Kate Garraway, a host of Good Morning Britain, acknowledges she’s been in “shock” and hasn’t fully recovered from her tragic death last year.
Good Morning Britain host Kate Garraway has revealed she is finally planning to go to grief counselling after the tragic death of her husband Derek Draper. The mum-of-two became a single mother in 2024, when her husband went into cardiac arrest following a four-year health battle after he caught Covid at the start of the pandemic.
The former political advisor remained unconscious until October of that year after falling asleep in April 2020. Although he was Covid-free by the end of June, the negative effects the virus had had on his health were significant.
He needed 24-hour care, and despite spending more than a year in the hospital, he still couldn’t speak again. He was hospitalized once more in July 2022, and his condition was getting worse.
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Kate made the announcement that her husband passed away in January of this year, and she has since started rearranging her life along with Darcey, 19, and Billy, 16, along with their two children. She acknowledges that she has been “been in shock” and has been investing her life into her career and children, and that she has “been in a deliberate reset moment” during her Celebrity Traitors experience.
It’s even made her realise that grief therapy would be helpful for her. Kate told the Sun: “But I’ve realised I’m not allowing myself to process.”
She claims that she doesn’t want to spend the rest of her life “without love” and is considering moving on. She thinks it’s “preposterous” to be with anyone other than Derek right now.
She continued, “Our home life and just pottering around for 21 years, and we still have that mindset.” I do acknowledge that I won’t see anyone in my living room until the moment is right, so I will have to consider the future at some point.
But she’s taking it one step at a time, hoping to start socialising more again first. Although dating apps are completely off the cards for Kate, she thinks that meeting someone “organically” when the time is right is a possibility.
Kate recently marked another huge milestone without her husband by her side, when she dropped her son off at his new sixth form. She mused on an Instagram video: “What is it about kids, they never change do they? They manage to break your heart in a million different ways.”
Kate captioned the video, “First day at a new school, never gets easier, doesn’t it? ” I’m talking about for us parents here! Have attended so many #carpicnics in Vickie Volvo that I keep coming back just in case, just in case.
Good luck to anyone experiencing a “what were you worried about? I was never worried” teen shrug off and said, “Please don’t come tomorrow; don’t need you” – the rejection we parents know means everything is alright. I’m loving everyone, and I’m looking forward to seeing you on @smoothradio @volvocars.
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