GMB's Kate Garraway reveals terrifying moment ITV staff rushed her to hospital over heart attack fears

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Good Morning Britain's Kate Garraway has revealed the moment she feared she was having a heart attack just before going live on air
Kate Garraway has opened up about a frightening moment when she feared she was having a heart attack, which prompted Good Morning Britain staff to rush her to hospital. The 58-year-old presenter revealed that Dr Hilary Jones urged the show's producers to seek her immediate medical care after she experienced a serious health episode in November 2022.
At the time, Kate was caring for her husband Derek Draper, who was battling complications from COVID. She spoke candidly about how much her own health took a backseat and suffered as she dealt with her husband's health battles.
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Recalling the incident, Kate described it as waking up with "searing chest pain" but pushed herself to make her way to the studio for the live broadcast. Once there, her condition rapidly got worse, the Mirror reports.
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Speaking to The Sun, Kate shared: "I could barely move, but I forced myself into the car. On the way in, I threw up.
"By the time I arrived at the studio, something was clearly wrong. Dr Hilary told the producers to call an ambulance. Instead of going on air, I was in hospital, wired to machines, with doctors fearing a heart attack."
Fortunately, Kate's health scare wasn't an attack, but was instead described as a 'heart event'.
She continued: "The stress of fighting for Derek to get the support he needed along with the physical demands of being a primary carer 24 hours a day was such a strain that my body was feeling the effect."
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She revealed she had also spotted other signs of her own issues, but had no time to rest. Kate admitted that her autoimmune thyroid condition has "worsened significantly" and revealed that she might need surgery.
Kate has often shared the struggles she faced while trying to care for her husband Derek, who died in January 2025 after suffering a cardiac arrest. She also reveals she continues to experience a "tsunami of sadness" as she wakes up in the middle of the night panicking that she's forgotten to give him his medicine.
Kate, who shares two children with Derek, previously shared that she held her husband's hand until the very end. She recalled that, while sitting in the ambulance with an oxygen mask on before being taken to hospital, Derek spoke to his family for the last time.
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In that moment, he made one final selfless request.
According to Kate, proud dad Derek spoke to Darcey and Billy, the last time he saw them before going into a coma, saying: "You're the best children anyone could ask for. Look after mum, be good for her."
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Kate praised her two children for the way they handled the sad passing of their father in a chat on Good Morning Britain in February 2024.
Kate said: "It was one of those stop-the-clock moments, where you want the world to stop. It swamps you. We now have 24 hours, [which] turned out to be more of a month, of fighting on and fighting on, following the prognosis that he won't make it through. For the children when they heard he won't make it through, they've heard it so many times.
"They were so beautiful, the children, about that. They individually had time with him on his own and Darcey said, 'If, dad, you can't do this, it's okay. Don't worry about us'. And I had similar conversations, a chance to hold his hand and smell his skin and hold him all the way through, and some people don't get that."