Kate Garraway shares major health update about husband Derek Draper: ‘It’s amazing’
msn.comKate Garraway has revealed husband Derek Draper has started speaking again, three years after falling ill with Covid-19. The former lobbyist was left close to death on several occasions since he caught the virus at the start of the pandemic in March 2020, and is now confined to a wheelchair, requiring care 24-hours a day.
Garraway, 56, was discussing her other half’s health during Thursday’s Loose Women when she shared that he was able to now whisper, a milestone in his recovery.
When asked by Linda Robson whether Derek, 55, could speak, Garraway revealed that he has been learning to speak again. She shared: “It’s very much a whisper.
I don’t think we’re necessarily going to have a conversation, but you get fantastic moments. “Billy had a new basketball and was bouncing it, and he said, ‘is that new ball?’.
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