Kate Garraway has opened up about the sweet nights in she shares with her "bedridden" husband Derek Draper.
The Good Morning Britain host opened up to Succession actor Brian Cox about how her and husband Derek, who is thought to be the longest-suffering coronavirus patient in the UK, spend quiet nights in watching the show, which has become a comfort to them.
Derek was admitted to hospital back in 2020 after catching coronavirus and whilst he is now home with his wife Kate and kids, Billy and Darcy, he needs round the clock care for his various health issues as he makes slow progress.
Speaking on the ITV breakfast show, she told Brian: "My husband's bedridden and we've been watching it back to back."
It comes after Kate revealed Derek is still "very very damaged" and struggles to move, speak and has to be fed through tubes.
"It is challenging, he's still very, very damaged. He still can't really move, still can't really speak, still fed through tubes, and so there's a long road ahead," she told Giovanna Fletcher on her podcast, Journey To Magic, "But if you compare to last Christmas or the Christmas before, when he was still in hospital then you can see improvement."
She added: "It's just, you just want it to be quicker and faster, of course, like everybody would. But it's a challenging one - he spent most of last year in the hospital as well for various different things, so it was lovely to have him home."
Kate explained that with Derek, it was like "the computer is switched off".
"There are some days where he literally cannot do anything and it’s like the computer is switched off. He cannot move, and he’s in so much pain as we are manipulating him, trying to get him more mobile so that he doesn’t regress," she said.
Kate had also shared how what happened has made her fall in love with him even more.
"It also makes me fall in love with him all over again because of that spirit, that determination to keep going. Derek is trapped, but he fights on. We cling on to the good days," she admitted in a sweet comment about her husband.
