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Kate Garraway was rushed to hospital last year over fears she was having a heart attack.<\/p>\n
The Good Morning Britain presenter, 56, who has been caring for her husband Derek Draper for over three years after he almost died from Covid, recalled waking up one morning in November 2022 with a crippling pain in her chest.<\/p>\n
Regardless, she headed to work but was had to stop the car to be sick on the way.<\/p>\n
\u2018There was a searing pain in my chest \u2014 as though someone had punched their fist through my breastbone, snatched hold of my heart and squeezed,\u2019 she wrote in her upcoming book, The Strength of Love, via The Sun.<\/p>\n
\u2018The pain was sharp and excruciating. Then I realised that it wasn\u2019t a sudden onset of pain. It had been there all the time. My temporary paralysis had \u00addistracted me \u2026\u2019<\/p>\n
She continued: \u2018[After getting in the car] nausea swept over me and I asked the driver to pull over. I was sick in the kerbside drain, cringing at how shameful it was.<\/p>\n
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\u2018I got back into the car, the pain in my chest now all-consuming and creeping up my neck and into my jaw. When we got to the studios, I went straight to my dressing room and collapsed on my sofa.\u2019<\/p>\n
Kate called ITV\u2019s daytime TV doctor Dr Hilary who then urged her to go to hospital. She refused to allow staff from her show to call an ambulance but took herself to a nearby accident and emergency department accompanied by a junior producer.<\/p>\n
Thankfully doctors assured she wasn\u2019t having a heart attack but did stress Kate needed to take better care of herself with the stress of caring for her husband Derek.<\/p>\n
She confirmed doctors are keeping an eye on her condition.<\/p>\n
\u2018It might have been stress-related angina,\u2019 she explained. \u2018Or it could also have been my body\u2019s response to stress in general. But it has forced me to make some changes.\u2019<\/p>\n
In a new interview with The Times, Kate revealed her husband has now developed a terrifying new condition which can see him \u2018choke and turn blue\u2019.<\/p>\n