Davina McCall has revealed her feelings at being diagnosed with cancer as the presenter says it was like a ‘punch in the throat’
Davina opened up on her health woes
Davina McCall made a candid admission as she opened up on her cancer diagnosis. The upbeat presenter revealed how her health scare left her feeling like she had a “punch in the throat”.
It came after she had already had surgery on her brain tumour. She was hoping that 2025 would see her focus on her recovery after having surgery on her initial diagnosis. However, Davina was told she had breast cancer, two months after having a mammogram.
Speaking to Jamie Theakston on his Heart Breakfast show, Davina said: “It was just quite a difficult year and in October interestingly two years almost to the month where I found out I had a brain tumour, I got breast cancer, and it felt like being punched in the face by the universe.
Davina opened up to Jamie
“I just thought what, I was just about beginning to feel like myself again, and I had a mammogram in the August and this was the October, and I found a lump. So just don’t think, “oh I had a mammogram recently, it can’t be that”. It could be. So just check, if you’ve got something, go get it looked at. It takes seconds.”
In late 2024, Davina, 58, revealed that a rare benign tumour, known as a colloid cyst, had been discovered during a health check. It came as part of her menopause advocacy work.
Following brain surgery, Davina said she experienced symptoms similar to Alzheimer’s. It was something that had concerned radio star Jamie at the time.
“[My memory] was absolutely mad,” she told him. “I thought I had advanced Alzheimer’s, I didn’t know I had an operation, I thought I was in America because I was in a place called the Cleveland Clinic.”
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