Kate Garraway reveals husband Derek Draper has lost EIGHT stone after fighting for life against coronavirus for 6 months

KATE Garraway has revealed her husband Derek Draper has lost EIGHT stone after fighting for his life against coronavirus for six months.

The 53-year-old was rushed to hospital on March 29 after his health rapidly deteriorated due to Covid-19.

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Good Morning Britain star Kate, also 53, has now revealed how her spouse has lost a huge amount of weight after being in a medically-induced coma for almost six months.

Speaking to YOU Magazine, Kate recalled the first time she got to see him on a FaceTime call as he lay unconscious in his hospital bed.

She said: "When I finally got to FaceTime him, seeing him unconscious was a big shock. He’s lost nearly eight stone in weight, a lot of it muscle throughout his body.

"He looked worn-out,thin and pale with dark circles under his
eyes and there were lots of tubes."

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Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Kate was unable to visit Derek in person until July, but she said: "I see him quite infrequently, not as often as I’d wish."

While Derek has shown signs of consciousness in recent weeks - occasionally opening his eyes - Kate has no idea whether his condition will improve further.

She explained: "We hope and believe he will come out of it, but we just don’t know. The heart of the family has been ripped out and we don’t know if we will ever get it back."

Derek is one of potentially five people in the world to have had their body be ravaged so badly by Covid-19 and his condition constantly fluctuates.

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Kate said: "If they say this has improved today you don’t feel the euphoria you’d like because you have this feeling the next day something else will have gone wrong.

"At first it was all about Derek’s lungs, but then his kidneys started failing
and he was on dialysis. Now they’ve realised Covid can affect every cell of the body."

While Kate struggles to cope with such uncertainty, her job on GMB and raising her two children with Derek, she hasn't given up hope.

She added: "What you have to keep thinking is there were so many moments when doctors thought we’d lost Derek or were about to, and he’s still here. There is still hope."