Kate Garraway has exposed that she still wakes up in the the night panicking that she hasn't offered her late partner Derek Draper his medication.

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

Derek passed away 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 tough years remain in her ideas.

She described: 'I still get up in the middle of the night panicking that I haven't given him his medication, or that I have actually forgotten to move him every hour to prevent the agonizing contractions in his limbs.

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

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

'The next 2nd I he no longer requires 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 entire life. You do not begrudge it, however you suffer because of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'excruciating' chest pains after suffering severe stress while spouse 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 explained how she then felt a 'searing discomfort' in her chest and was immediately taken to the closest A&E for tests.

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

She has actually honestly gone over how she has been entrusted financial obligations between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after looking after her late other half Derek.

Along with tackling financial obligations associated with 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 business 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 provided him his medicine'

The business, which was jointly managed by Kate, failed owing numerous countless pounds to lenders, consisting of a big expense to HMRC.

Kate has been busy promoting her various work projects as her financial obligations tower above her however it's not the very first time the broadcaster has needed to deal with monetary woes.

In 2012, two other companies jointly controlled by Derek and Kate folded.

Fulfill Media Ltd had debts totalling ₤ 922,807, which included ₤ 88,486 owed to HMRC, ₤ 90,882 to trade lenders, and ₤ 462,808 in '3rd 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 business.

In January 2024, it was reported that Kate might need to offer the home to repay her present debts with one source saying: 'It has actually cost numerous thousands of pounds to look after Derek and do whatever she could to get him much better but it's left her having a hard time.'

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

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

She has also been teasing her finalizing in maybe among the most expected 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 eight episodes, which are launched weekly, feature interviews with Emiratis and Dubai citizens 'who have actually left an indelible mark on the city.'
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She filmed the series last year and has actually confessed that she discovered it 'intriguing' to find out about how individuals lived their lives at a time when she was contemplating her future plans.

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

Kate Garraway was hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest discomforts due to stress in the middle of spouse Derek Draper's COVID-19 battle: 'I thought I was having a cardiovascular disease'

Speaking before her husband's death, Kate said: 'Derek's care costs more than my wage from ITV which is before you pay 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 am in financial obligation. I can't make sufficient cash to cover my debt 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 in 2015, Kate candidly exposed she's turned to withdrawing money from her pension pot to pay the huge bills throughout a discussion about the NHS and private care on GMB.

Sharing the outcomes of a study that exposed one in five Brits are getting themselves into financial obligation while funding personal treatment, she confessed: 'I am doing something similar myself.

'I have actually needed to withdraw the bit you can tax totally free from my pension to pay for belated bills for my other half, who has actually now passed away.
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'People are needing to do things - it wasn't a huge pension in the first place - which aren't what they conserved for.'

Addressing the current HMRC filing, Kate's representative informed MailOnline on Wednesday that the 'surprised' TV star 'doesn't recognise these figures' and touches with HMRC to make sure she 'honours what is needed'.

In 2023 Kate was even hospitalised with 'excruciating' chest pains after suffering extreme stress while hubby Derek was in healing

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

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

'Taking care of Derek and supporting her household when Derek might no longer run his own businesses has actually taken a substantial monetary toll on her but she's identified to put things right.

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

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