Kate Garraway turned to American preachers to help heal husband Derek Draper when he was in a coma
KATE Garraway has revealed that she turned to American preachers to help heal her husband Derek Draper when he was in a coma.
The Good Morning Britain host, 54, said she experimented with various therapies given to her by TV pal Lizzie Cundy.
The TV presenter explained that she used recordings and played preachers chanting “heal Derek now” to trigger his recovery.
In her new book, The Power of Hope, Kate said: “I needed something to counteract the emotional impact, and all of those techniques were helping me to stay positive.
“Lizzie Cundy was sending me, via a friend, recordings of American preachers saying, ‘heal Derek now’ which I asked the nurses to play to him as he lay there.
"There were days when the kids and I were almost hysterical with laughter because it was so loud and so American."
The TV star admitted that the alternative therapy may have helped to "spur him on".
She continued: “But who knows? It might have worked. It might have drifted through to him, and how cheering would it have been for Derek to know this force of goodwill was spurring him on?
“Other friends sent details of mystics and healers who helped them. It helped to get a text from them oozing confidence that I had reason to hope. It gave me strength.”
Model Linda Lusardi, 62, also reached out to psychic June Field after she caught Covid.
Kate said: “Her husband was good friends with June and he asked her to send Linda some remote healing. Linda was unaware of this but immediately afterwards she felt a wave of positivity. I got her involved immediately.”
Derek, 53, was put in a coma after catching Covid in March 2020 and spent a year in intensive care.
The former lobbyist, who currently needs 24-hour care, returned home for the first time in April.
Last month, Kate revealed that Derek "still can't move" after his life was "devastated" by Covid-19.
Appearing on The Andrew Marr Show, she said: "He is devastated by Covid. He can't really move, his communication is minimal.
"There are moment when they're up, so in those moment you feel you know he's in there. He was a lot of memory but accessing it is limited."
Kate, meanwhile, has revealed she has a new reason to thank the NHS.
Her mum, Marylyn, 78, was treated in hospital in Bodmin, Cornwall, after breaking a foot and twisting an ankle in a fall.