Derek Draper’s, health updates by his wife Kate Garraway

Derek Draper’s health battle’s updates shared by Kate Garraway during an interview with Chris Ellison.

Derek is best known for his character DCI Frank Burnside, actor is suffering from medical condition called aphasia, same speech debilitating illness which Hollywood star Bruce have.

While having conversation during interview with Chris, Derek’s wife Kate shared actor survived COVID after year of being hospitalized, he also finds hard to communicate.

On Tuesday, during GMB she said, “In a sense Derek because of COVID, has a version of this where he can understand, sometimes do odd words, but can’t express himself. It’s very interesting what you say Anita about the loneliness of that because you’ve lost that relationship and that ability for others to see your partner.”

Kate told that his husband Derek who is 54 year-old returned from hospital in April 2021 after spending a year in hospital fighting for his life after contracting Covid-19.

She revealed during December how her husband manages to speak a few words in rare moments.

Whereas Piers Morgan explained in Garraway’s Life Stories interview: “When I rang you about this interview, without warning me, you said, ‘Why don’t you talk to Derek?’

“And Derek replied when you said it was me, a very loud, clear ‘Hello’, and I said a few things to him and the end and he said, ‘Thank you’. I was stunned. We all were,” On which she replied. “The careers that were there with me at the time burst into tears. I don’t want to suggest you’re a healer Piers but it was remarkable.”

Kate explained: “It’s moments like that which make you realize he is there and we have had others. He will turn to me and say, ‘I love you’. He is there, he has fought so hard to stay in this world and I am not giving up on him, ever.”

She further added of Derek’s conversation: “He will have moments of clarity, then it’s like he disappears but then he finds a voice.”