‘I haven’t been allowed for two months’: Kate Garraway reveals she hasn’t seen her husband Derek Draper since CHRISTMAS amid his year-long hospitalisation with coronavirus
Kate Garraway revealed she is still not allowed to visit her husband Derek Draper as he remains in hospital amid his year-long COVID battle.
The Good Morning Britain host, 53, spoke to boxer Frank Bruno on the show on Friday and when the sportsman said: ‘If you see your husband today, give him my regards’, Kate delivered the heartbreaking news of their distance’.
She said: ‘I will do, unfortunately I’m not allowed to. Haven’t for two months. But I will try to pass that message on. That’s very kind.’
In September, Derek, 53, passed the grim milestone of becoming the longest patient battling coronavirus in hospital in the UK, with doctors telling Kate that Derek’s infection was the ‘highest they had seen in a patient who had lived’.
Heartache: Kate Garraway revealed she is still not allowed to visit her husband Derek Draper as he remains in hospital amid his year-long COVID battle
Kate has been candid about Derek’s battle and the strife she has faced during his prolonged stint in hospital, during which he has slipped in and out of a coma.
The doting mother-of-two has been at her partner’s side constantly since he was first hospitalised with the potentially deadly virus in March 2020.
Earlier in the week, she said to her co-host Ben Shephard: ‘Well, I haven’t been able to see him, Ben. I haven’t seen him since Christmas, which of course means he’s back into a situation where he’s looking at strangers in masks…
‘And I think that’s the situation for everybody, they’ve got somebody in the hospital at the moment, it’s not unique. It’s tough…
‘It’s also the same for people in care homes. And when you’re someone like him who is dealing with a consciousness problem and trying to emerge, I can’t help but fear it’s not helpful.’
Time apart: Kate has been unable to see her ailing husband Derek Draper, 53, since Christmas as he continues to recover from coronavirus (pictured in December 2019)