Katie Hopkins on Kate Garraway.

Bella23

I'm glad Sago started this post, I was beginning to think I was the wicked witch of the West, aided by a lot of comments.
I now realise a lot of people feel like I do I just put my comments on the wrong post I should have waited for this one.

You were brave to put your head above the parapet.

I feel very sorry for Kate Garroway, her family and what they have endured. However, I think a period of silence would not go amiss for a while.

Agree.

I suppose we ought to ask ourselves whether Derek's fight with Covid being so public did any good insomuch as highlighting how it can be deadly in some people and sometime trivialised especially with the Conspiracy theorists. I, in 2012 as an ordinary person made a programme documenting my mother's dementia and it is now being used in the education sector about how dementia can affect a person in an honest , shocking sometimes and also even lighthearted way, also we put in how it needs to be assessed sooner rather than later.
We made no money from it and we I believe it helped to get people talking about Dementia and all its facets. No regrets

I thought the coverage was way too intrusive especially the hospital scenes and those including the children. I thought KG made a real meal of her situation especially when so many others were going through similar situations. Who knows what her incentive was, maybe she did need the extra money to provide the 24 hr care her husband needed, maybe she wanted to hightight Covid effects, none of us know.
As for KG, I haven't read her comments and don't intend to, probably a cry for publicity.

I used to follow Katie but feel she is a absolute bi**h on this so won’t be following her any longer ☹️

I have always felt uncomfortable about KG's television programmes about DD. I had sympathy about DD's plight which obviously had a huge impact on her life but I never wanted to watch or read about it beyond an update on how his recovery was going. That said, I suspect that like many other people who find themselves caring for an invalid, she probably found herself dealing with everything by crisis management and didn't really have the time to make her decisions in the way you normally would.
Going to sleep every night with that clutching feeling in your intestines because you are worried about money, medical equipment, supplies, children, etc might make you decisions slightly different than somebody who doesn't have all this going on. I don't know whether KG initially had an LPA for DD but if she didn't, I assume that she acted within the law for everything she did for DD.
As for KH, she is just a nasty piece of work. Her only value might be highlighting people who agree with her in such places as GN. I never read what she writes.

I would not bother to read anything that Katie Hopkins writes. But I think that Kate Garraway did an amazing job in caring for her husband. The costs of treatment must have been high and Derek Draper was no shrinking violet when he was a political journalist. I did look him up and saw he was well known in political circles and would not have resented publicity. What that family went through, like others, was horrendous I make no judgment on Kate Garraway. I do not know her and never watch morning TV so I only know her because of this tragedy. Why can’t people give this family safe to endure the grief that comes with the death of a much loved husband and father? Without looking for the worst in people.

I would not have chosen her way BUT many do for many reasons.

I applaud anyone who does what works for them and their family

That woman , Hopkins, is an appalling woman and shouldn’t be given any time at all.
She stirs up hate. If KG was coloured would her rant be allowed?

How do any of know what we would do in such awful circumstances for KG.
Compassion.

Katie Hopkins goes out of her way to be controversial, she delights in all the negative reactions. I have mixed feelings about Kate Garraway. I understand she had to financially support her family when Derek became unable to do so and explains the documentaries and books. But I did feel for Derek in many ways.

A kind and compassionate post, Annie1

You're right, Derek was no shrinking violet - publicity was his business.

I've haven't walked in her shoes but if a loved one needed help l would move heaven and earth to get it. She funded treatment in Mexico (twice l think) and after his heart attack paid for him to be flown (medicac) back to UK (l cannot imagine how much that cost). She wanted him to live and recover as much as possible and moved mountains to that end. I cannot imagine how she coped with it all. She's devastated he's died (it's not as someone suggested 'a relief').
She is some woman.

Kate Garraway is an amazing woman both professionally and as a mother and wife. Derek Draper was lucky to have her.
If you had seen her on GMB, read her books, listened to her compassion you maybe would get a better feel for her.

It's not really about whether I like KG, it's not even about this individual case, it's more about consent and how we as a society deal with the consent of those who may not have capacity to give it.

I’m agree with GSM comments , I find KH comments distasteful but I also found watching KG very uncomfortable and knowing her political leanings her comments recently I feel have been like a party political broadcast, I hated seeing her husband paraded around when it was obvious he didn’t know what was going on 😪

I agree with Maybe70.

I nursed my best friend through cancer I know it’s not the same but not at any point did I think oh I better recorded this. I think it’s a personal thing.

I didn’t know anything about what Katie Hopkins had written until this thread, as I’m far away in New Zealand visiting family. I was a bit uncomfortable about the way Kate Garroway promoted her husband at the time, but I assumed she was doing it to ensure people knew what Covid can do. I didn’t know Kate Garroway before as I’ve never watched her programmes. I now realise that she needed to fund enormous expenses to cover costs for her husband and so there’s another reason why she did it.
I don’t feel any need to condemn her behaviour, I haven’t walked in her shoes.
I wish the family the peace to grieve now in privacy.

I found it very distasteful and undignified. Didn't watch the docu. & won't read her book.
In other news, Katie Hopkins is a vile, toxic excuse for a human being.

I don't think Covid is in the least dignified, Missiseff

There was a BBC Wales documentary filmed at the beginning of the crisis in the ICU at a Welsh hospital; patients were shown, harassed staff filming at their wits' end and dignified was the last word you could attribute to any of it.

Derek Draper gave verbal consent during Kate Garraway's first documentary.

has no one considered what caring for her husband at home has cost Kate Garraway.

It was reported last week that it was costing many £ thousands a week to care for him at home plus many thousands of capital costs to adapt the home and equip it and that the care of her DH has left her virtually bankrupt and possibly needing to now sell her house.

When she has been able to work over the last three years, she may well be well paid, but the cost of care for her DH, not to mention the welfare of their 2 children would far outstrip anything she could earn.

yes, some find it uncomfortable, but needs must when the devil drives and she has bravely done everything she could to keep the family on the road and life continuing during a period that would have have broken many of us.

My sympathies are entirely with Kate Garraway.

I haven’t seen the Katie Hopkins rant, or any of the Kate Garraway programs.
But I can’t imagine anyone would want their private suffering put on public display.
To me it seems they made a situation which was already horrible, into something much worse, poor man became famous for being ill.
Katie Hopkins is indeed a vile woman, but sometimes there is a grain of truth in her rants.

I mentioned that KG needed to fund huge expenses for the care of her husband Monica.
For this reason alone I would not condemn her, but in any case, what the whole family have endured indicates to me that they deserve compassion not condemnation.
Walk a mile in my shoes……