Davina McCall

you're an adult and you're beginning to look after your parents.

Yeah.

And it always seems to happen at a time in our lives when there's a load of other stuff going on as well.

We might have teenagers who are struggling or we might have illness and then parents.

Yeah.

you know having had like the golden years of 30s 40s you know career and marriage and yeah little kids little kids it's like the glory years and then it we hit a pretty hard time yeah how to navigate that and you were saying your mum who sounded like she was a driving force in your family completely that you get a lot of your fire yeah she was she was an extraordinary woman and um

Were they close?

I mean, so hard to have that many years together.

And then... And then one of you go.

Even though he knew she was ill, she'd lived with it for a long time.

Did he have signs of dementia before she died?

Paranoia.

Paranoia.

Yeah.

Can I tell you a weird thing?

I understand a bit about that because I woke up with no short-term memory and it's come back very, very slowly over three months.

And I struggled with all of those feelings when I was just out of hospital.

Yeah.

I got paranoid.

I got insecure.