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Kate Garraway ‘considers selling £4,000,000 home’ for devastating reason after Derek Draper’s death-Kitty Chrisp-Entertainment – Metro
He died on January 5 aged 56.
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Kate Garraway is reportedly considering selling her London family home (Picture: ITV/REX)
Kate Garraway is considering selling her £4million family home after the financial stress of caring for late husband Derek Draper, it has been reported.
The Good Morning Britain presenter, 56, recently said goodbye to her husband of 18 years when he died following a cardiac arrest aged 56.
The former political lobbyist was understood to be Britain’s longest-surviving patient with Covid-19, having first contracted the virus in March 2020, which led to a series of serious health complications.
Draper’s death on January 5 marked almost three years of being in and out of hospital, and his care costs have reportedly added up to an unmanageable amount for the presenter and her family.
A source said: ‘It is so sad for Kate. Not only has she had to watch her beloved husband suffer for almost four years but her financial worries have never been far away from her thoughts.
‘It has cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to look after Derek and do everything she could to get him better but it’s left her struggling,’ they shared in the Mail on Sunday.
Derek Draper died on January 5 after years of round-the-clock care since he contracted Covid in March 2020 (Picture: James Gourley/ITV/Shutterstock)
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The author and former political advisor was hospitalised last month after suffering a ‘huge heart attack’, and has been requiring full-time care since contracting Covid in 2020.
Kate and Draper married in 2005 (Picture: REX/Shutterstock)
‘The house is about all she has left financially and she is now facing up to the fact it might have to be sold. It’s where she and Derek were so happy and also where her two children grew up – but bills are bills and they have to be paid. It’s dreadful for Kate.’
The former lobbyist was left with damage all over his body, including kidney failure, holes in his lungs and damage to his heart and liver after contracting the virus.
Back in February 2022, Kate revealed she and Draper made a 11,000-mile trip to Mexico in the hopes that he could receive specialist treatment there.
A month later, it was reported Kate had shut down Draper’s psychotherapy firm Astra Aspera Ltd due to him requiring round-the-clock care.
At the time, it reportedly owed £184,000, including £125,000 in taxes.
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Kate is taking a break from her presenting duties in the wake of Draper’s death (Picture: Ken McKay/ITV/Shutterstock)
It was recently reported Kate and Draper made another trip to Mexico to save Draper’s life prior to his cardiac arrest in December, which happened out there.
Following the cardiac arrest in Mexico, getting Draper home to the UK was said to be a ‘military operation’ and was reportedly done via medevac – a specialist and very costly air ambulance.
He eventually died in a London hospital, with Kate announcing the news of his death on January 5.
She took to social media and said: ‘I’m sad to have to tell you all that my darling husband Derek has passed away.
‘As some of you may know he has been critically ill following a cardiac arrest in early December which, because of the damage inflicted by Covid in March 2020, led to further complications.’
The presenter shared that Draper was ‘surrounded by his family in his final days’, and she was ‘holding his hand’ when he died.
Kate has made two documentaries about Draper’s health battle – Finding Derek and Caring for Derek – which have been widely praised by charities for raising awareness for carers and the long-term effects of Covid.
The Smooth Radio presenter is reported to taking leave from work following Draper’s death.
Draper is survived by Kate and their two children, Darcey, 17, and 11-year-old Billy.
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