i’m used to big bother
drink, drugs, divorce & family rift.. how davina toughs it out
DAVINA Mccall has told how she feels she can deal with anything life throws at her after her tough past.
The ex-big Brother host, 50, who is divorcing her husband of 17 years, even believes that challenging times are necessary.
She said: “You need to experience difficulty to learn how to be resilient. If you haven’t, the minute you do it will hit you like a freight train as you’ve never been given the tools to deal with it.”
Davina’s mum Florence walked out when she was three and half-sister Caroline died of cancer in 2012 aged 50.
The TV star smoked heroin in her 20s and battled alcoholism. She said: “When I think of all the stuff with my mum in my childhood, the drugs and the alcohol, my sister dying... “All those make you think, ‘Throw anything at me, I’ll be OK’. It might be hard, but I do feel I could deal with anything.” Davina, clean since age 25, has denied paying Matthew Robertson €2.8million for a quick divorce. The mum of three, who has a €3.5million home in Sussex, told Red magazine: “I’m in a good place. When I was 30 I was like, ‘50 is going to be terrible, I’ll be in Scholl shoes. “‘I’m never going to wear a bikini again.’ I obsess about busting every myth. I’m probably the happiest with my body that I ever have been.”
■ Full interview in June issue of Red, out Wednesday, May 2.