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Kate Garraway’s husband Derek’s carer ‘burst into tears’ over discussion with Piers Morgan

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Piers Morgan has detailed a poignant conversation he had with his friend Kate Garraway and her husband Derek during his four-year health battle. The TalkTV host, 58, recalled calling Kate in 2021, the night before she appeared on ITV’s Life Stories.

When he asked how Derek was, Kate replied: “He’s next to me now, why don’t you ask him yourself? Darling, it’s Piers.”

Piers recalled in his column for The Sun: “‘Derek!’ I cried. ‘It’s so good to talk to you!’ There was a pause and then I heard a familiar voice say clearly and firmly: ‘Hello!’

“‘HELLO!’ I stammered back. ‘It’s great to hear your voice again. Keep battling Derek – we’re all so proud of you!’

“Another pause, then, ‘Thank you!’”

When Kate came back on the phone, Piers told her that he “wasn’t expecting” to have such a powerful exchange with Derek.

And it wasn’t just Piers who was touched by the conversation as Kate shared the following day that “one of his carers burst into tears afterwards because he hadn’t interacted like that for so long”.

Derek required round-the-clock care after he became seriously ill with Covid in March 2020. He was placed in an induced coma and kept in the hospital for more than a year.

When he returned home in 2021, the former political advisor remained mostly bedridden and needed 24-hour care due to the damage caused to his organs.

Kate shared her family’s plight in her ITV documentaries, Finding Derek (2021) and Caring for Derek (2022) – both of which won National Television Awards.

Sadly, Derek’s health took a turn for the worse in December when he suffered a heart attack while undergoing specialist treatment in Mexico.

Following the gruelling 12-hour flight back to the UK, Derek was put in intensive care and Kate and their children – Darcey, 17, and Billy, 14 – are understood to have spent Christmas by his hospital bedside.

Last Friday, Kate announced that Derek had died “surrounded by his family” and with the Good Morning Britain presenter “holding his hand”.

Signing off her heartbreaking Instagram post, Kate said: “Rest gently and peacefully now Derek, my love, I was so lucky to have you in my life.”

On Monday, Kate thanked her fans for their support over this difficult time, saying that it had been an “extraordinary comfort”.

The journalist then asked viewers to “forgive” her for “taking time at home”, but added that she “looks forward” to returning to GMB “soon”.

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Source: NewsFinale

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