was hospitalised with 'excruciating' chest discomforts due to tension amidst spouse Derek Draper's COVID-19 fight: 'I thought I was having a heart attack'

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

'I owe money. I can't earn sufficient cash to cover my financial obligation due to the fact that I am managing 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 fundamentals all the time.'

In May in 2015, Kate openly exposed she's resorted to withdrawing cash from her pension pot to pay the substantial costs during a discussion about the NHS and personal care on GMB.

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

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

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

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

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'distressing' chest discomforts after suffering severe tension while other half Derek was in recovery

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

'She doesn't recognise these figures and is stunned that it's being presented in this way by them.

'Caring for Derek and supporting her family when Derek could no longer run his own businesses has actually taken a huge financial toll on her however she's determined to put things right.

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

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