Davina McCall and her partner Michael Douglas have come to terms with the unusual way they frequently wait until their tears stop pouring before giving them hugs.
When their partner begins to cry, many couples embrace. However, Davina, who recently had a brain tumor removed, claims that Michael and Davina approach pain and emotion differently.
The ITV star claims that the two “hold space” for one another and believe it’s important to let them out and feel their emotions. In a new interview, Davina says: “Michael does for me… he holds space for me. Even if they actually freak him out or make him uncomfortable, he still has room for me to feel my feelings. In any way, he is not dependent. It’s so nice.
” He’s taught me so much around that, like… me and him, if he needs to feel something, I don’t hug him. I don’t try and take it away from him. I go, ‘ Feel it’.
“And he affected me in this way as well. So, if I was crying, he’d sit with me next to me, but he wouldn’t touch me or hug me. He would go”, Feel it. “And I would let it out. And then at the end, he’d give me an enormous hug”.
Davina also praised Michael’s assistance with her brain tumor journey. Talking to Steven Bartlett on the Begin Again podcast, she adds: “He said to me that day when I was really upset that, ‘ You know, I’ve been in training for this moment. I’ve been… When you need me, I’ve been learning how to step up. And I’m ready. I’ve got you'”.
In 2019, Davina and Michael the hairdresser started dating and are currently considering getting married. He has been a huge help to her as she battled to have the tumor removed at the end of last year. Davina, the host of shows like Long Lost Family and The Masked Singer, was given a free health scan after giving a talk on menopause when she discovered the colloid cyst.
She then had to decide when to have the tumor removed because the operation had risks, but “very rarely it can also cause sudden death.” The tumour “had taken hold of me,” Davina then claims, “every day like I’m in danger” and that initially irritated her.
However, she eventually accepted it and used it as a coping mechanism. She even organized parties for Jeffrey to try to remain upbeat and to minimize the significance of the tumor. Then, Davina had to choose the best time to perform the operation and comprehend the risks involved.
She “quite quickly” began making plans with her partner Michael after discussing her own mortality. Davina explains: “I said, ‘ Look, I’ve got to plan for it if it doesn’t go according to plan’.
” When I’d spoken to the doctors, they talked about things like stroke, epilepsy, these being risks. There were many possible risks associated with a bleed, such as a bleed in an artery or blood vessel in the brain. And obviously, because of my age, you know, I’m fifty-seven.
“That was another factor that I felt.” I was thinking, you know, ‘ Would you rather have brain surgery now, or if it grew in eight years ‘ time, would you want to have it in your mid-to-late sixties? If you’re otherwise fit and healthy, wouldn’t it be better to do it right away? So yes, we had that talk quite soon. And I did go to my will to make sure it was secure. Michael and I discussed my wishes. I included wishes in my will for all the children I had.
“And I made sure that when I went to sleep before the operation, I could trust in Kevin (O’Neill, her neurosurgeon) and let go of the outcome. And I really got there. Like, I really went to sleep and thought, ‘ Everything will be okay, whatever happens. ‘ And it felt like I’d climbed a mountain, but it was a good mountain to climb, you know? Like, I really meant it”.
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