Heartbroken Kate Garraway has confessed she is too scared to cry about her husband Derek Draper’s battle with Covid.
The Good Morning Britain presenter, 54, said she still hasn’t "really cried" since the former lobbyist was hospitalised with the virus in March last year, and she’s worried about "opening the floodgates" following her family’s nightmare.
"I mean I still haven't really cried. So I don't feel in the right place to see a therapist yet," Kate told Stella magazine.
Derek, 54, was admitted to intensive care and placed into a medically-induced coma after falling ill with Covid more than 18 months ago.
Earlier this year, he was allowed to return to the home he shares with wife Kate and their children Darcey, 15, and Billy, 12, but still requires 24-hour care from a team of specialist nurses, and sleeps for more than 20 hours a day.
She praised her children for their incredible bravery as their father recovers from the brutal side-effects of the virus, and said they’ve been "so amazing".
"They’re both processing it all in different ways and they do talk about it with friends," she shared.
Despite him needing round-the-clock care, Kate is overjoyed to have Derek at home once again, and she told the magazine it has helped her and their kids feel closer to him again, following his lengthy stint in hospital.
She also tearfully revealed the "little things" she misses about day-to-day life with her husband, such as him singing in the mornings.
Kate said she "would give everything" to hear the political lobbyist "being really loud and shouty and full of opinions, ruffling feathers in the way that he used to."
She said while she understood why people didn’t want to have the Covid vaccine, she asked them to experience "an hour in our house" to see the real effects of the virus, in the hope they would change their minds and have the jabs.
The TV presenter bravely shared her husband’s health battle in her award-winning ITV documentary Finding Derek, which landed her a National Television Award.
She dedicated her win to other families who have been devastated by Covid-19, and said she was desperate for the "joy to be back" in their lives once again.
"I just want to say to all the Darcey's and Billy’s and Derek’s and Derek's families, whatever you’re going through, you’re not forgotten.
"We want the joy back, we want it to be over but the fight goes on," Kate said in an emotional speech at the awards ceremony.
