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Kate Garraway has actually revealed that she still wakes up in the the night worrying that she hasn't offered her late spouse Derek Draper his medicine.

The TV speaker and broadcaster, 58, reviewed 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 battle with long Covid.

Speaking in The Sun, she told of how those hard years remain in her thoughts.

She discussed: 'I still wake up in the middle of the night worrying that I have not offered him his medication, or that I have forgotten to move him every hour to prevent the unpleasant contractions in his limbs.

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

The TV speaker and broadcaster, 58, reviewed his end of life care in a candid brand-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 control of your entire life. You do not begrudge it, but you suffer since of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'distressing' chest discomforts after suffering severe stress while other half Derek remained 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 could not 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 immediately required to the closest A&E for tests.

Kate has actually been hectic handling a busy work schedule, as the real level of her debts are exposed.

She has actually openly gone over how she has been entrusted financial obligations in between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after caring for her late hubby Derek.

Along with tackling financial obligations connected to the ₤ 16,000 a month expenses for his care, a 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 died at the age of 56 in January 2024 following a four-year battle with long Covid (seen in 2007)

She discussed: 'I still awaken in the middle of the night panicking that I haven't offered him his medication'

The company, which was jointly managed by Kate, went bust owing numerous thousands of pounds to lenders, including a big expense to HMRC.

Kate has actually been hectic promoting her numerous work projects as her financial obligations loom over her but it's not the first time the broadcaster has actually needed to deal with financial troubles.

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

Fulfill Media Ltd had debts amounting to ₤ 922,807, which included ₤ 88,486 owed to HMRC, ₤ 90,882 to trade financial institutions, and ₤ 462,808 in '3rd celebration loans'.

At the exact same time, Countrymouse Media Ltd, was liquidated owing ₤ 189,121, which 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 might have to sell the home to repay her present financial obligations with one source stating: 'It has cost numerous countless pounds to care for Derek and do everything she might to get him much better however it's left her struggling.'

But hard-working Kate has actually been on a self-promotion blitz in the middle of her most current monetary woes.

Alongside her routine GMB work, the star plugged her Smooth Radio reveal this week, revealing she was 'chuffed' that the lunch break program now reached 2.8 million listeners.

She has actually likewise been teasing her finalizing in perhaps among the most awaited 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 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 homeowners 'who have actually left an enduring mark on the city.'

She recorded the series last year and has confessed that she found it 'interesting' to discover how people lived their lives at a time when she was contemplating her future strategies.

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

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

Speaking before her spouse's death, Kate stated: 'Derek's care costs more than my salary from ITV and that is before you pay for a mortgage, before you pay any household bills, before you pay 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 financial obligation because I am managing Derek's care and I can't even use the cash I do need to support Derek's recovery, due to the fact that it's going on the essentials all the time.'

In May last year, Kate openly revealed she's resorted to withdrawing money from her pension pot to pay the substantial expenses throughout a conversation about the NHS and private care on GMB.

Sharing the outcomes of a survey that exposed one in five Brits are getting themselves into debt while funding private treatment, she admitted: 'I am doing something similar myself.

'I have actually had to withdraw the bit you can tax totally free from my pension to pay for belated expenses for my hubby, who has actually now passed away.

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

Addressing the current HMRC filing, Kate's spokesperson told MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'surprised' TV star 'doesn't identify these figures' and touches with HMRC to make sure she 'honours what is required'.

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'distressing' chest pains after suffering extreme stress while other half Derek was in recovery

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

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

'Caring for Derek and supporting her household when Derek could no longer run his own services has actually taken a big financial toll on her but she's figured out to put things right.

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

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