Good Morning Britain TV presenter Kate Garraway has shared the heartbreaking conversation she had with her daughter Darcey after Derek Draper’s death.
Last week, Kate announced the devastating news that husband Derek died, almost four years after contracting Covid. Derek became ill with the virus at the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and he spent more than a year in hospital. He returned home in April 2021 but still needed around-the-clock care.
Kate’s Good Morning Britian co-star and good friend Ben Shephard has now shared an emotional update on Kate and her two children – Darcey, 17, and Billy, 14, MEN reports.
Speaking to GMB viewers, he 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’”
He went on to share Kate and Darcey’s recent conversation as Ben explained: “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 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.”
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