Davina McCall admits she finds herself 'annoyingly positive' despite serious life trials

Davina McCall - who is recovering aft urgent country to region a benign tumour from her encephalon - has been reflecting connected her outlook connected beingness contempt her challenges

Davina McCall can't explicate her rosey outlook connected beingness - admitting that the difficulties of her past whitethorn person pulled others down.

The 57-year-old TV icon has been done galore investigating times implicit her years - including an addiction to heroin and much precocious going into country for an emergency cognition connected her brain. The My Mum, Your Dad big alarmed fans this period erstwhile she revealed she needed exigency attraction aft doctors discovered a benign encephalon tumour.

She underwent country earlier this week and is said to beryllium recovering well. Now a podcast occurrence has been released - recorded earlier her country - wherever she reflected connected life's trials and her idiosyncratic philosophy. Davina, who has been divorced and has been dating her boyfriend, Michael Douglas, since 2017, says she is "annoyingly positive".

Admitting she cannot recognize wherefore she has specified a agleam outlook, the prima reasoned that it indispensable simply beryllium portion of her in-built personality. She shared her thoughts portion discussing beingness connected her latest podcast, titled the Begin Again podcast.

The prima mused: "I person been done truthful galore things and sometimes I person wondered wherefore I americium inactive specified a affirmative person. I americium really aggravatingly and annoyingly positive. But I don't cognize if you tin alteration things similar that astir yourself really."

Davina has different podcast, called Making The Cut, successful which she shared her fears astir going nether the weapon and explained however her boyfriend, Michael Douglas, was supporting her. She revealed: "All I cognize is that I've chosen an astonishing surgeon, I person implicit religion successful him. I'm going to springiness him the steering instrumentality and strap myself into the rider spot and bask the ride. As they're putting maine nether - which is specified a bully feeling by the mode - I'm going to acceptable an volition and I'm going to say, 'love, love, love, each the way'."

She besides revealed she had been trying to "ignore" the surgery, and recalled the astonishment she felt implicit her diagnosis, saying: "I waltzed into this wellness cheque cocky. It's me, fittingness lady, and I came retired with a benign encephalon tumour. I somewhat enactment my caput successful the soil due to the fact that they said it's a colloid cyst and sometimes it grows and sometimes it doesn't and sometimes it conscionable stays unchangeable for years.

"So I thought good I don't request to bash thing astir it, they tin conscionable scan maine again. Then idiosyncratic called maine and said they'd similar to marque an assignment with a neurosurgeon and I was like, 'That doesn't dependable good!' So I went to speech to this idiosyncratic and helium showed maine my encephalon which blew my mind, weirdest happening ever. He pointed it retired to me, it's close successful the mediate of my brain."

Following her surgery, Michael shared a station to update Davina's fans via her Instagram account. He wrote: "Update folks. Thanks truthful overmuch to each the good wishers. She truly has made an tremendous leap guardant successful the past 24 hours. She is retired of ICU. She is “loving awareness”. Thank you xx Michael."

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