Good Morning Britain’sKate Garraway has opened up about how she turned to alternative medicine in a bid to help her Covid-stricken hubby.
Specifically, she turned to recordings of American preachers chanting “Heal Derek now” as he lay in a coma in his hospital bed.
Writing in her new book The Power of Hope, Kate said her TV pal Lizzie Cundy gave her the recordings, which she hoped would help to wake up her 53-year-old partner.
She also tried reiki, which uses hands resting just above the body to bring about ‘energy healing’, and got advice from a spiritual healer.
“I needed something to counteract the emotional impact, and all of those techniques were helping me to stay positive,” Kate explained in her new book.
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And she’s convinced that the alternative therapies helped Derek to look at her and say the word “love”.
“Lizzie Cundy was sending me, via a friend, recordings of American preachers saying, ‘heal Derek now’, which I asked the nurses to play to him as he lay there.
“There were days when the kids and I were almost hysterical with laughter because it was so loud and so American,” she continued.
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“But who knows? It might have worked. It might have drifted through to him, and how cheering would it have been for Derek to know this force of goodwill was spurring him on?”
And Kate says the alternative medicines gave her “strength” during Derek’s battle.
“Other friends sent details of mystics and healers who helped them. It helped to get a text from them oozing confidence that I had reason to hope. It gave me strength.”
And the healers didn’t charge Kate a fee for their work, as they “just wanted to help”.
Former model Linda Lusardi also received spiritual help during her own Covid battle – hers from psychic June Field.
Kate wrote: “Her husband was good friends with June and he asked her to send Linda some remote healing. Linda was unaware of this but immediately afterwards she felt a wave of positivity. I got her involved immediately.”
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Kate says the move away from traditional medicine was a “huge shift”, as she had to “open herself to all sorts of new ideas”.
And, slowly but surely, Derek began to recover, and has since moved back into the family home from hospital.
In her documentary Kate Garraway: Finding Derek, Kate could be seen breaking down in tears as she received a video of her husband crying in his hospital bed.
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Last week, Kate had been enjoying a family holiday in Cornwall when her mum unfortunately had to be rushed to hospital with a broken foot after falling on the way to the beach.
Kate reached out via Instagram to thank the NHS team at Bodmin Hospital for their help, as they managed to get her mum “safely home” afterwards.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
