Kate Garraway has been dealt another blow in her tough year, revealing on Monday morning that her family car was stolen from outside her London home.
The Good Morning Britain star joined co-stars Piers Morgan and Susanna Reid via video link during Monday’s show to give an update on her husband Derek Draper’s ongoing battle with coronavirus.
Piers was keen to tell viewers about Kate’s latest setback, hitting out at the thieves, who he labelled ‘disgusting scumbags’.
Tough: Kate Garraway has been dealt another blow in her tough year, revealing on Monday morning that her family car was stolen from outside her London home
Kate explained her and Derek’s 20-year-old car, nicknamed Vicky Volvo, had been taken overnight.
‘Initially I thought it’s bound to be an unpaid parking ticket that Derek hasn’t been able to sort out while out of action since March and it’s probably gone through a system and it’s been impounded – but it’s actually been stolen,’ she explained to Piers and Susanna.
Piers was furious, raging: ‘Let me get this straight. Some little scumbag or scumbags have come to your house and stolen your car when you’re going through what you’re going through.
‘It is absolutely disgusting. If you know someone who has this car…It makes me puke that someone has done this.’
Hitting out: Piers Morganwas keen to tell viewers about Kate’s latest setback, slamming the thieves, who he labelled ‘disgusting scumbags’
Kate described her car as ‘silver, battered, old, and it’s got a roofbox.’
She added: ‘I don’t know but it was such a body blow – particularly to my son Billy. That was our family car and it’s just like another thing that’s been grabbed away.
‘There are bigger things than a car going on right now, but it’s one of those things.’
Piers added: ‘We’ll get your car situation fixed today,’ asking for Volvo to get in touch and help out.
‘Old and battered’: Kate explained her and husband Derek’s 20-year-old car, nicknamed Vicky Volvo, had been taken overnight. She previously shared a snap of the car in July when she suffered a tyre blowout
He then turned to the criminals and made a direct plea, telling the camera: ‘Honestly if you took that car look at your humanity for a moment please and give the damn car back.
‘It’s got sentimental value. It is the family car and it’s the only the two kids have known, it’s part of the family life. This family needs that car.’
Elsewhere in her Monday talk with Piers and Susanna, Kate fought back tears as she recalled the ‘breakthrough’ moment her husband Derek spoke his first word since emerging from a coma.
Family car: She added: ‘I don’t know but it was such a body blow – particularly to my son Billy. That was our family car and it’s just like another thing that’s been grabbed away’
The Good Morning Britain presenter revealed Draper appeared to mouth the word ‘pain’ when asked by nurses if he was in any discomfort.
While Kate said it was ‘heartbreaking’ he was suffering, it marked progress in his recovery since being struck down with coronavirus in March.
But the 53-year-old is ‘keeping herself in check’ and said: ‘The power of hope is huge but you’re constantly trying to think, at what point do I have to start being real.’
Speaking to GMB from west London, she said: ‘Way back in April when we chatted for the first time and I said “look he seems to have survives so far, so I know I already have my miracle”.
Tough time: The GMB star joined co-stars Piers and Susanna Reid via video link during Monday’s show to give an update on her husband Derek Draper’s battle with coronavirus
‘But now I’m praying for the second miracle and that is for him to come back to us. It’s very difficult because this could be it. I’m very much trying to keep myself in check, not start crying, because we still don’t know.’
Kate explained that throughout 53-year-old Draper’s hospitalisation, doctors and nurses have continued treating him as if conscious, telling him when they were about to move him and asking if he were in any pain.
She recalled: ‘And they did this, and he very clearly mouthed the word “pain”. Everybody that was there stopped and couldn’t believe it.’
The TV presenter added: ‘It is a huge breakthrough, obviously it’s heartbreaking because he feels pain and that’s not what we want….
‘What it means is that he’s been able to connect a sensation in his body, with his mouth through his brain to say the word “pain”.
Battle: Kate fought back tears as she recalled the ‘breakthrough’ moment her husband Derek spoke his first word since emerging from a coma (pictured with Derek in December 2019)
But she said: ‘I’ve spoken to you both before about is he still in there, is he locked away. I believe he is still in there. That’s a long way from being Derek with all his multiple words of colour with all the love, but it’s a start.
‘The power of hope is huge but you’re constantly trying to think, at what point do I have to start being real
She said there was ‘still a long road to go and we still don’t know how far down that road he can come’.
In August, Kate revealed she is writing a self-help book as she continues to support Derek. She admitted that she was given the deal before Derek’s illness and is now tweaking the book to include ‘insights’ from the ordeal.
She plans to call the book Good Morning Life: How To Wake Up Every Day And Smile.