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British TV personality, Davina McCall, who antecedently hosted Big Brother, shared her diagnosis with a rare encephalon tumor and asked fans to “pray for me.”
By Sasha Wayman Nov 15, 2024 5:43 PMTags
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Davina McCall is opening up astir her health battle.
The British TV host shared that she has been diagnosed with a benign encephalon tumor, besides known arsenic a colloid cyst, and that she volition necessitate surgery to person it removed.
The information “is precise rare,” McCall explained successful a video shared to Instagram Nov. 15. “And truthful I somewhat enactment my caput successful the soil for a while, and past I saw rather a fewer neurosurgeons. I got tons of opinions, and I realized that I person to get it taken out.”
The former Big Brother host—who shares children Holly, 22, Tilly, 21, and Chester, 17, with ex-husband Matthew Robinson—noted that she initially recovered retired astir the information a fewer months backmost acknowledgment to a wellness scan that was offered to her by a institution that she had antecedently done a menopause speech for.
While the results of the scan were a implicit shock, McCall, 57, knew close distant that surgery was her champion option.
“It's 14 millimeters wide, and it needs to travel out,” the Masked Singer presenter continued successful the video, “because if it grows, it would beryllium bad. So I'm having it removed via a craniotomy. They spell done the apical of my caput present and done the 2 halves of my encephalon to the middle. Get the cyst. Empty it. Take it out. Bob’s your uncle.”
While McCall shared that she remains successful “good spirits,” she asked viewers to “say a supplication for me.”
Now, it seems that McCall has already undergone the procedure, and that her health is headed successful a affirmative direction, arsenic her spouse Michael Douglas wrote connected her societal media alongside the video from McCall.
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“Hey everyone. Michael here,” helium explained successful the caption. “@davinamccall volition beryllium ‘off grid’ for a spot portion she recovers from this encephalon operation. She is successful large signifier and successful precise bully hands.”
While she recovers, the hairstylist promised to support posting updates to her societal media page, and took a infinitesimal to convey fans for their continued support.
“I’ll I bash the unusual update from her relationship present for anyone interested,” helium continued. “I’m definite she’ll work each the comments erstwhile she’s capable to truthful consciousness escaped to nonstop love. The enactment of radical is amazingly powerful. Have a large time everyone. Michael xxx.”
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