OHMYGOSSIP — Kate Garraway used her own body to soften her bed-bound husband Derek Draper’s tumble.
The ‘Good Morning Britain’ presenter – whose husband has been in need of round-the-clock care since he contracted COVID-19 in March 2020 – recalled the time she used her own body as a cushion his fall from his wheelchair on ‘Caring For Derek’, Tuesday’s follow-up to the National Television Award winning ‘Finding Derek’.
Sharing about on the ITV documentary. The 54-year-old broadcaster said: “He went down and I was trying to say ‘are you ok?’, and he was like ‘yep’ and then we couldn’t get him up.
“It was so awful, I felt so sorry for him, the kids had gone out to the fireworks. Billy came back and he was so great.”
Kate said that when their 13-year-old son Billy came back, he told his father that “he was in a bit of a pickle”, to which Derek agreed, saying: “Yes I am, Bill.”
When their 15-year-old daughter Darcey came back, she recruited her friend’s father to help get Derek back into bed.
Kate said: “And then Darcey came down the road and was fortunately with her friend’s parents and I said ‘go and get Polly’s dad’.”
However, the ‘Life Stories’ presenter double-checked that Derek was okay with this.
Kate said: “I said to Derek, ‘are you ok with this?’ And he looked me hard in the eye and he said ‘Kate I know my predicament, we need help.'”
The three of them worked together to get Derek back into the bed.
Kate has detailed the impact that the virus has had on her 54-year-old husband – including damaging his digestive system, kidneys, liver, heart and nervous system – and has left him with a “kind of heartbreak in his eyes.”
Kate said: “Derek dreams about the ‘before’, and every morning it’s just so, so awful seeing him wake up, and the realisation of where he is.
“There’s a kind of heartbreak in his eyes, every single morning. You can just see it.
“It reminds me of when you’d have a horrible breakup and wake up in the morning, feeling all right – and then that sort of sucker punch of remembering.”

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