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Kate Garraway is making a show with ITV to document the last year of her late husband Derek’s life after he lost his long battle with Covid.
The former Labor insider and psychotherapist married presenter Kate Garraway, 56, in 2005 and died in early January aged 56.
After catching Covid in 2020, Derek had been seriously ill ever since.
During his time in the hospital in 2020, Draper was placed on a ventilator and placed in an induced coma for several weeks.
Just over a year after contracting Covid, he was able to leave hospital and return to his family home in north London, with round-the-clock care.
Kate Garraway is making a show with ITV to document the last year of her late husband Derek’s life after he lost his long battle with Covid
The former Labor insider and psychotherapist married presenter Kate Garraway, 56, in 2005 and died in early January aged 56 (seen in 2019)
In August 2022, he was taken to the hospital with sepsis, but pulled through. Then, in early December 2023, Draper suffered a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital again.
The new ITV film follows the two previous award-winning films also made by Flicker Productions: Finding Derek and Caring for Derek.
The couple began filming in May 2023 with the hope that it would give an insight into Derek’s personal struggles with illness and highlight the challenges faced by millions of people in the UK living with serious illness and disability and those who care for them. be faced with.
The film, called Derek’s Story, will reflect on Derek’s life before Covid, including his high-profile political career, as well as his relationship with Kate, their first year together and how Derek’s illness changed the nature of their dynamic.
ITV said when Derek was asked why he wanted to take part in the film, he said: “I want to be heard.”
Kate, who has two children with Derek, Darcey, 17, and Billy, 14, said: ‘Obviously when we started making this documentary at the beginning of last year we had no idea of the events that would unfold , who ultimately took Derek from us.
Derek was one of the first to become seriously ill with Covid-19 in March 2020. Kate announced that he died on January 3 last month
Kate and her children – Darcey, 17, and William, 14 – are seen in black as they leave Derek’s funeral last month
Towards the end of her life, Kate became Derek’s full-time carer (pictured at the National Television Awards in London in 2007)
The film, called Derek’s Story, will reflect on Derek’s life before Covid, including his high-profile political career, as well as his relationship with Kate (seen on their wedding day)
‘And in January 2024, I wondered if it was real that it was ever going to air.
‘But I didn’t want to let down those who have given us so much support over the past four years, and the paid and unpaid carers who, in their thousands of letters to me, feel that Derek’s story has given them a voice .
‘Also, I remembered so clearly that the idea of making this third documentary came from Derek himself at all.’
Although the exact date of the film’s release has not yet been announced, ITV has confirmed that it will be shown later this month.