The mum-of-two “burst into tears” after seeing her other half’s sudden communication, which she wasn’t expecting.
“It breaks my heart that there may have been times that he’s been in terrible pain and wasn’t able to communicate it,” she told The Sun.
“But he’s said it twice now and I was there for the second one, watching him over FaceTime.”
Derek his Britain’s longest-suffering coronavirus patient, having been hospitalised for the past 215 days.