Kate Garraway has revealed the reason behind her husband’s recent return to hospital. The TV presenter, 55, was back on Good Morning Britain after a three-week absence and explained why she had “dramatically disappeared” to co-host Richard Madeley.
Derek Draper, a 54-year-old former political adviser, fell seriously ill with coronavirus in March 2020 and, despite now being free of the virus, he has suffered long-lasting damage to his organs and requires daily care.
Garraway told Madeley: “I dramatically disappeared and haven’t been here for three weeks now… We were on air and Derek had come out of hospital, he’s been going in and out of hospital for a while for looking at ways to tackle the damage caused by Covid back in 2020. Read more:Kate Garraway confirms GMB return after husband Derek's "frightening turn for the worse" “But we haven’t really had any sort of medical eruptions, and then he just was really unwell.
He’d come out of hospital the day before and (I) got a phone call from the person who was looking after him saying, ‘right, we’re really worried’, so I whizzed home, and it just sort of went ‘boom’ from there.” Draper was taken to hospital where Garraway said they discovered he had “very severe sepsis, life-threatening sepsis”.
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