Kate Garraway admits rubber was ‘flying everywhere’ after’utterly terrifying’ tyre blowout

Kate Garraway has begged the universe for ‘no more bad luck’ as she spoke for the first time about the ‘utterly terrifying’ moment her tyre blew while she was driving with her family over the weekend. 

The Good Morning Britain presenter was left shaken following the incident, which occurred during her  first family trip without husband Derek Draper, 52, who is recovering from a lengthy battle with COVID-19. 

Speaking to co-host Ben Shepherd on Monday morning, Kate said: ‘You know people say God and the universe doesn’t send you what you can’t deal with.  

‘I would like to put a message out, I am at my limit, I am at my absolute limit now. If the universe could just give me a calm Monday!’ 

Referring to the accident, which happened while children Darcey, 14, and Billy, 11, were in the car, she added: ‘It was the first time that I had been out with the kids in the car, leaving London, going to meet some friends in Kent, in a socially distanced way.

‘On the way back, it suddenly exploded.’     

Addressing Instagram followers on Sunday, Kate shared a photograph of herself standing with the police officers who’d rescued her – as well as her two children – Kate explained to her Instagram followers what had occurred. 

Kate wrote: ‘Thanks to our amazing saviours Liz & Mark from @kentpoliceuk who rescued me after a full tyre blow out on the motorway!!! Never had one before – utterly terrifying.

‘Managed to keep control of car but couldn’t get off motorway as no hard shoulder & when the AA said they couldn’t come for an hour, then rang after half an hour to say might still be an hour had no choice but to call the police.

‘They were so brilliant and got us to safety and we are now on way home in taxi, shaken but safe, tow truck on way to car.

‘It’s first time have taken kids out without Derek too, but we are safe and will update you fully on @gmb with @benshephardofficial tomorrow from 6 a.m.’ 

Shortly after sharing her post, Kate’s fellow ITV presenter Eamonn Holmes shared a sweet message of support as he wrote: ‘Nothing as stupid as a Smart Motorway.’  

A smart motorway is a section of motorway that uses traffic management methods to increase capacity and reduce congestion, according to RAC.

This includes using the usual hard shoulder as an actual lane.

MailOnline has contacted Kate Garraway’s representatives for comment.

The presenter was photographed returning home on Sunday, after updating fans about the terrifying ordeal during the taxi ride back to her house.  

Clad in a pretty butterfly print maxi skirt and a long sleeved white top, the mother-of-two was seen carrying bags of belongings into her home.

While clutching onto a takeaway coffee, Kate traipsed back and fourth to ensure nothing was left in the taxi.

Despite the arduous circumstances, the TV host managed to smile as she looked back over her shoulder to thank the driver. 

The horrifying incident comes after Kate revealed nurses told her that her stricken husband Derek Draper looked ‘focused and engaged’ when they put Good Morning Britain on for him.

Speaking on the breakfast show on Tuesday morning, the presenter gave the promising update about the former Blair lobbyist who was admitted to hospital in March after being diagnosed with coronavirus, and remains seriously ill.

The TV host recently returned to GMB after taking time off while her husband was in intensive care and had told viewers that nurses had put the show on for him to try to stimulate a response.

Speaking during the programme, Kate said: ‘He is stable and actually yesterday I spoke to the nurses and they said they had put Good Morning Britain on.

‘And they felt he looked, because his eyes are open, he looked focused… He looked focused and engaged on it.’

The presenter joked with co-host Ben Shephard: ‘They didn’t say whether it was me or you’, and admitted she found the news ‘very emotional’.

She said: ‘We don’t know whether it’s the movement of the light, or whether it’s the familiar voice. So, good morning, Derek, if you are watching.

‘We’re all sending you lots of love, everyone here is sending you lots of love. So there you go, your own personal Good Morning Britain.’ 

Kate said Derek, who she married in 2005 and with whom she share daughter Darcey, 14, and son Billy, 10, had endured a ‘tough week’ following ‘big falls’ in his blood pressure and swelling in his legs.

Hours before the show hit screens, Kate teased the update as she admitted she’d had an ’emotional few days’ as she took to Instagram to re-share snaps of herself and co-host Ben larking about on set.   

Prior to her latest week at work, Kate thanked friends Myleene Klass, 42, and Roman Kemp, 27, for helping organise her son Billy’s 11th birthday bash after admitting she ‘didn’t want to let him down.’

Kate also recently revealed she had ben able to see her longtime partner in person for the first time in four months. 

 Earlier this month Kate revealed in an emotional GMB interview that Derek ha’almost died six times,’ during his battle with coronavirus.

She told Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid: ‘It is a very desperate situation, it’s very very difficult, of course there’s fantd astic hope he’s still alive, the doctors do keep saying it’s a miracle he’s still alive. 

‘I was speaking to a doctor yesterday who said he’s sick as anyone I’ve ever seen in 35 years of medicine, and some of those people who were as sick as him aren’t here. 

‘Six times they said he’s not going to make it, and obviously you couldn’t visit. So he’s been very very sick, but it’s a new disease, there’s no data, so what they can say is it’s great he’s here. 

‘There’s flickers of hope, his lungs are starting to recover, his kidneys are doing better, his liver, but they don’t know how much better he can get.’   

Asked whether there had been any explanation for why Derek had been so badly affected by the virus, Kate admitted doctors are still unsure.

She said: ‘There isn’t, he was a little bit overweight, I’m a bit of a feeder! Zero underlying conditions, he’s young comparatively, he’s 52, so there is no explanation. 

‘I think what’s happened is at every stage they’ve been learning. One of the wonderful things is that they’ve changed medical practices, they’ve changed pathways because of Derek. I keep telling him on the Facetime he would be very pleased about that.’

Now that Derek has been declared COVID-free, Kate admitted she fears for the long-term damage the virus may have done, and whether that will affect Derek in his recovery.

‘When he went into hospital, I got some texts saying ”oh I’m definitely not gonna die, tell the children I’m doing great,” but there was a feeling of terror because he had COVID and suddenly it escalated.  

‘And then suddenly it became everything, and each stage has been sort of a new terror and just when I thought we were moving forward suddenly it can now affect your body everywhere. 

‘There’s a huge post-viral syndrome, damage done in ways we didn’t know. I was sitting with Dr Hilary and he said it’s the lungs, it’s respiratory you’re fearing from COVID.’ 

Kate also reiterated that doctors had urged her to ‘get on with life’ while Derek continues to recover, insisting she had to be present for their two children Darcey, 14, and Billy, 10.

‘I have had moments, you know when you get abs gripped with fear and everything was going so well, but it’s happened to the world it’s happened to everybody, in this time you’ve seen people, I know people, you know people who have been watching this show who have been diagnosed with terrible illnesses,’ Kate added.

‘The doctors are saying to me now, ”You’ve got to get on, you’ve got to get on with life”. For Darcey and Billy effectively right now, they’ve lost their dad, they haven’t, he’s there.. he’s not a presence as he should be in their lives.’ 

Kate’s husband has been in hospital since March, and while Kate sparked hope earlier this month by revealing he has awoken from a coma, the star has been told his recovery could take years.     

She told Hello! ‘The doctors have been urging me not to put my life on pause. They’ve told me that I need to go back to work and create a routine in our lives again.

‘The children and Derek are all I’ve thought about and they’re the most important people in my life, but I must create structure and normality for the children, to clean the bath, put the plates in the dishwasher and tidy the house.

‘I also need to get back to work so that I can provide for the children and we can do things together, to make them feel that the light hasn’t gone out of their lives, that there’s hope for the future.’

During an appearance on GMB last month, Kate spoke about the start of Derek’s devastating illness, saying: ‘Derek had a painful shoulder for a couple months, and had been taking medication and having scans

‘He was due to have a steroid injection, he felt unwell and was home tutoring the kids. I got back and said ”you don’t you look right babe, I think it’s the painkillers.”   

‘I just had this weird feeling, asked if he had a cough. He didn’t, he said ‘I think I’ve got weird sinusitis.” I rang the doctor, I said ‘you don’t look great, no real feeling that it’s COVID, he had none of those symptoms.’

‘Around the 29/30 March, I came home came in and said ‘god you look ill. He said he had a headache, numbness in his right hand, and was struggling to breathe, 

‘I rang Dr Hilary (Jones) and tried to get through, he talked to Derek. He said put me back on, I think you need to call an ambulance. I said ‘I can’t believe I’m calling an ambulance’, I was very scared.’ 

Derek has previously credited Kate for saving him from depression which started during his career as a political advisor and led to a nervous breakdown and a stint in The Priory in the late 1990s.    

After moving to Los Angeles for three years and retraining as a therapist, his friend GMTV’s political correspondent, Gloria De Piero, offered to set him up with her friend and colleague Kate. 

Kate and Derek have been married since 2005, with the former lobbyist cheering his wife on for the duration of her stint on I’m A Celebrity last year.

Following her stint on I’m A Celebrity, the couple were planning to renew their vows in the coming months after Kate revealed Derek had proposed for a second time.