HELLO! Magazine, Kate explained that Derek still has a long way to go in his journey to recovery.‘We’re keeping positive and doing everything we can to bring him round,’ she explained, adding that she and her two children Darcey, 14, and Billy, 10 have been in contact with him every day via iPad.She continued: ‘I really believe he can hear.
When medical staff say, “Good morning, Derek!”, he sometimes opens his eyes. We and the doctors are doing everything we can so that he can start to recover.’Derek was initially hospitalised in March with the deadly virus.
He was put into a medically induced coma with Kate revealing his last words to her were: ‘I love you, you saved my life’.She admitted that she has been spending the last four months.