Piers Morgan has today given an update on Kate Garraway’s husband’s health. Derek Draper was rushed to hospital in March last year with a headache and breathing issues.
The presenter’s spouse was diagnosed with COVID-19 and remained there until April this year.
Piers has claimed “people don’t know the half” of it when comes to how Derek is now, despite returning to the family home.
The 54-year-old gave an update on Kate’s other half while discussing his own battle with Coronavirus.
The double-jabbed father-of-four believes he caught the Delta variant while at the Euro 2020 final, and quickly experienced symptoms.
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These included “wild chills”, aches, and up-and-down fever.
Piers said it felt “desperately unfair” that, unlike Derek, he had been vaccinated against Covid.
Writing in his latest column, the outspoken journalist said that his memory of what happened to Derek remained “vivid” as his own health deteriorated.
“Derek is three years younger than me and remains in a virtual coma 15 months after being rushed to hospital at the height of the first wave of the pandemic,” he said.
“‘I don’t know how you do it,’ I said. ‘What choice do I have?’ She replied. ‘Derek is the love of my life.'”
During his chat with Kate, Piers said he had been thinking about their family a lot.
Kate and Derek, who wed back in 2005, share daughter Darcey, 15, and 11-year-old son Billy.
Detailing what he told his pal and former co-star, Piers stated in the Mail On Sunday: “‘I’ve felt pretty awful with Covid but the vaccine may well have saved my life.