HEARTBREAKING NEWS: Tragic Warning from a Doctor Before Davina McCall’s Heartbreaking D3ath.
Davina McCall made an ‘end-of-life checklist’ (Image: Getty)
Davina McCall once admitted to making an end-of-life checklist after being diagnosed with a brain tumour in her 50s. The former Big Brother star went for a routine health check as part of her menopause awareness campaign and doctors discovered a growth on her brain, which they told her was benign – but Davina received a “wake-up call” from a neurosurgeon, who told her she could die if it wasn’t operated on quickly.
The surgeon warned her: “It’s a big tumour. It can’t grow anymore, or you’ll get water on the brain. If you’re on a plane, there would have to be an emergency landing.” Davina set out to calm herself down before undergoing surgery to remove the tumour, and a checklist ended up being “the best gift”.
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She explained at Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place Festival: “I needed to get my brain in the right place where I could be calm before the operation.
“I had to make sure that my kids were going to be OK if I did not make it. That is all I really cared about. I knew my partner, Michael, would be OK as he is a whole person, but I was really worried about my kids.”
She added: “I went into forensic thinking about my children and where they were at in their lives, what stage they were at. You are only happy as your unhappiest child.
“But I realised that they would be great, they would miss me, and I want to be with them, but they would be fine.
Davina worried about her kids ahead of her surgery (Image: Getty)
“I felt 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.”
She said of her tumour journey: “I am not afraid of dying anymore. It was the biggest journey of my life. It was an amazing time.
“I have been on a massive life journey, and I have been through terrible struggles. That is where the learning comes from. If something really hard happens now, I know it is a good thing.”
