💔😢 “NO ONE SHOULD GO THROUGH THIS”: KATE GARRAWAY’S EMOTIONAL CONFESSION ABOUT LOVED ONE’S TERRIFYING ORDEAL LEAVES FANS HEARTBROKEN AND SHOCKED 😢💔

“NO ONE SHOULD GO THROUGH THIS!”: Kate Garraway speaks out on loved one’s terrifying ordeal in emotional confession

The Good Morning Britain presenter opened up about a loved one’s harrowing sepsis experience.

Kate Garraway recalled a loved one ‘feeling like they were going to die’(Image: ITV)

Kate Garraway has shared memories of a distressing time when a loved one believed they were dying while battling sepsis.

The Good Morning Britain host discussed the traumatic experience on the ITV breakfast show today, while speaking with bereaved families who have lost relatives to the life-threatening illness.

Kate and co-presenter Paul Brand spoke with Melissa Mead, whose one-year-old son William died from the infection in 2014, and Zaheer Ahmed, whose five-year-old nephew died in hospital from sepsis in 2022.

The bereaved families are now joining forces to push for a national inquiry into what they believe are shortcomings in the treatment delivered.

Kate shared the harrowing ordeal on Good Morning Britain today(Image: ITV)

During the discussion, as Kate addressed Zaheer, she said, “Zaheer, it’s obviously challenging when it’s a child, but even in adults, that sensation of feeling like you’re going to die is still not being listened to,” reports the Mirror.

She added: “I’ve experienced it myself, someone I loved who had sepsis, who said, ‘This is bad, I feel like I’m going to die,’ and the medical professional didn’t necessarily believe that at that point.”

It remains uncertain whether Kate was referring to her late husband Derek or another relative, though Derek was admitted to hospital with sepsis during his prolonged health struggle.

Derek Draper died in January 2024(Image: PA)

Derek passed away at the age of 56 in January 2024, having spent the preceding Christmas and New Year in hospital following a heart attack, after years of medical challenges.

The former lobbyist had contracted Covid-19 in March 2020, and in the months and years that followed, he endured one of the most severe cases of the virus.

Kate chronicled their family’s struggle and her husband’s care in two ITV documentaries, Caring for Derek and Finding Derek, and she was praised for highlighting the condition.

Kate’s life changed dramatically following Derek’s Covid illness(Image: ITV/Flicker Productions)

Since his death, Kate has been candid about her grieving process and previously discussed how Derek felt “trapped in his body”.

A month after his passing, she reflected on his final moments, poignantly saying: “I just wanted him to know I wasn’t giving up because if you are trapped, as they believe he was, inside a body that was very damaged and failing, I didn’t want him to think that we were departing him, that we were giving up.”

She added: “He lived on and on through situations that they didn’t think maybe he could. So, I think there is a little bit of peace, but there is also a sense of unreality about it. I think that it was a huge honour for me, actually.

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Kate has spoken about her grief after Derek’s death(Image: Getty Images)

“And you can’t thank enough the people around, the nurses and doctors around, who never stopped fighting for his life but also somehow managed to hold people. And one of the things I keep thinking about, it was a huge honour to be there with him through those last hours and to have that.

“I think about all the people during Covid that didn’t have that, and I think about all the circumstances when people don’t have that.

“Of course, that’s life and things happen to people, and it doesn’t mean that it’s any less if you can’t be there because you take what you are given, but I felt like it was a lovely thing to be able to do for Derek.”

Good Morning Britain airs weekdays from 6am on ITV1 and ITVX.