Kate Garraway's heartbreaking conversation with daughter Darcey following Derek Draper's death
11.01.2024 - 11:35
/ dailyrecord.co.uk
Kate Garraway has shared the sweet but sad conversation she had with her daughter after her husband Derek Draper sadly passed away last week.
Derek tragically died from the complications of coronavirus, after first getting ill back in March 2020. Last month, he suffered a heart attack before passing away last week, leaving behind his wife Kate and their children Darcey and Billy.
On Good Morning Britain today, Kate's usual co-host Ben Shephard returned on screen for the first time since Derek died and updated viewers on his friend.
Ben told fans that Kate and the family were in the "next stages" following Derek's passing. He also shared a sweet conversation that Kate had with her daughter Darcey just yesterday when she told her she needed to go and register the death, writes The Mirror.
Ben said: "They are in the next stages of working out what happens; there's a lot of admin to do when you lose someone. In that brilliant way yesterday, she said, 'I have to go out to go and register the death'.
"She told Darcey, 'I'm going to have to go out the house', and Darcey said, 'I know this is going to be really hard but can I make one suggestion?' She says, 'course you can darling'. And then Darcey said, 'can you take the Christmas jumper off and can you brush your hair?'
Ben then added: "She said to me the clocks stopped for us just before Christmas when Derek had that heart attack and she's just starting to come out of that. We all know that Kate in the run up to Christmas wears a new Christmas jumper every day, she supports the charity. And suddenly she realises yesterday that everything has been frozen in time since then. So now it's about the next part of his journey."
Ben also said that his co-star is overwhelmed by all the