Davina McCall’s husband helped her deal with the shock of her breast cancer diagnosis.
Davina McCall praises husband for helping her cope with breast cancer diagnosis
The 58-year-old Masked Singer star announced in November 2025 she had undergone surgery to remove a cancerous lump from her breast - which had not spread as it was caught early - and Davina praised her hair stylist spouse Michael Douglas for helping her to cope.
According to The Express, she said: "He was like, 'okay, so look, I'm just letting you know if you if you want to kind of get angry with me or just like, tell me you're angry. Like, you know, I'm here’.
"I was like, 'I'm not angry. It's fine. It's meant to be. I've obviously got to learn something', [I was] trying to be positive, right?
"And he said, 'But if you were angry, it's okay. You can, you can be angry'."
Davina admitted she worried at first about sharing her true feelings, but thanks to Michael she was able to process her emotions.
She said: "Then I got really angry, and I got the cushions out and the pillow [punching them] and that was quite therapeutic.”
Meanwhile, Davina previously revealed that her cancer served as a wake-up call and she is cutting back on work as a result.
During an appearance on the Miss Me? podcast, she said: “I'm going to work a four-day week.
“I feel so much better now about my life and trying to get it more balanced.
“So now, really, as I hit this stage of my life, I want to take more care of myself. That is my latest project: me, because I can't take care of anyone else if I'm not okay.”
Davina added she had spent “all [her] life” running away from change.
She explained: “Change is something that all my life, I spent running away from.
“I absolutely hated it. Change was something that really frightened me. I always loved the status quo, knowing what I was doing and feeling safe in that.
“What has happened, actually, is that I have realised that all my really big growth has come from change – and often quite painful change.”
Just a year before her cancer diagnosis, Davina announced she would be undergoing surgery to remove a “benign brain tumour”.
Davina said all of her health issues - including her previous addictions to alcohol and drugs - had served as “breakthroughs” in her mind.
She said: “I had an amazing breakthrough when I got clean in the early nineties.
“I had another huge breakthrough after I had my brain tumour removed. I realised that I needed to de-stress my life.
“Interestingly, I realised that - but then the breast cancer, which I thought was a very, very frightening thing, made me realise that I really, really had to put that into place. And I have now.”
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