Davina McCall has said that she is "not afraid of dying" after undergoing an operation to remove her brain tumour.
The former Big Brother presenter made these comments on Fearne Cotton's Place podcast, having confirmed that her "final MRI" had shown a colloid cyst, which was removed in November 2024. She was also told it was "not coming back".
“I am not afraid of dying anymore and it was the biggest journey of my life. From August 23 to November 24 was an amazing time where something changed", Cotton said. “Begin Again, the podcast I started to help other people on their journey of living a life that they love enough to feel on their deathbed, whenever that may be, that I have no regrets".
She continued: “I have lived the life I wanted, and I’m not lying there going, ‘I wish I’d done that thing, wish I’d done that job, I wish I’d not stayed in this relationship’, all of those I haven’t lived the life I want (things), and Begin Again is about just begin again and live the life you want".
Elsewhere, Davina McCall also spoke about the time her tumour was found.
“I thought I need to get my brain in the right place and that was to a place where I could be calm, and what did I need to do to do that? Were my kids going to be okay if I didn’t make it? That’s all I really cared about", she explained. “I knew Michael (Douglas, her partner), Michael’s a whole person, Michael’s Michael, but I was really worried about my kids".
“I went forensic on thinking about my children and where they were at in their life, what stage they were at. You’re only as happy as your unhappiest child, right?".
“I came to a realisation after about six months of cross-examining them about their life and telling them the whole time how much I’ve loved my life. My eldest daughter kept caught on. She was like, ‘you are not dying’, I was like, ‘no, no, no’, I realised that they would be great".
“They’d miss me and I want to be with them but they would be okay. I felt like I could go to sleep on the operating table and know that they were all here to help me, but I can let go of the outcome and it was the best gift. I am not afraid of dying".
McCall went on to describe the whole procedure as “the hardest thing I’ve ever been through”.
Back in May, Davina McCall had admitted that she wrote "letters and a will" ahead of her operation. More on this here.
