Good Morning Britain star Piers Morgan has opened up about his friend Kate Garraway ‘s fears as her husband Derek Draper remains ill in hospital after being diagnosed with coronavirus.
Derek was placed into a coma days after being admitted into hospital as his condition deteriorated.
Whilst he has been taken out of his induced coma, he remains unresponsive, after being in hospital since March 30.
According to Piers, Kate isn’t sure if Derek will ever come back home as he battles the aftermath of coronavirus.
The GMB host spoke about Kate and Derek’s plans to renew their vows after he proposed to her in Australia following her I’m A Celebrity stint.
Piers said in his Mail column: “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.”
He also spoke about the advice that he gave to Kate, 53, as she struggled to deal with Derek’s coronavirus battle.
Piers wrote: “It’s so hard to know what to say in such situations.
Kate and Derek had been planning to renew their vows after she appeared on I’m A Celebrity (Image: Mirrorpix)
“I knew GMB’s Dr Hilary Jones would be giving her all the expert medical advice she needed (as he very kindly does for all of us on the team when we have family health issues), so instead I gave her the only suggestion I could think of that might actually help such a good, experienced journalist – to treat what was happening like a massive breaking news story and behave accordingly.
“It’s the mentality I’ve always tried to use myself when I’ve faced any kind of professional or personal crisis.
“Try to keep emotion out of it with the doctors and nurses,’ I said. I imagine they’re getting overwhelmed by this virus and must have so many emotional relatives who aren’t allowed to visit the hospital bombarding them all day long.
Piers opened up about the advice he gave Kate as she struggled to cope (Image: ITV)
“If you stay calm, and focused, and research everything very thoroughly, you’ll ask better questions and probably get more out of them.”
Speaking on GMB, Kate previously said how she took Piers’ advice, speaking to her friend Ben Shephard.
She said: “Very early on I spoke to Piers and he just said, ‘Right, come on Garraway, you’re a journalist. This is the story of your life. Your focus now is Derek. You’ve got to fight for Derek. You’ve got to get all the information you can.’
“And that actually really helped because I thought, ‘I’ve got a job,’ because we were in free-fall.
“My job is to fight for Derek and keep life safe for Darcey and Billy [their kids].
“That forced me into breaking-news mode. When something awful happens and you’re on-air, you’ve got to not think about the emotion of it, you’ve got to think about doing your job.
“I rode that for weeks and weeks and weeks, thinking, “What do I need to do? What doctor do I need to speak to? What else can we be doing?”
GMB continues tomorrow at 6am on ITV.
Source: Celebrities - dailystar.co.uk
