Davina McCall gives update after worrying fans with tearful interview

The Masked Singer panelist Davina McCall took portion successful an affectional interrogation with Dragons' Den prima Steven Bartlett precocious aft having a benign encephalon tumour removed

Presenter Davina McCall has reassured fans that she's good and vowed to "move on" with her beingness aft discussing her encephalon country successful an affectional interview.

TV big Davina was interviewed in-depth by person Steven Bartlett for her Begin Again podcast and the edited mentation lasts 1 hr and 45 minutes connected YouTube. Davina gives galore heartfelt answers and astatine times it feels rather a earthy chat for idiosyncratic who lone had their brain tumour removed successful November.

But astatine the bottommost of the video connected societal media Davina added a enactment saying: "I conscionable privation to accidental that I'm successful a truly bully place, and this podcast was portion of that journey," to explicate her tears.

She aboriginal added different video connected her ain Instagram saying: "My interrogation astir my experiences with having encephalon country goes retired today. Steven Bartlett interviews me. I asked Steven if helium would bash that due to the fact that I cognize him. I consciousness precise harmless with him. I was astatine the Flight Studios bureau and I consciousness precise harmless there. I'm surrounded by love.

"This is simply a infinitesimal of clip successful my beingness that I don't privation bang connected astir again and again and again. I don't privation to beryllium defined by this operation. I've had this operation, I'm precise fortunate and it was a occurrence and I'm gonna present determination connected with my life. Obviously I americium going to speech astir the learnings of it and worldly that I've got from it, but I wanted to besides benignant of papers [it]."

As the Mirror reported yesterday Davina, prima of ITV shows including Long Lost Family and the Masked Singer, recovered the colloid cyst by accidental erstwhile she was fixed a escaped wellness scan aft giving a speech connected the menopause. In her interrogation she describes however she felt the tumour "had taken clasp of me" and that initially made her aggravated due to the fact that it made her consciousness "every time similar I'm successful danger".

But she learned to unrecorded with it, calling the tumour Jeffrey arsenic a coping mechanism. She adjacent threw parties for Jeffrey to downplay the signifigance of what the tumour meant and to effort to enactment upbeat. "I'm grateful. Life volition ne'er beryllium the aforesaid again, but successful alternatively a bully way," the TV big said successful a teary interview, her archetypal since the cognition successful November.

She besides told however she acceptable up a WhatsApp program for friends and household successful lawsuit she died connected operating table. But thankfully the November cognition was a implicit success.

In the interrogation she besides spoke astir her parent and their strained narration arsenic good arsenic her stepmother Gabby. Teary Davina said: "My mum was similar a... a fiery whirling dervish of intersexual energy. And determination was Gabby, who was everything I wanted my mum to be... Gabby was everything I wanted my mum to be... I've virtually fallen successful emotion with her.... She said to me, 'I'm atrocious I asked you to determination retired erstwhile you were nineteen'. And I said, 'It was the azygous top happening you've ever done for me.'"

Davina, 57, besides went into item of however she and spouse Michael Douglas take to comfortableness each different - often waiting until their tears person stopped falling earlier hugging. Davina says: "Michael does for me... helium holds abstraction for me. He holds abstraction for maine to consciousness my feelings, adjacent if they truly freak him retired oregon they frighten him. He is not co-dependent successful immoderate way. It's truthful nice.

"He's taught maine truthful overmuch astir that, like... maine and him, if helium needs to consciousness something, I don't hug him. I don't effort and instrumentality it distant from him. I go, 'Feel it'. And helium did the aforesaid for maine astir this. So, if I was crying, he'd beryllium with maine adjacent to me, but helium wouldn't interaction maine oregon hug me. He would go, "Feel it." And I would fto it out. And past astatine the end, he'd springiness maine an tremendous hug."

Davina, the big of My Mum, Your Dad, has agelong advocated connected women's wellness issues, and presented a documentary called Sex, Myths And The Menopause and different connected contraception called Davina McCall's Pill Revolution.

She became an MBE successful the King's day honours for services to broadcasting successful 2023 and was fixed a peculiar designation grant astatine the National Television Awards for her broadcasting career.

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