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GMB’s Ben Shephard feared for my sanity and thought I was bonkers when I flew sick Derek to Mexico, says Kate Garraway

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KATE Garraway says her good friend Ben Shephard was "concerned about her sanity" when she revealed plans to fly her husband Derek Draper to Mexico for a long COVID clinical trial.

The Good Morning Britain presenter admitted it sounds "bonkers" because Derek still requires 24/7 care at home after his body was ravaged by coronavirus in 2020.

She admitted he currently "flags" after 20 minutes in a wheelchair - leaving her co-host worried for her. She said: "That came at a really low point when I thought, ‘Oh god, this is not sustainable’.

The system ... I mean, I don’t believe that we can have 24-hour care forever, you know. "There’s a point where money runs out and I was thinking, ‘This isn’t sustainable, there isn’t the structure there to help long-term, what are we actually going to do?’ “I can’t give up, I can’t give up on him, and I’ve been doing a lot of research on the following documentary of wonderful people who’ve contacted me and this particular doctor had dealt with people not as severe as Derek, but in the area. [He] offered us the chance to be a kind of test case. "But [Derek] can sustain sitting in a wheelchair for maybe 20 minutes before he flags, so the thought of going 5,000 miles seemed properly bonkers.

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