ITV Good Morning Britain’s Kate Garraway chokes back in tears after…
Kate Garraway became emotional during an interview on Good Morning Britain earlier, in which she spoke to the parents of a teenager who had been killed at a party.
The presenter, 57, fronted Thursday’s episode of the ITV show alongside Rob , 46. The pair interviewed Tara and Martin , whose son Charlie died, aged 17, after being stabbed at a party in West Sussex last year.
The grieving parents are understood to now be raising awareness knife crime. They spoke about their experience to Kate on the breakfast show earlier.
Tara said: We say ‘if it can happen to Charlie, it can happen to anybody’.” Kate responded: “And that’s the message that you’re now going into schools to encourage people to learn.” Martin said that he’s already done “a number of talks.
Kate then asked: “And your own grief, y’know the of that sort of stone that ripples out people react in different ways. How have you tried to manage the last year and what do you want people to know about how hard it is, really?.
Tara shared: Martin and I grieve in very different ways. I feel comfort well, not comfort but I want to be at home.
Y’know that’s where Charlie was, all my memories. That’s too painful for Martin – he wants to escape. So y’know we don’t actually spend a huge [amount] of time together in the house.
She continued: It’s just a very, very lonely place because no one can possibly understand unless you’ve been through this.
We have a very tight group of friends who help us – they’re just there. They don’t try and tell us what we should be doing.
Rob then asked: “Do you still feel he’s there? I mean is there still a connection like you want to go to your phone?” Tara replied: “Absolutely.
I still send him a message every morning to tell him I love him.” Martin added: “I still open his door to see I know he’s not there but honestly it’s so hard to I don’t think even now knowing the way our life is now it’s all so crazy.
Kate reacted: It doesn’t feel real.” Rob commented: “Help us understand what your message is to young people that might go into spaces with knives. Martin responded:
I tell you what my message is – it doesn’t matter what your background is, it doesn’t matter where you live, working class, affluent area, everybody has a choice.
And when you take a knife out and you make that choice to take a knife out and plunge it into an innocent human being, and take their life death is final. We have a life sentence.
We were a normal family. A kind, happy family. Charlie was a normal boy. And it has destroyed our world because someone made that choice. There are other ways. So please, please, think twice about what you’re doing because you can’t take it back.
