OHMYGOSSIP — Kate Garraway says she and husband Derek Draper have found “a new way to be in love”.
Two years after contracting COVID-19, Derek still requires 24-hour care at home and Kate says the trust he puts in her to manage his illness has led to their relationship taking on a deeper meaning.
She told The Mail on Sunday’s You magazine: “I’m not sure that we’ve ever fallen out of love, but I think a new path is emerging, a new way to be in love.
“He puts huge trust in me. He just says: ‘Whatever you think.’ Which is wonderful, but I do get quite tearful about it. I think: ‘God, I hope I’m worthy of that trust.’ But I’ve got his back. That is a relationship in itself, isn’t it? How many times do couples have doubts about each other? That’s a positive thing to come out of this, to have that certainty of each other. He and I are very close.
“I don’t think things will ever be the same again, because I don’t think we as a family and he as a human being could go through something like that and not be impacted by it. Months in a coma and then this. It’s going to change him, even if it’s only emotionally. We’ve all been through so much. I’m not the same.”
Although Kate, 54, and their children Darcey, 15 and Billy, 12, have found it difficult to cope with Derek’s illness, she admitted that nothing compares to how Derek is struggling.
She explained: “If it is gruelling for me, it’s even more so for him, I’m sure, because he’s living with it. As much as it impacts on the children and myself, being in his body must be so much worse.”
In the documentary ‘Finding Derek’, which Kate previously made about his illness, Derek admitted to feeling suicidal and Kate revealed: “I still sense that in him. But now I think he believes he can get better, but until we know how, it’s challenging.”
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