Kate Garraway shares heartbreaking plans for future she had with Derek Draper before husband's death

The psychotherapist became critically sick successful December 2023 pursuing a cardiac apprehension and helium died connected January 3, 2024, aft slipping into a coma.

Good Morning Britain prima Garraway revealed it’s a “sad” clip arsenic their children Darcey, 18, and Billy, 15, are preparing to fly the nest and spell to university.

The TV host, 57, explained that she and Draper, who would person celebrated their 20th wedding day this year, had “always” wanted to question erstwhile their kids grew up.

“It’s bittersweet successful a way, due to the fact that it’s a clip that Derek and I ever said we’d question unneurotic and bash much grown-up things. We utilized to emotion travelling and holidays,” she told HELLO! magazine.

Garraway besides shared Draper’s privation for her and the kids to beryllium “positive” and “get retired and live”.

"I tin statesman to spot a caller positivity for the 3 of america – I americium hoping. Where we don't look backmost and remember, ‘This clip past twelvemonth we were doing this oregon that with Dad,’ but absorption connected the future,” she said.

"Derek would privation maine to beryllium grabbing life, due to the fact that you larn however fast, and however easily, it tin beryllium snatched away. I cognize he'd beryllium saying, ‘You've got to get retired and live, due to the fact that I can't.'"

She told co-host Susanna Reid connected GMB: “It’s precise earthy Susanna to beryllium honest. It’s precise raw.

“I mean this clip past year, Derek was inactive live – precise sick. We thought it was the toughest Christmas due to the fact that weirdly successful 2020 we had a batch of anticipation that helium was coming out.

“I deliberation that I americium [still] successful the aboriginal stages of grief. The symptom and the feeling is inactive there.”

The presenter added: “It's a pugnacious 1 this twelvemonth and anyone experiencing grief, it does deed you, erstwhile you consciousness thing which is afloat of tradition, wherever you person memories, it comes back.

“I'm reasoning astir everybody other that's feeling it.”

Draper was among the archetypal successful the UK to fall earnestly sick with Covid-19 and was admitted to an intensive attraction portion arsenic the state entered lockdown successful March 2020.

He was placed successful an induced coma and it was not until much than a twelvemonth later, successful April 2021, that helium was capable to instrumentality location to his family.

Despite being escaped of the virus, helium had suffered long-lasting harm to his organs and required regular attraction astatine home.

In 2021, Good Morning Britain presenter Garraway won a prize astatine the National Television Awards for the documentary Finding Derek, astir her family’s acquisition during the pandemic.