Superstar hairdresser Michael nevertheless insisted Davina would really feel higher as soon as she lastly returned to work. Davina nevertheless admits she was initially reluctant about returning to tv.

Talking to The Solar, Davina defined: “I believed: ‘You do not perceive, you do not know how I really feel.’ That is what anxious individuals really feel when anyone is attempting to make them confront their worry.”

Davina’s new BBC courting present, Stranded On Honeymoon Island, was filmed in March. And while she was initially anxious about returning to work, she admits it made her really feel “helpful”.

She added: “After I would achieved my first day again at work, I referred to as Michael, and I used to be sobbing from the automobile: ‘I’m actually sorry I have been pushing again on you, however you might be so proper. I actually wanted this.’

“I wanted to have goal once more. I used to be so completely happy to see the workforce from Lengthy Misplaced Household. I beloved working. It made me really feel helpful.”

Davina, who shares kids Holly, 23, Tilly, 21, and Chester, 18, with ex-husband Matthew Robertson, instructed Good Housekeeping that she requested Michael to remain “plugged in” to their lives ought to she not survive her well being battle.

She stated: “I believed ‘I’ve to return to phrases with the truth that I won’t make it, so what do I’ve to do to make that OK?’ I needed to let go of the end result and give you the chance to fall asleep with out the abject horror of the thought of dying.”

Davina continued: “I stated to Michael [Douglas, her partner] ‘If I am going, I actually need you to maintain plugged in to the youngsters [Holly, Tilly and Chester [who she shares with her ex-husband Matthew Robertson] and keep of their lives.

“We have been each scared, however we have been sincere and instructed one another that. It made the entire thing much less daunting, understanding that all the pieces was out on the desk.”

Davina says she wrote the kids letters and ready a will in case she died. In April nevertheless she found the cyst “just isn’t coming again”. She described the restoration because the “hardest factor I’ve ever been via”.

Based on the NHS, non-cancerous mind tumours are extra frequent in individuals over the age of fifty, and signs embrace complications, imaginative and prescient issues and drowsiness, and a few will be “tough to take away with out damaging surrounding tissue”.