Kate Garraway opens up on Derek Draper's last few hours admitting he was 'trapped'
dailyrecord.co.ukKate Garraway has spoken candidly about how grateful she was to be with Derek Draper in his final hours.The former political lobbyist died aged 56 on January 3, after years of health complications after contracting COVID-19 in 2020, reports the Mirror.The Good Morning Britain presenter Kate spoke candidly on her husband's last hours after they previously revealed she held his hand 'throughout the last long hours and when he passed' after suffering a cardiac arrest just 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 continued: "He lived on and on through situations that they didn't think he could.
So, I think there is a little bit of peace, but there is also a sense of unreality about it. I think that it was a huge honour for me, actually.
You can't thank the people around enough, who never stopped fighting for his life but also somehow managed to hold people."It was a huge honour to be there with him through those last hours and to have that.
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