After previously admitting she’s been left with up to £800K in debt as a result of her husband’s death, Derek Draper, Kate Garraway has stated that it’s “tough to balance the budget.”
Kate Garraway says it’s tough to ‘balance the budget’ after racking up between £500,000 and £800,000 of debt while caring for her late husband, Derek Draper.
Talking at the King’s Trust Awards with TK Maxx and Homesense, the Good Morning Britain presenter said of the cost of care, “It’s definitely tough to balance the budget, I feel like carers often don’t have a voice so I’m here to shout about it and the costs that go unnoticed.
With the costs currently increasing, I wouldn’t want to be the chancellor.
Broadcaster Kate, 48, cared for her husband Derek for four years as he suffered from an agonising health battle after contracting Covid-19 in 2020 and being left with long Covid, with the family faced with sky high costs to look after him.
“Derek’s care costs more than my salary from ITV and that is before you pay for a mortgage, before you pay any household bills, before you pay for anything for the kids, so we are at a crunch point,” Kate said before Derek’s passing.
Kate has since been a voice for carers nationwide since she first started working on Good Morning Britain in January of last year.
I’m going on about carers and the lack of support with some people, but I won’t because they need a voice, Kate said.
The broadcaster has been supported by several of her colleagues amid the difficult time, and detailed her close relationship with former co-presenter Ben Shephard.
“Ben and I are great friends, I always see him in the studio on Thursdays because I’m in for GMB and he’s in for This Morning, so it’s lovely. He’s actually not happy with me right now because we’ve been meaning to go for lunch and haven’t yet. I owe him a lunch!”
Hot off the heels of visiting Buckingham Palace a day prior to the King’s Trust Awards, Kate said she was grateful to His Majesty for his continued support of her. “The king has a very charming personality and he’s always been so kind to me. He’s looking really well and healthy too, which was really nice to see,” shared Kate.
She remarked about the involvement of the show in the Nabilla Zulfiqar-winning volunteer of the year award, which she said “is always a very special occasion and now Good Morning Britain is part of an award too.”
The King’s Trust Awards, which began in 2007, honor young people who have improved their chances of living and made a positive impact on their neighborhood.
Source: Mirror
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