Kate Garraway: 'Derek was trapped inside a body that was very damaged and failing'
ok.co.ukKate Garraway has shared how she felt her husband Derek Draper was 'trapped' as she spoke about his last few hours. Mum-of-two Kate expressed her thankfulness for being able to be with her late husband before his death.
Derek, who was a former political lobbyist turned author and psychologist, died at the age of 56 on January 3 after battling multiple health complications due to coronavirus.
Good Morning Britain presenter Kate spoke about her husband's last hours after previously sharing that she held his hand "throughout the last long hours and when he passed" after he suffered a cardiac arrest before Christmas.
Speaking on LBC on Friday, she said: "I wanted him to know I wasn't giving up because if you are trapped as they believe he was, inside a body that was very damaged and failing, I didn't want him to think that we were departing him." She went on to say: "He lived on and on through situations that they didn't think he could.
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