Kate Garraway 'tortured' herself by calling Derek's phone to hear 'old voice' before he died
10.01.2024 - 08:58
/ ok.co.uk
Kate Garraway has said she would call her husband Derek Draper's mobile phone to hear his "old voice" during his length health battle. The Good Morning Britain presenter, 56, announced the heartbreaking death of political adviser Derek on Friday, 5 January, nearly four years after he first fell seriously ill with Covid.
The dad-of-two suffered complications following a cardiac arrest in December. Kate was by his side when he passed as she had been throughout his health battle, which started in March 2020.
Kate has been open about her husband's health woes and spoke in detail about what her family had been through in her 2023 memoir, The Strength of Love. In the book, she opened up about how she coped during the tough times, such as when Derek was in an induced coma. She admitted to essentially "torturing" herself by calling his mobile to hear his "old voice".
Writing in The Strength of Love, Kate explained: "I knew that what I was about to do would be like torturing myself but I sensed this was the moment that I needed to push myself to the limit. "I called Derek’s old mobile number and heard his 'old voice' on the answerphone – so powerful, so in control, the soft Lancashire accent so familiar and now so distant from the whispered words we heard from Derek every day." She went on to admit that she then looked through old texts and emails from Derek, which brought her to tears and left her "full of regret". "I was floored, but knew I had to...
go deeper, so I searched his last texts to me and his emails going further back than the final heartbreaking ones he’d sent me from the hospital, before he was put into the coma. "Three years on, reading these day-to-day conversations brought me to tears. I felt full of regret that
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