Davina McCall's urgent health plea with fans just months before brain tumour diagnosis

Davina McCall has announced that she has sadly diagnosed with a encephalon tumour. It comes conscionable months aft she made an urgent wellness plea to fans connected her Instagram page

It has been announced contiguous (November 15) that Davina McCall has been sadly diagnosed with a brain tumour.

The 57-year-old TV star, from London, has been taken successful for country aft doctors recovered a tumour connected her brain.

The erstwhile Big Brother presenter announced the quality to her 1.8million followers connected Instagram page.

She wrote: "Hi, truthful I’m posting this it volition beryllium Friday morning. I’m posting it due to the fact that a fewer months agone I did a menopause speech for a institution and they offered maine a wellness scan successful return, which I thought I was going to ace, but it turned retired I had a benign encephalon tumour called a colloid cyst, which is precise rare."

Davina added: "Three successful a million! So I somewhat enactment my caput successful the soil for a while, and past I saw rather a fewer neurosurgeons, I got tons of opinions. I realised that I person to get it taken out.

"It’s large for the abstraction – it fills the space. It’s 14mm wide. And it needs to travel retired due to the fact that if it grows it would beryllium bad.”

The quality comes conscionable months aft mum-of-three Davina made an urgent wellness plea to fans, again connected her Instagram page, backmost successful June. She told fans astir a escaped wellness cheque provided to women implicit the property of 40 by the government, but besides campaigned for menopause to beryllium added to the database of topics it covers.

Davina wrote astatine the time: "Ok. So each pistillate successful the UK is fixed a wellness cheque for escaped connected the NHS astatine 40 (this is GREAT!) … they speech astir each azygous unwellness known to antheral that you mightiness travel crossed … but the 1 happening that each azygous pistillate is 100% gonna spell done is not discussed wherefore are women not told astir the MENOPAUSE astatine their escaped NHS wellness cheque astatine 40…it’s 100% coming for them... nary 1 avoids the menopause... we merit to know.

"Please scan this QR codification and motion the petition to marque this hap if not for you for the adjacent procreation of young girls coming into their 40s. Thank you, you are amazing."

Davina has been unfastened astir her menopause journey, revealing successful the past that HRT is her "secret weapon". She has adjacent hosted a amusement connected Channel 4 connected the subject, titled 'Davina McCall: Sex, Myths and the Menopause'.

Continuing to speech astir her encephalon tumour successful her latest Instagram post, Davina revealed what country she volition acquisition to combat the tumour. She explained: "It volition beryllium removed via a craniotomy – they spell done the apical of my caput here, and done the 2 halves of my encephalon to the middle, get the cyst, bare it, instrumentality it out, and Bob’s your uncle. So accidental a supplication for me. I americium successful bully spirits.”

Davina's spouse Michael Douglas besides appeared connected the video to reassure fans. He said: "Just letting radical cognize that I volition person my oculus connected her passim this procedure! In information I offered to bash the operation, conscionable to marque definite it was done properly! They wouldn’t fto me. She’s successful precise bully hands.

Davina told fans that she'll look a lengthy hospital enactment aft the surgery, saying: "The recovery, I’m going to beryllium successful infirmary for astir 9 days, and past I’m going to beryllium going home, but I’m gonna beryllium disconnected my telephone for a while. So Michael mightiness capable you in.”

She said Michael would 'let fans cognize however she's doing', adding "I don’t privation you to interest astir me, I’m doing that capable arsenic it is."