Former Big Brother presenter Davina McCall has opened up about her thoughts on death after the TV legend recently underwent surgery to have a brain tumour removed
Davina McCall has opened up about her own mortality.
The former Big Brother presenter revealed that she is “not afraid of dying” after she recently underwent surgery to remove a benign brain tumour.
Back in April the 57-year-old confirmed that her “final MRI” showed the colloid cyst, which was removed in November 2024, is “not coming back”. The tumour was discovered when she underwent a health check-up as part of her menopause advocacy work.
She recently appeared on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place podcast and said: “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.”
McCall explained that her goal is to live life without regrets and encourage others to do the same and her only concern about death is how her loved ones will cope.
Thinking back on the time her tumour was discovered, she recalled: “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.”
“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.”
Davina said she realised that they would “miss her” but ultimately “they would be okay”. The TV presenter was comforted with the fact that she “could go to sleep on the operating table and know they were all there to help here”.
“I can let go of the outcome and it was the best gift. I am not afraid of dying.”
Since Davina’s diagnosis and surgery she has seemingly made a full recovery and has returned to work. McCall, the presenter of reality dating programme My Mum, Your Dad, has been a long-standing advocate for women’s health issues.
She has hosted documentaries such as Sex, Myths And The Menopause and Davina McCall’s Pill Revolution, focusing on contraception.
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