Kate Garraway says her 'I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!' stint helped her prepare for her husband's battle with COVID -19.
Kate Garraway
Kate's spouse Derek Draper has been hospitalised since last March after contracting the virus and she credits her time on the reality TV show with giving her the strength to get through the ordeal, while caring for their children Darcey, 14 and William, 11.
She told Good Housekeeping magazine: "Forcing myself to do frightening things in the jungle was definitely good for my soul, and it made me believe I could do things I never dreamed possible.
"And flippin' heck! I've had to put that knowledge into practice, haven't I? So actually, maybe the jungle prepared me for getting through this."
Meanwhile, Kate previously admitted she is finding the situation tough to deal with.
She said: "It's been a strange time, I've been a bit low since Christmas - physically low, I felt physically at the end of my tether and had to regroup a bit.
"This week, a friend of mine's mother-in-law, who is 51 - younger than me - died from COVID . She got it at Christmas, it went down very quickly and she died, I just thought I can't believe that here we are so far on.
"Derek's still ravaged from the effects of COVID from way back in March, his recovery is incredibly uncertain.
"I'm trying to look for new things and new ways and talking to doctors about what we can do for him meanwhile people are still dying in extraordinary numbers - people that aren't older and haven't got underlying conditions, it's unbearable."
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