Kate Garraway admits she's still struggling with grief following the tragic loss of her husband, Derek Draper . The former spin doctor died, aged 56, on January 3 this year after contracting Covid in March 2020. Kate, also 56, who shares two children with Derek, opens up about her heartbreaking loss in a new documentary Derek's Story. Revealing how she's coping after returning to work on Good Morning
Britain and Smooth FM, she said ahead of the film's release next week: "Dealing with our grief as a family has been so hard, and we have a long way to go of course. But we are also so grateful to have had the chance to care for Derek and have the extra four years with him that so many don’t." Good Morning Britain's Kate Garraway sadly lost her husband, Derek Draper, earlier this year Kate thanked viewers for their "incredible" support as she made her return to hosting Good Morning Britain in Februrary. She came back to present the ITV breakfast show less than a week after Derek's funeral - in which the couple's daughter, Darcey, was a pallbearer - as she said it was "lovely" to be back but she felt a little "wobbly". At the beginning of the show Kate revealed: “The other day, somebody called me a widow for the first time – it took my breath away. It was an
Amazon delivery person who said ‘I’m so sorry for your loss now that you’re a widow’ and you suddenly realise, and I suddenly realised, what everyone goes through. That every single moment is something new and we’ve all just got to get through it and everybody has it with all sorts of things they’re facing." Derek told his wife in his final months that the message he wanted to share was "Never give up fighting for what you believe in and for the people you love." A new ITV documentary showing the lobbyists's final year with Kate will be told through his voice after he said he wanted the ITV cameras to carry on filming him. Derek died just after new year with TV host Kate holding his hand "throughout the last long hours" in hospital. He contracted Covid in March 2020 and suffered multiple organ failure at the time, spending 13 months in hospital. The new film will show Derek returning to hospital in mid-December last year when he suffered a heart attack and was sadly never well enough to leave, with Kate spending much of the
Christmas period by his bedside. Ahead of the documentary, which airs on March 26, Kate said: "I remember so vividly that the idea of making this third documentary at all came from Derek himself. I hadn’t planned to make another one. At the beginning of January 2023, he’d been released from a four month spell in hospital for sepsis and we were very positive about his recovery. "Derek was determined to keep on getting better and improving. One day, we were sitting together while I was caring for him and he suddenly, from nowhere, asked, ‘Are we making another documentary?’. I said, ‘Well I hadn’t really planned to. Were you thinking that you would like to?’. And he said firmly 'yes' . I said, ‘Well, if we do, I think we should work on it together and it should be your story, told in your voice.’" Speaking about the future of the film, Kate concluded: "I now want to highlight the incredible people within the care system, and the NHS , who are trying to improve how people like myself and Derek can be better supported." Kate Garraway: Derek's Story airs Tuesday March 26 at 9pm on ITV1, ITVX and STV. Kate Middleton's 'stylish and comfortable' Superga trainers are in stock at M&S Follow Mirror Celebs on TikTok , Snapchat ,
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