Kate Garraway opens up on Derek Draper's last few hours admitting he was 'trapped'
17.02.2024 - 01:03
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Kate 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. I think about all the people during covid that didn't have that, and I think about all the circumstances when people don't have that.
"Of course that's life and things happen to people and it doesn't mean that it's any less that you can't be there. You take what you are given, but I felt like it was a lovely thing to get to do that for Derek."
The much-loved journalist broke her social media silence by sharing her support for her friend and co-host Ben Shephard.
The presenter has often commended Ben for being by her side throughout her family's battle.
ITV announced on Friday that