Piers Morgan has detailed his friend Kate Garraway’s ‘gut-wrenchingly sad’ ordeal as her husband Derek Draper continues fighting in hospital. Derek, who married Kate in 2005, has been in hospital since 30 March when he was diagnosed with Covid-19, and subsequently placed in a coma.
In his Mail Online column, Piers reveals the harsh reality of Kate’s ordeal as she and her children face the possibility of Derek never waking from his coma. ‘Now, agonisingly, Kate doesn’t even know if she will ever get Derek home again, let alone to renew those vows.
It’s unbearably, gut-wrenchingly sad,’ Piers wrote. The Good Morning Britain host then recalled a conversation he had with Kate via text message, in which she said: ‘It’s a living hell, to be.