Davina McCall has revealed she is undergoing a brain operation after doctors discovered a benign tumour.
The 57-year-old television presenter said in a video posted on Instagram that the tumour was a colloid cyst, which she described as “very rare”.
She said the chances of having it were “three in a million,” and that she had discovered it a few months ago, after a company offered her a health scan in return for giving a menopause talk.
She admitted: “I slightly put my head in the sand for a while, and then I saw quite a few neurosurgeons, I got lots of opinions. I realised that I have to get it taken out.”
Describing it as “big for the space” she said it was 14mm wide, and “needed to come out, because if it grows it would be bad.”
She explained that she would have it removed via a craniotomy, describing the procedure: “They go through the top of my head here and through the two halves of my brain to the middle.
“They get the cyst, take it out, empty it, and Bob’s your uncle”.
She added: “Say a prayer for me, I am in good spirits”.
McCall, went on: “I’m OK. It’s been up and down. Obviously we’ve been through a lot”.
She said she would be in hospital for around nine days, but during her recovery, she’d be “off my phone for a while”.
Joking and smiling, she urged fans “not to worry about me,” admitting, “I’m doing that enough!”
She went on to say: “I’m not worrying too much, and I am in a good space, and I have all the faith in the world in my surgeon and his team, and I’m handing the reins over to him.
“He knows what he’s doing, and I’m going to do the getting better bit after”.
She signed off saying, “see you on the other side”.
Writing a post alongside her video on her Instagram page, her partner – hairdresser Michael Douglas – said she was in “great shape” and in “very good hands”.
“The support of people is amazingly powerful,” he wrote. He said he would be adding “the odd update from her account” and said she would read the comments when she was able to do so.
He also appeared in the video, saying he would “have his eye on [Davina]” adding, “she’s in very good hands”.
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