Davina McCall has opened up astir her betterment from encephalon surgery, crediting a remark from her spouse Michael Douglas arsenic the "missing portion of the jigsaw".
The Masked Singer star underwent an cognition successful November to region a colloid cyst from her brain, which led to a stint successful intensive attraction earlier she was allowed to recuperate astatine home.
Eight weeks aft surgery, she shared her acquisition with Dragons' Den's Steve Bartlett successful what she described arsenic a "safe space", prompting her to question assistance from a intelligence wellness professional.
On her Begin Again podcast, the 57-year-old revealed: "After the interrogation I called my counsellor and I enactment successful an assignment with her and the operation that week of the podcast and an hr with her truly made a monolithic quality to me, I was capable to process rather a batch of worldly that had been a spot stuck."
She added that Michael's remark 'oh, you're back' felt similar the last portion falling into place, likening it to therapy.
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Davina McCall Instagram)Davina, who has been dating hairstylist Michael since 2019, besides utilized the podcast to situation the conception that benign tumours are not life-threatening, revealing she adjacent created a peculiar WhatsApp radical with loved ones successful lawsuit she didn't survive.
Davina shared: "I said, 'Look, I've got to program for it if it doesn't spell according to plan'. When I'd spoken to the doctors, they talked astir things similar stroke, epilepsy, these being risks.
"Nicking an artery oregon a humor vas successful the encephalon and having a bleed... truthful determination were a batch of things that could beryllium a risk."
The mum-of-three, who shares kids Holly, 23, Tilly, 21, and Chester, 18, with her erstwhile partner, revealed however beingness has been transformed post-tumour, though she clarifies it's been altered "in a bully way".
She continued: "There's that saying, 'A beingness lived successful fearfulness is simply a beingness half-lived'." Returning to the gym conscionable 2 months aft surgery, the TV personage has admitted to taking things "super easy" contempt engaging successful regular walks, and confessed it "felt good" to instrumentality to acquainted fittingness routines.
Davina volition look connected tonight's occurrence of the Masked Singer, airing astatine 7pm connected ITV One this evening (February 8).
Joining Jonathan Ross, Maya Jama, and Mo Gilligan, she'll beryllium diving into the mystery, trying to conjecture which celebs are hiding down those elaborate costumes arsenic they sing their hearts out.