Davina McCall says she's angry over brain tumour taking 'control'

TV Presenter Davina McCall has spoken publically for the archetypal clip astir the "anger" she felt implicit the benign encephalon tumour that she was diagnosed with past year, which she said had "taken power of me".

The 57-year-old erstwhile Big Brother big revealed successful November that a colloid cyst had been recovered during a wellness check-up arsenic portion of her menopause advocacy work.

Speaking connected her podcast Begin Again, a tearful McCall recalled however a scan had revealed she had a uncommon benignant of tumour that "very, precise rarely" tin "cause abrupt death".

She had surgery, spending clip successful intensive care, earlier recovering astatine home.

"I felt similar this happening had taken power of maine and I was truthful aggravated astir that," she told businessman and chap podcaster Steve Bartlett successful the latest episode.

"I couldn't fto it go, I was like, 'How situation you power my regular beingness similar this and marque maine consciousness each time similar I'm successful danger?'"

Non-cancerous encephalon tumours are much communal successful radical implicit the property of 50, and symptoms tin see headaches, imaginativeness problems and drowsiness, according to the NHS website.

Some tin beryllium hard to region without damaging surrounding tissue. And Chemotherapy oregon radiotherapy tin besides beryllium utilized if the country is not successful.

McCall said she named her tumour Jeffrey, due to the fact that she doesn't person immoderate friends of that name, and adjacent threw it a day party.

She recovered astatine location with the assistance of her partner, personage hairdresser Michael Douglas.

She went connected to accidental that portion she had ne'er wanted immoderate sympathy herself, she present has a "newfound tremendous sympathy for radical who person benign encephalon tumours".

"I person had truthful galore radical accidental to me: 'Well, astatine slightest it was benign.' And you think: 'You person nary thought that benign encephalon tumours tin inactive termination you.'

"It's just, you don't cognize erstwhile it's going to happen," she added. "It could hap tomorrow, it could hap successful years' time. It's antithetic to cancer, but it is besides awful. A benign does not mean fine."

"Living with that uncertainty is beauteous terrifying," she continued.

She said she "did not privation to unrecorded with the accent of reasoning immoderate minute... I could beryllium taken retired by something."

A longtime advocator of women's health, McCall was fixed given a peculiar designation grant astatine the National Television Awards past twelvemonth aft having been awarded an MBE successful 2023 for services to broadcasting.

Nowadays the big of the ITV dating amusement My Mum, Your Dad, McCall said she had to get her volition successful bid pursuing her diagnosis and adjacent created a WhatsApp radical to guarantee her household would "all find a mode done if I didn't marque it".

She added: "I did spell and code my volition and marque definite that was airtight. I talked to Michael astir my wishes. I wrote letters of wishes to each the children and enactment those successful my will."

While the acquisition has "not changed maine forever", she noted: "But I've learned things astir myself that I would ne'er person learned without this operation."

She thinks that successful the adjacent aboriginal she volition presumption the acquisition arsenic "one of the top blessings of my life".

The star, who precocious shocked viewers by appearing successful a blonde wig connected the Masked Singer, urged podcast listeners to "write your bucket database now".