Davina McCall revealed that the “brain fog” she experienced years ago was so severe that she feared she could be developing dementia and lose her job. The presenter, who is now undergoing surgery for a brain tumour, described her brain fog in 2021 while discussing her menopause symptoms. She told Fabulous: “I remember sitting on the drive and looking at some grass, thinking, ‘What’s the word for that?’ I thought it was some kind of dementia.
“It was only a couple of years later, when it was affecting my work, that I went to my gynaecologist, who said I needed hormone replacement. I thought I was going to lose my job.” Davina, 57, was put on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and this mitigated her symptoms.
On Friday morning, the My Mum, Your Dad presenter revealed to fans that she has been taken in for surgery after doctors found a tumour on her brain. In a video posted to her Instagram account, Davina said: “A few months ago I did a menopause talk for a company and they offered me a health scan in return, which I thought I was going to ace, but it turned out I had a benign brain tumour called a colloid cyst, which is very rare. "Three in a million! So 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. "It’s big for the space – it fills the space. It’s 14mm wide.
And it needs to come out because if it grows it would be bad.” The former Big Broth.