Piers Morgan says Kate Garraway doesn’t know if husband Derek will ‘ever come home’ calling his battle ‘unbearably sad’
PIERS Morgan has opened up about his pal Kate Garraway's heartbreak as her husband Derek Draper battles the aftermath of coronavirus in intensive care.
Saying his Good Morning Britain co-host doesn't know if Derek will ever return home, the 55-year-old star added: "It’s unbearably, gut-wrenchingly sad."
Piers said Kate and Derek had been planning to renew their wedding vows this summer after he proposed to her in Australia following her stint in the I'm A Celebrity jungle.
Writing in his column, he explained: "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 also spoke about the advice he gave his friend - to "treat what was happening like a massive breaking news story and behave accordingly".
However, the former newspaper editor says he didn't know if she'd taken the advice until he heard her echo his words in a moving interview she did on Good Morning Britain.
Referencing her two children, she said: "My job is to fight for Derek and keep life safe for Darcey and Billy. That forced me into breaking-news mode."
Piers added that he texted her after she was seen crying during the final Clap for Carers event last month.
He wrote: "'It’s a living hell, to be honest,’ she replied when I messaged her to check if she was OK. ‘I keep saying I can’t bear it, but then somehow do.
"'It’s managing feelings and holding in the same moment your greatest hope, greatest fear and total uncertainty about which way it’s going to go – all the time.'"
Derek has overcome coronavirus after being put in a coma, but Kate recently told The Sun she had been warned by doctors that he may never fully recover.
She said the disease had "wreaked extraordinary damage" on her husband, who is a former lobbyist and political adviser.
Sun columnist Jane Moore, who is Kate and Derek's friend, gave fans an update on his condition on Loose Women last week.
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She explained: "Derek contracted coronavirus and he went to hospital. It looked initially like he might have a Boris Johnson experience and come out largely unscathed, but it's attacked all his vital organs.
"He's now Covid free. They've brought him out of the coma - they put him in an induced coma - they brought him out of the coma and he's not regained consciousness yet.
"Every day she's living with this awful uncertainty. They're preparing her and saying maybe the new normality is they're never going to know if he'll recover."
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