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Kate Garraway has revealed that she still gets up in the the night stressing that she hasn't provided her late partner Derek Draper his medication.

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

Derek died at the age of 56 in January 2024 following a four-year fight with long Covid.

Speaking in The Sun, she informed of how those hard years stay in her ideas.

She discussed: 'I still awaken in the middle of the night panicking that I haven't offered him his medication, or that I have 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 worrying that she hasn't provided her late partner Derek Draper his medication

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

'The next second 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 control of your entire life. You do not begrudge it, however you suffer since of it.'

In 2023, Kate was hospitalised with 'agonizing' chest pains after suffering extreme tension while partner 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 couldn't move to turn it off.

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

Kate has been hectic handling a stressful work schedule, as the real extent of her debts are exposed.

She has openly gone over how she has actually been entrusted to debts in between ₤ 500,000 and ₤ 800,000 after looking after her late other half Derek.

Along with dealing with 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 died at the age of 56 in January 2024 following a four-year battle with long Covid (seen in 2007)

She explained: 'I still awaken in the middle of the night panicking that I haven't given him his medicine'

The business, which was jointly managed by Kate, folded owing numerous thousands of pounds to financial institutions, including a big costs to HMRC.

Kate has been busy promoting her numerous work tasks as her financial obligations tower above her however it's not the very first time the broadcaster has needed to deal with financial troubles.

In 2012, 2 other firms jointly managed by Derek and Kate failed.

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

At the very 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 business.

In January 2024, it was reported that Kate might need to sell the home to repay her present financial obligations with one source saying: 'It has actually cost hundreds of countless pounds to take care of Derek and do everything she could to get him better however it's left her having a hard time.'

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

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

She has actually also been teasing her signing in perhaps among the most anticipated TV programs of year - Celebrity Traitors.

In addition to the similarity Stephen Fry, Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross Kate headed to Scotland a few 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 released weekly, function interviews with Emiratis and Dubai homeowners 'who have left an enduring mark on the city.'

She filmed the series last year and has confessed that she discovered it 'fascinating' to learn about how people 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 income, admitting in a 2023 interview that she couldn't even pay for to have the heating on in October.

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

Speaking before her spouse's death, Kate said: 'Derek's care expenses more than my salary from ITV which is before you pay for a mortgage, before you pay any household costs, before you pay 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 utilize the cash I do need to support Derek's healing, because it's going on the fundamentals all the time.'

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

Sharing the outcomes of a survey that revealed one in 5 Brits are getting themselves into financial obligation while funding private healthcare, she admitted: 'I am doing something similar myself.

'I have needed to withdraw the bit you can tax complimentary from my pension to spend for belated bills for my other half, who has now died.

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

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

In 2023 Kate was even with 'excruciating' chest discomforts after suffering severe stress while hubby Derek remained in healing

Their statement checked out: 'Kate has met all that the liquidators of Derek's business have requested and more over the previous 4 years.

'She does not recognise these figures and is stunned that it's existing in this method by them.

'Taking care of Derek and supporting her household when Derek might no longer run his own services has taken a substantial financial toll on her but she's figured out to put things right.

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

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