Loose Women’s Jane Moore has heaped praise on Kate Garraway for her remarkable strength amid her husband Derek Draper’s devastating coronavirus battle.
Speaking on Monday’s installment of the panel show, Jane, 58, commended the Good Morning Britain host, 53, as Derek remains in a coma, with Jane stating that Kate is facing a ‘new normality’.
Jane recently sat down with Kate for an in-depth interview as the presenter discussed her husband’s ordeal, with Jane then saying on the show: ‘I honestly don’t know how she’s still standing.’
Support: Loose Women’s Jane Moore has heaped praise on Kate Garraway for her remarkable strength amid her husband Derek Draper’s devastating coronavirus battle
Joining her fellow panellists Andrea McLean, Denise Welch and Kelle Bryan on the show, Jane opened up on her chat with Kate, which took place at a safe distance for ‘a couple of hours’ in the star’s garden.
After Andrea sent their warm wishes to ‘our dear friend Kate Garraway and her husband Derek’, Jane then went on to commend Kate for showing great strength through this extremely difficult time in her life.
She said: ‘We’ve always known that Kate is strong and an amazing woman, but I honestly don’t know how she’s still standing.’
Discussing Derek’s battle, she continued: ‘Derek contracted coronavirus, 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.
Strong: Speaking on Monday’s installment of the panel show, Jane, 58, commended the Good Morning Britain host, 53, as Derek remains in a coma, with Jane stating that Kate is facing a ‘new normality’
‘He’s now COVID free, they’ve brought him out of the coma, they put him into an induced coma and brought him out of the coma, and he’s not regained consciousness yet.
‘So every day she is living with this awful uncertainty, she’s now talking about maybe our normality is that they are never gong to know if he will recover.’
Denise then went on to mention how Kate had gone into ‘journalistic mode’ as she began researching everything she could about the virus, while also taking care of her children William, 10, and Darcey, 14,
Friends: After Andrea sent their warm wishes to ‘our dear friend Kate Garraway and her husband Derek’, Jane then went on to commend Kate for showing great strength through this extremely difficult time in her life
Courageous: She said: ‘ We’ve always known that Kate is strong and an amazing woman, but I honestly don’t know how she’s still standing’
And while Kate has so much to cope with, Jane said that the star doesn’t begrudge anyone for relaxing during lockdown as she recalled Kate had said: ‘I will not judge anybody for wanting to lead a normal life.
‘But this virus, you don’t where this virus is going to go in your body, and what it’s going to do to you.’
Jane then opened up on how Kate has continued to deal with the tragic situation and how she’ll cope with what’s to come in the future.
In the interview, Kate said that doctors warned that Derek, who’s been in a coma for over 10 weeks, may be trapped in a coma ‘forever’.
Heartbreaking: ‘So every day she is living with this awful uncertainty, she’s now talking about maybe our normality is that they are never gong to know if he will recover’
Jane said of Kate: ‘And now she’s talking about how, maybe, it’s a new normality,
‘They’re preparing her, they’re saying maybe the new normality is that they’re never going to know whether he’ll recover.’
During her interview with Jane, Kate revealed her husband Derek may be trapped in a coma forever, with doctors warning her to prepare for the ‘second worst case scenario.’
Derek, 52, was admitted to hospital on March 30, after struggling to breathe. Kate and their children Billy and Darcey also experienced mild coronavirus symptoms.
Speaking in The Sun interview, Kate said she received a ‘terrible phone call’ two weeks ago from a senior doctor in the intensive care unit.
Devastating: Kate revealed her husband Derek Draper may be trapped in a coma forever, with doctors warning her to prepare for the ‘second worst case scenario’
The presenter explained: ‘My first question, the one I always ask when the hospital call, was, ‘Is Derek still alive?’ and he said he was, but then asked me what my greatest fear was.
‘I said, “Derek dying” and he replied, “Well, now I think I have to give you a second worst case scenario, which is that he never changes from this, that he is locked in this for ever”.
‘He said, “I’m not telling you this to scare you. It’s because we don’t know if he can recover. We’ll only know over the coming weeks and months”, I threw up, there and then.’
Agonising: In an interview with Jane for The Sun, the Good Morning Britain host opened up on Derek’s devastating battle with coronavirus, which she says ‘attacked everything’ (pictured last year)
The doctor said: ‘Well, now I think I have to give you a second worst case scenario, which is that he never changes from this, that he is locked in this for ever’
Kate said she never imagined she would be told her husband may be trapped in a comatose permanently.
The Good Morning Britain host described it as the ‘second level of loss’, saying even if he doesn’t die, if he doesn’t wake up she will have lost him anyway.
The mother-of-two went on to explain how the virus has wreaked havoc with Derek’s body.
She told how the illness ‘attacked everything’ before heartbreakingly admitting; ‘we don’t know if he can recover’.
The former lobbyist is now covid-free but is suffering from serious complications.
Devastating: Kate said she never imagined she would be told her husband may be trapped in a comatose permanently (pictured December 2019)