Davina McCall: ‘I’m fine. Really. It just hurts so much’
April 3rd, 2008 admin Posted in News |
How are things with your mum? A gentle question, but it stops Davina McCall dead. The smiley, quick-witted woman who has been chatting away at the Groucho Club in Soho for half an hour or so goes very quiet.
“Erm,” she says after a while. “With my real mum?”
Yes, sorry. The one who gave you up at the age of three, I want to say. The one who moved to another country rather than raise you, but who told a reporter last summer – in an interview drenched in bitterness and self-pity – that it is she who feels abandoned.
“I think….” The words come out slowly. Davina, calm in the emotional chaos of all those evictions on the television show she hosts, Big Brother, seems hardly able to speak. This star who came in wearing a long, fluffy coat of bright green fake fur has shrunk into her chair. The gift she has for keeping up eye contact, making you feel like you’re her new best friend, has vanished; she is staring at the floor, and I realise she is nearly crying. “It is … sad.”
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