The heartbreaking reason Kate Garraway decided to film every part of Derek's covid battle

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Kate Garraway has opened up about the reason she decided to draft in cameras to capture every aspect of her husband Derek Draper's health battle after he was hospitalised due to contracting coronavirus.The Good Morning Britain host has made a documentary about Derek's journey titled 'Caring For Derek', as well as giving updates regularly on his condition on the ITV breakfast news programme.And now, mum-of-two Kate has revealed the real reason why she chose to create the documentary and share Derek's progress with millions of viewers.Speaking on the Walt Disney Travels Journey to the Magic podcast, Kate told Giovanna Fletcher all about her decision, writes The Mirror.

Kate said: "It's one of those things that you don't want to have a reason to make, but Derek found himself very, very ill at the very beginning of Covid. "Then because he was quite well known and I'm on telly, people start to identify with you, and people that are going through it perhaps don't have the chance to speak up about all the various things and the challenges that are still going on."She then added: "So yeah, it was the chance to do it, and I'd actually started filming myself because nobody could visit Derek in the hospital, obviously, just like for everybody else and after a while, they set up an iPad for him and we could FaceTime to try and get him out of the coma."And it was so emotional seeing him with all the tubes and everything that goes with it and in such a sick state."The 55-year-old went on to say that she just "couldn't take in" the sight of her beloved husband being hooked up to multiple hospital machines.

She said that she became "overwhelmed" as she found it difficult to notice whether Derek had improved on each occasion she had seen