KATE Garraway has bravely opened up about life at home with her husband Derek Draper for a new documentary about his recovery.
Derek, 54, fell seriously ill with Covid in March 2020 and as a result was placed into a medically-induced coma.
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Good Morning Britain presenter Kate, also 54, has now invited the cameras into their home to reveal the reality of their new normal, after Derek spent 374 days in hospital.
A first-look clip shows Kate helping her husband in and out of bed using machinery and in other shots Derek can be seen using a wheelchair.
Kate said: “I’m very protective of people seeing him vulnerable, but this is the reality of life for people who are carers.”
Their children, Darcy, 15, and William, 12, are also in the documentary, as Kate speaks honestly about their situation.
She continued: “The person he is now, in many ways, is a stranger. If we can have a love and he can be a dad to the children in a whole new way, that’s life isn’t it?”
Kate previously opened up about how Derek’s illness has impacted their marriage.
She told You: “I’m not sure that we’ve ever fallen out of love, but I think a new path is emerging, a new way to be in love.
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“He puts huge trust in me. He just says, ‘Whatever you think’, which is wonderful, but I do get quite tearful about it. I think, ‘God, I hope I’m worthy of that trust’.
“But I’ve got his back. That is a relationship in itself, isn’t it? How many times do couples have doubts about each other?
“That’s a positive thing to come out of this, to have that certainty of each other. He and I are very close.”
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