Davina McCall compared her severe menopausal symptoms to ‘quitting heroin’ when she felt ‘hot flashes’ after waking up to a wet pillow.
The TV presenter, 54, who now uses HRT to help manage her symptoms, recounted how having night sweats caused her to relive her days of drug dependence while in 20 years old.
Davina, who went through menopause at the age of 44, told The Sun’s Fabulous Magazine: ‘One of the best things about quitting heroin is that I never wake up in wet sheets again. It doesn’t matter how bad life is, it’s never been as bad as when I took heroin. ‘
Comparison: Davina McCall compared her severe menopausal symptoms to ‘quitting heroin’ as she felt ‘rebellious’ after waking up to a wet pillow
She explained: ‘It was a sweaty prison. You’re always in a state of: ‘I have to try and figure it out’, or: ‘I’m weaning myself and I feel horrible.’
‘When I stopped, I remember waking up on dry sheets for a week in a row and just thinking: ‘This is the best feeling in the world. ‘
Davina was shocked to discover she had a wet bed again: ‘So when I woke up in a Garnier scene in Prague in 2012 with a wet pillow and sheets so wet I had to get them towels, I thought: ‘What’s going on?’ I feel uncomfortable.
The Big Brother star revealed her skin looked ‘terrible’ from sweat and dehydration but never guessed it was menopause.
Symptoms: The TV presenter, 54, who is now taking HRT to help manage her symptoms, recounted how having night sweats caused her to reminisce about her days of being dependent on ghosts drugs at the age of 20
She explained that both her work and personal life were negatively affected by the symptoms because she didn’t feel like herself.
Davina explores menopause in a documentary titled Sex, Mind and the Menopause – a sequel to her 2021 show Sex, Myths and the Menopause.
The show explored more of the thorny issues raised in her first documentary – including the myths about menopause and the taboos surrounding HRT.
It also takes a deeper look at whether women are being marginalized, laid off or forced to work part-time when suffering from menopausal symptoms at work.
‘I’m hurt’: In March, Davina recalled how she abused drugs to ‘fill the hole’ left by her late mother Florence Kock
The TV star shares Holly, 19, Tilly, 17, and Chester, 14, with ex Matthew Robertson, having previously credited ex-boyfriend Eric with helping her overcome her drug addiction.
In the past, she explained that as a wisdom tooth restoration addict, she doesn’t even like taking over-the-counter medications for headaches, so she avoids going to the doctor.
Davina tells how she exercised and took herbal remedies to help but these didn’t ‘cut it’, tells how she planned to ‘get over’ before finally being educated on menopause, with a private gynecologist eventually prescribing HRT for her.
Arrested: Davina previously confessed after drinking a drug cocktail in her 20s, she woke up in the hospital, and within a year of her death she was finally clean (pictured in 1995 )
In March, Davina recounted how she abused drugs to ‘fill the hole’ left by her late mother Florence Kock.
The presenter reflected on feeling ‘unsettled and unsettled’ after her mother – who died in 2008 – told her she was going on holiday for two weeks, but did not return and left her with her grandmother when she is only four years old.
In an interview with DJ Fat Tony on his show The Recovery, the broadcaster admitted she ‘kissed my brain cells goodbye’ when she used substances like heroin, speed and grass rabid as a teenager, before she sought help more than 20 years ago.
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Source: | Dailymail.co.uk
