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Kate Garraway feels like she’s ‘fallen down a rabbit hole’

Husband Derek Draper is fighting for his life in hospital

Kate Garraway feels like she’s “fallen down a rabbit hole” amid her husband’s coronavirus battle.

The 53-year-old TV presenter has admitted her husband, Derek Draper, saw his health deteriorate in dramatic fashion after he was first diagnosed with the disease.

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Derek and Kate in happier times (Credit: SplashNews.com)

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Derek didn’t have the normal symptoms

She recalled: “He had none of the symptoms – no cough, no temperature.

“Even when he got to hospital, and tested positive for the virus, doctors were very hopeful of recovery.

“There’s a text from him on my phone saying, ‘The doctors have been round, they’re saying I’m definitely not going to die. I’m doing great’.

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Kate Garraway has been coping admirably since Derek was put in a coma (Credit: SplashNews.com)

“But it escalated from there. He said he felt like he was constantly on the moment of suffocating, all of the time. He had to take it second by second … Another breath, another breath. They then put him in a coma.

“I feel like I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole – and never quite hit the bottom, thank God, because I think the bottom would probably be finding out he’d died.”

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Kate also thinks Derek would be “proud” of how she’s coped with the situation.

Kate Garraway keeps going

The Good Morning Britain host – who has been married to Derek since 2005 – told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: “I hope he’d be happy with how I’ve been handling it all. I also think he’d say the house is very untidy!

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Kate’s house is a bit untidy in Derek’s absence! (Credit: SplashNews.com)

“I think he would be proud and know that I’m trying. I hope that I’ve done what we would have done together.

“There have been so many times when I’ve almost gone to call him, then thought, ‘What am I doing?’ I just know that I love him and really miss him.

“I have been contacted by thousands of people from Derek’s life – patients he’s helped with his psychotherapy and people he worked with in politics. I’m not sure he knows they all feel like that.”

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Kate gave her first TV interview about Derek’s condition on GMB on Friday (Credit: ITV)

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Yesterday, Kate revealed doctors had prepared her for the ‘second worst case scenario’ that Derek may never wake from his coma.

Although he is now COVID-free, his body has been significantly damaged by the virus, including leaving him diabetic, which he wasn’t before.

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