Kate Garraway has offered an emotional update on her husband Derek Draper.
The Good Morning Britain host was speaking in a new interview ahead of her second documentary on ITV.
Kate Garraway: Caring For Derek follows Finding Derek, which won a National Television Award last year.
The new hour-long film will see Kate adjust as former political lobbyist turned psychotherapist Derek returns home to her and their children - Darcey, 15, and William, 12.
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In an advert currently being aired on ITV for the programme, Kate is heard saying as clips of the couple at home air: “I'm very protective of people seeing him vulnerable but this is the reality of life for people that are caring. The person he is now, in many ways, is a stranger."
Kate's GMB co-host and friend of more than 20 years, Ben Shephard also features on the programme as he visits Kate and her family.
Speaking to You magazine, Kate has said she and her husband still share a "deep connection" and that they have found a "new way" to love each other.
But when asked whether they can have conversations, Kate, 54, told You : "Not really. It’s hard. I watch him microscopically; I feel like I read every flicker so I “get” him, but you wouldn’t walk into the room and think a conversation was being had.
"But he understands an enormous amount, he just can’t respond."
She continued: "I don’t think things will ever be the same again, because I don’t think we as a family and he as a human being could go through something like that and not be impacted by it.
"Months in a coma and then this. It’s going to change him, even if it’s only emotionally. We’ve all been through so much. I’m not the same."
While admitting their relationship has changed, the TV star said: "I'm not sure that we’ve ever fallen out of love, but I think a new path is emerging, a new way to be in love.
“He puts huge trust in me. He just says, 'Whatever you think', which is wonderful, but I do get quite tearful about it. I think, 'God, I hope I’m worthy of that trust.'"
In the trailer to her new ITV documentary, Kate is heard echoing the same sentiment.
She says: "If we have a love and he can be a dad to the children in a whole new way, that's life isn't it."
Derek, 54, spent more than a year in hospital after first being admitted with coronavirus symptoms in March 2020.
He was soon placed in an induced coma. and the virus 'wreaked havoc' on Derek's body.
He suffered kidney failure and liver and pancreatic damage. Derek has holes in his lungs from pneumonia and has lost eight stone.
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