Kate Garraway and Larry Lamb share experiences of grief after losing loved ones

Kate Garraway and Larry Lamb share experiences of grief after losing loved onesGood Morning Britain, ITV

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00:00 I'm only at the first stages and there's so many different stages of it all,

00:03 but particularly aware of how tough it was for those during COVID who hadn't got that,

00:12 you know, wraparound around them and the chance to have a funeral where they could hug loved ones

00:19 and all of those things, which I think, you know, Ben, we talked at the time, didn't we,

00:23 about how hard that was, but I especially feel it now. It's so important, isn't it,

00:28 that people have that chance and this moment. Yeah, I mean, my brother Wes was, he would have

00:35 been quite amused had he known, you know, he'd slipped away before it all kicked off and he

00:43 was very, very brave about it and just made sure nobody was really feeling bad for him. He wanted

00:54 you just to have a laugh and a joke with him as best he could and it was extraordinary for me to

01:03 be there with him because we'd had a terrible time beforehand, the pair of us drifting apart,

01:09 but that got us back together. It was lovely. She's wonderful, wonderful for both of you. Yeah,

01:13 but I was able to be there with him, sitting by his bed. They even rigged up a bed in the corner

01:18 of the room for me at the Marie Curie Hospice, so let me sleep in the room. We hadn't slept

01:24 together in a room for, I don't know, 60 years. Yeah, and there was that lovely moment when he

01:29 asked you to kiss him. I know, I know. He looked at me and he went, and I said, "Well, you want me

01:35 to give you a kiss?" and he said, like that, and we just became these, like these two little

01:40 monkeys that used to play together and we had a kiss and that, yeah, it was lovely.