Davina McCall

On that, Mel, I'm going to come over here and hug you.

Full consent.

Full consent.

do you mind talking about your dad a bit sure can I can I talk to you about that I feel like this this podcast is about begin again and lots of people that watch this might be going through a phase of their life where life changes quite a lot I think when

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.