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Kate Garraway has actually revealed that she still awakens in the the night stressing that she hasn't offered her late husband Derek Draper his medicine.

The TV speaker and broadcaster, 58, reviewed his end of life care in an honest 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 hard years stay in her ideas.

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

Kate Garraway has exposed that she still wakes up in the the night panicking 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 second I he no longer needs that care. There is a minute of relief - that I did not let him down - before a tsunami of unhappiness hits.

'Caring takes control of your entire life. You don't resent it, but you suffer due to the fact that of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'excruciating' chest pains after suffering extreme tension while partner Derek remained in recovery.

She required medical help 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 explained 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 juggling a hectic work schedule, as the true degree of her financial obligations are revealed.

She has freely gone over how she has been entrusted debts between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after looking after her late hubby Derek.

Along with tackling debts connected to the ₤ 16,000 a month costs for his care, a new liquidator's report has actually revealed the big tax costs 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 battle with long Covid (seen in 2007)

She described: 'I still wake up in the middle of the night worrying that I haven't given him his medication'

The business, which was jointly managed by Kate, failed owing hundreds of thousands of pounds to creditors, consisting of a big costs to HMRC.

Kate has been busy promoting her numerous work jobs as her debts loom over her but it's not the first time the broadcaster has needed to deal with financial woes.

In 2012, two other firms collectively controlled by Derek and Kate went bust.

Fulfill Media Ltd had debts totalling ₤ 922,807, which consisted of ₤ 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 service.

In January 2024, it was reported that Kate might have to sell the home to repay her present financial obligations with one source saying: 'It has cost numerous thousands of pounds to care for Derek and do whatever 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 woes.

Alongside her routine GMB work, the star plugged her Smooth Radio reveal this week, exposing she was 'chuffed' that the lunch break show 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.

In addition to the likes of Stephen Fry, Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross Kate headed to Scotland a couple of weeks ago to movie the spin off of the smash struck 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 launched weekly, function interviews with Emiratis and Dubai citizens 'who have left an enduring mark on the city.'

She recorded the series in 2015 and has admitted that she discovered it 'interesting' to find out about how people lived their lives at a time when she was considering her future plans.

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

Kate Garraway was hospitalised with 'distressing' chest discomforts due to tension amidst hubby Derek Draper's COVID-19 battle: 'I thought I was having a cardiovascular disease'

Speaking before her hubby's death, Kate said: 'Derek's care costs more than my income from ITV and that is before you pay for a mortgage, before you pay any household expenses, 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 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 have to support Derek's recovery, since it's going on the fundamentals all the time.'

In May last year, Kate openly exposed she's resorted to withdrawing money from her pension pot to pay the huge costs throughout a conversation about the NHS and personal care on GMB.

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

'I have actually needed to withdraw the bit you can tax complimentary from my pension to pay for belated expenses for my partner, who has now died.

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

Addressing the newest HMRC filing, Kate's spokesperson told MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'stunned' TV star 'does not acknowledge these figures' and is in contact with HMRC to ensure she 'honours what is required'.

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'distressing' chest pains after suffering severe stress while spouse Derek remained in healing

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

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

'Caring for Derek and supporting her household when Derek could no longer run his own services has taken a substantial financial toll on her however she's determined to put things right.
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'She is in constant contact with HMRC to ensure she honours what's required from Derek's now defunct company.'

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