The Masked Singer judge Davina McCall has revealed the emotional letters she wrote to her kids after fears she would die during her tumour operation.
The TV legend shares three children – Holly, 23, Tilly, 21, and Chester, 18 – with ex-husband Matthew Robertson.
In November, Davina revealed a rare colloid cyst was found in her brain. As a result, she had to undergo life-saving surgery to avoid the tumour growing.
Davina McCall wrote letters of wishes to her children before her brain tumour surgery
In her first interview since the operation, Davina confessed to podcaster friend Steven Bartlett on her show Begin Again that she wrote individual letters to her children after she feared she wouldn’t survive.
“What I wanted to do was to try and find a way that they would all find a way through if I didn’t make it. They make me very proud,” she said.
I wanted to try and find a way that they would all find a way through if I didn’t make it.
Davina also said she “wrote letters of wishes to all the children, and put those in my will”.
Steven also brought up a WhatsApp group that Davina invited him into where her friends and family kept up to date with what was going on.
With so many adoring friends, Stephen admitted his “first observation” was how big the WhatsApp group was. He said: “I was like: ‘Jesus Christ, she’s got some friends!'”
Davina revealed her motive behind the group was incase if anything bad happened, she didn’t want people to find out through the papers.
“I was kind of thinking, in a way, I want them to hear good things. Who do I want to hear the news first before anybody else gets it? And that was my list of people.
“It was, you know, people like you, who I work with, who I really care about. And then there were obviously my family members. And it was quite nice putting that list together because I thought, ‘I have so many people I really care about in my life.'”
‘I called my brain tumour Jeffrey’
Davina revealed she “called her brain tumour Jeffery” as she “didn’t have any personal friends” called that.
As she was recovering from the operation, she and her hairdresser boyfriend Michael Douglas “threw a Jeffrey happy birthday party with friends”.
The party included Davina and Michael playing the piano, singing songs and giving speeches.
She added: “It was good it happened to me because I am robust mentally and I can handle it.”
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