Kate Garraway has revealed she turned to gardening in an effort to cope with the darkest days of her husband’s seven-month hospital fight against coronavirus.
Derek Draper, 53, was admitted in March and put in an induced coma. He is still in hospital, in a minimum state of consciousness.
Tonight the Good Morning Britain and I’m a Celebrity star tells Gardeners’ World how bulb planting had given a sense of hope to her and their two children Darcey, 14, and Billy, 11.
She says: “It was rather sad because the radishes came, they’re one of Derek’s favourites. We ate them and he still wasn’t better.” Kate, 53, began thinking about more long-term projects and has planted many bulbs so “the place will be full of colour” for Derek’s return.
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