Davina McCall shares her final words before undergoing 'worrying' brain tumour surgery

In the latest occurrence of her Making The Cut podcast with her spouse Michael Douglas, recorded 2 days earlier the procedure, McCall opened up astir the experience, admitting she felt "worried" and recovered the concern "intense."

She explained: “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 under, which is specified a bully feeling by the way, I'm going to acceptable an volition and I'm going to say, ‘love, love, love, each the way’.”

During the discussion, the Long Lost Family big admitted she had been "ignoring" the world of her upcoming surgery and had "buried her caput successful the sand" aft discovering she had a colloid cyst pursuing a regular wellness check.

Reflecting connected the unexpected diagnosis, she shared: “I waltzed into this wellness cheque cocky. It's me, fittingness lady, and I came retired with a benign brain 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.”

Davina admitted she didn't afloat grasp what the neurosurgeons were explaining to her and sought guidance from her doc and a person who had antecedently experienced a encephalon tumor.

Discussing the imaginable risks progressive successful removing the cyst, she shared: “It's successful the country of abbreviated word memory, they're [doctors] like, ‘how is your abbreviated word memory?’, I'm menopausal, it's not large astatine the champion of times!

“But what I bash cognize is that if my abbreviated word representation is affected determination are things I tin bash astir that. I americium a combatant and that is that.”

Although the beloved presenter reassured fans that she was successful bully spirits, she admitted to feeling anxious astir the surgery.

Explaining her determination to support the quality backstage until she was already successful the operating room, she said: “I didn't privation the play and I was truly reasoning astir my kids.

“It's pugnacious capable going done thing similar this connected your ain but erstwhile you've got tons of radical stopping you successful the thoroughfare and worrying astir you. Well I'm worried, I don't request different people's worry. It's intense, it's truly intense. 

“So I'm putting my telephone down, nary societal media for a mates of weeks.”

McCall explained wherefore she chose to talk retired astatine each astir her operation, adding: “I cognize that I'm good known and if I don't archer radical and I vanish for 2 oregon 3 weeks they're going to commencement digging and they volition archer their broadside of the story. 

“I'd overmuch alternatively they person thing from my mouth.”

The mother-of-three is acceptable to instrumentality 2 months disconnected enactment to absorption connected her recovery: “It's a large deal, but I'm successful really, truly bully hands. I don't privation you to interest astir me. 

“Me and Michael are stone solid, my kids are great, they're dealing with it brilliantly and I've got truly bully friends astir me. Lots of radical looking retired for me. 

“I've taken 2 months off, I've got tons of recommendations to ticker and read, I'm going to larn to play a opus I tin execute for you [Michael]. I'm ready.”

McCall ended her candid speech astir her diagnosis by asking her fans to support look aft her fellow of 5 years.

She concluded: “Will each of you look aft Michael? If you spot him, springiness him a hug.”

Her spouse Michael Douglas shared that the prima was retired of the ICU pursuing her craniotomy to region a benign colloid cyst, a information that affects conscionable 3 successful a cardinal people.