Davina McCall has shared how she worked through crippling brain fog which became so bad she was scared to drive in the dark and would often forget the names of people she was interviewing on live TV. The 54-year-old mum-of-three spoke candidly about her experience with the menopause and perimenopause in an attempt to raise awareness of lesser known symptoms, and to warn other women.
The Masked Singer judge told Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas on The One Show how when she was 43 she began suffering horrendous symptoms, at the time unaware of the cause. “The reason why I’ve done this and the reason I’ve spoken out about it so publicly is because when it happened to me I didn’t know anything about it,” McCall said, referring to her new book, Menopausing: The Positive Roadmap to Your Second Spring.
McCall said at the time she “didn’t even know the word perimenopause”, which means around menopause. “I was 43, I’d got hyperthyroidism, and if you’ve got that then you can go into the perimenopause a bit early,” she continued. You can get more celebrity news and other story updates straight to your inbox by subscribing to our newsletters here.
