Kate Garraway fought back tears as she came face-to-face with a man who shared a hospital ward with her late husband Derek Draper.

The presenter, 56, was visibly emotional during an interview with children’s author Michael Rosen, 77, who was on the same intensive care unit as Derek while they battled Covid.

In the moving interview, Michael and Kate discussed ITV‘s new drama Breathtaking, which depicts the harrowing ordeal of NHS staff during the pandemic, as well as his own battle with ‘survivor’s guilt.’

Michael was in intensive care for 47 days when he contracted Covid in 2020, and he previously admitted hat he was just ‘hours from dying.’

Derek passed away aged 56 on January 3 from a cardiac arrest, following years of multiple health complications after contracting Covid. 

Kate Garraway was visibly emotional as she came face-to-face with a man who shared a hospital ward with her late husband Derek Draper

Kate Garraway was visibly emotional as she came face-to-face with a man who shared a hospital ward with her late husband Derek Draper

Derek passed away aged 56 on January 3 from a cardiac arrest, following years of multiple health complications after contracting Covid

Derek passed away aged 56 on January 3 from a cardiac arrest, following years of multiple health complications after contracting Covid

During the interview on Thursday’s Good Morning Britain, Kate explained to viewers that she was initially unaware that Michael and her late husband were battling Covid at the same time. 

She said: ‘Derek was in the same ward, and you were in a coma at the same time,’ before recalling the kind words of a nurse who had been transferred to the hospital from Great Ormond Street.

During the interview, Kate and Michael also discussed the lack of PPE that was available for NHS staff during the pandemic, as well as Michael’s struggles with ‘survivors guilt.’ 

She said: ‘A lot of staff feel guilt – which they shouldn’t do, but do feel guilty of what they could have done differently – and shock and trauma.

‘And in your own way you have felt – although again you shouldn’t do – you have felt guilt, tell us about that.’

In reference to Derek’s death, Michael said: ‘Well I am telling you Kate.

‘I hear about people who died and meet people, I get into a cab and the cabbie says their relations have died from Covid. And I think, why am I here?’

Ben also detailed his own ‘arms-length’ experience seeing his longtime friend Kate struggle with Derek’s health battles for months after contracting Covid.

On Thursday's Good Morning Britain, Kate interviewed children's author Michael Rosen, 77, who was on the same intensive care unit as Derek while they battled Covid

On Thursday’s Good Morning Britain, Kate interviewed children’s author Michael Rosen, 77, who was on the same intensive care unit as Derek while they battled Covid

Kate explained to viewers that she was initially unaware that Michael and her late husband were battling Covid at the same time

Kate explained to viewers that she was initially unaware that Michael and her late husband were battling Covid at the same time

Kate, returned to Good Morning Britain last week after Derek’s funeral, following Derek’s passing in January.

The mother-of-two bravely opened the show with co-host Ben Shepard and told viewers that ‘life has to start again’ and ‘nothing has changed.’ 

Kate previously told of how she held his hand ‘throughout the last long hours and when he passed’ after suffering a heart attack before Christmas

Speaking on LBC News last week, she thanked the doctors and nurses who ‘fought for his life’ and explained how she wanted Derek to know ‘they weren’t giving up.’

Recalling his final moments, Kate said: ‘I wanted him to know I wasn’t giving up because if you are trapped as they believe he was, inside a body that was very damaged and failing, I didn’t want him to think that we were departing him.’

She continued: ‘He lived on and on through situations that they didn’t think he could. So, I think there is a little bit of peace, but there is also a sense of unreality about it. 

‘I think that it was huge honour for me, actually. You can’t thank the people around enough, who never stopped fighting for his life but also somehow managed to hold people. 

‘It was a huge honour to be there with him through those last hours and to have that. I think about all the people during covid that didn’t have that, and I think about all the circumstances when people don’t have that.

‘Of course that’s life and things happen to people and it doesn’t mean that it’s any less that you can’t be there. You take what you are given, but I felt like it was a lovely thing to get to do that for Derek.’

This week will be Kate’s last co-hosting Good Morning Britain with Ben Shephard, as he is set to leave the show ahead of becoming the new presenter of This Morning.

The broadcaster was unveiled as the ITV show’s new host alongside Cat Deeley after much speculation on Friday. 

Post source: Daily mail

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