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

The TV presenter and broadcaster, 58, shown on 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 remain in her thoughts.

She explained: 'I still wake up in the middle of the night panicking that I haven't given him his medicine, 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 awakens in the the night worrying that she hasn't given her late hubby 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 understand 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 over your entire life. You don't resent it, however you suffer since of it.'

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

She needed medical assistance of her own after being woken by the 2am alarm she sets each night for Good Morning Britain - and discovering she could not move 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 taken to the nearest A&E for tests.

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

She has actually openly discussed how she has actually been entrusted to debts in between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after taking care of her late husband Derek.

As well as dealing with debts connected to the ₤ 16,000 a month costs for his care, a brand-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 died at the age of 56 in January 2024 following a four-year fight with long Covid (seen in 2007)

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

The business, which was jointly managed by Kate, folded owing hundreds of countless pounds to creditors, including a large bill to HMRC.

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

In 2012, two other firms jointly managed by Derek and Kate folded.

Fulfill Media Ltd had debts amounting to ₤ 922,807, which consisted of ₤ 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, 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 organization.

In January 2024, it was reported that Kate may have to sell the home to repay her current financial obligations with one source saying: 'It has cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to take care of Derek and do everything she could to get him much better but it's left her having a hard time.'

But hard-working Kate has been on a self-promotion blitz amid her most current monetary woes.

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

She has likewise been teasing her finalizing in maybe among the most expected TV shows of year - Celebrity Traitors.

Along with the similarity Stephen Fry, Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross Kate headed to Scotland a few weeks ago to film the spin off of the blockbuster 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, feature interviews with Emiratis and Dubai homeowners 'who have left an enduring mark on the city.'

She filmed the series in 2015 and has actually admitted that she discovered it 'intriguing' to learn more about how people lived their lives at a time when she was pondering her future strategies.

Kate formerly revealed that Derek's ₤ 16,000-a-month care expenses eclipsed her GMB salary, 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 pains due to stress amid other half Derek Draper's COVID-19 battle: 'I believed I was having a heart attack'

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

'I am in financial obligation. I can't earn sufficient cash to cover my debt since I am managing Derek's care and I can't even use the cash I do have to support Derek's healing, because it's going on the basics all the time.'

In May in 2015, Kate candidly revealed she's turned to withdrawing cash from her pension pot to pay the huge costs throughout a conversation about the NHS and private care on GMB.

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

'I have had to withdraw the bit you can tax totally free from my pension to pay for belated bills for my husband, 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 current HMRC filing, Kate's spokesperson informed MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'stunned' TV star 'doesn't identify these figures' and is in contact with HMRC to make certain she 'honours what is needed'.

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'distressing' chest discomforts after suffering extreme stress while spouse Derek remained in recovery

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

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

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

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

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