Kate Garraway has recalled how her teenage daughter asked her most 'awful' question as dad battled coronavirus in hospital.
The Good Morning Britain star appeared on Thursday's This Morning to chat to Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield, just weeks after husband Derek Draper was allowed to return home after spending a year in hospital.
It comes as she releases her first book, The Power of Hope, today which tells "the raw and emotional story of the devastating impact that Covid-19 has had on her family."
At one point during the interview on the ITV show, Kate, 53, recalled the heartbreaking moment daughter Darcey, 15, came to her.
"I think they were at times wondering was I going to be ok, was I going to keep going" Kate said of Darcey and son Billy, 11.
"I do put that in the book. Darcey, at one point, said: "Mum, are you going to kill yourself?"
Holly replied: "Oh my God," as Kate continued: "Out of the blue.
"The thing is, that sounds horrific, obviously, but if you know Darcey, she's really blunt and she'll always go to the most awful thing she can imagine and work her way back.
"At times that can be, 'You're not wearing that mum,' because that's the most awful thing she can imagine but she just came out with that sentence."
"'Oh my god, no. My god why would you think that?'" Kate said was her response to her daughter.
"She said, 'No I wasn't but I thought I better check.' I said no, if anything it is the absolute opposite."
Kate said she told Darcey she was "so scared" she thought that but the teen told her "not to make a big thing out of it."
Phillip added: "She just wanted affirmation. That's about the most brutal way of asking 'are you ok?'"
Kate agreed before adding: "And also, maybe realised that she's not only worried for her dad but thinking very much of me and her brother."
Kate Garraway also spoke of how her family have a "very different life" now since Derek returned home and is receiving around-the-clock care.
But admitted she "didn't know" how much of Derek she is going to get back.
"One of the sort of great tragedies and ironies is that Derek has always been about his brain, really, and his extraordinary way of looking at the world, and his colourfulness and loudness," Kate said.
"It is very hard to know really... I think we're having to have a new relationship with him.
"What is there is that he is still him. He remembers lots and lots of thing, lots of little details. He reacts to things the kids do in the way he would have done before.
"Not in the same way, he's not telling them off but he's smiling and laughing at things and he definitely adores and loves us all and wants to be there."
