Davina McCall has told how she quit hard drugs after her best friend locked her in a car and confronted her about her habit.
The TV presenter said the much-needed intervention came after years of taking heroin that left her the “subject of every conversation”.
Davina, 56, admitted going off the rails and using drugs on a regular basis to try and fill a “hole” in her life. But she said she knew she had to get clean when her best pal Sarah Hiscox stepped in. Former Big Brother host Davina said: “It was a bit of a mess and [with heroin] I was very rigid and boundaried about it.
“I left my job because that was the problem – I got worse. I left my boyfriend because that was the problem – I got worse… and then I was just left with me. Nobody really wanted to hang out with me. I was one of those people that used to fall asleep at dinner parties.
“[Sarah] got me in a car and we were going to go and see Santana and then she locked the car door. She went, ‘I’m not taking you to Santana, I just wanted to talk to you’. I’d moved back in with my mum and dad because I had no money and no friends left. I was really kind of just at rock bottom and [Sarah] went, ‘I know you’ve been lying to me, I know you’ve been telling me that you’re clean but I can see you’re not’.
“The thing she said to me was, ‘You are the topic of conversation at every dinner I go to, every coffee I have with friends… everywhere I go, you are what we are talking about’.” Although Davina said her initial reaction was to tell her friend to “f*** off”, she went on to call an addict in recovery to ask if they could meet up.
She told the Stirring It Up podcast: “She was the first person I thought of. I cried all night, woke up the next morning, went straight to [Sarah’s] office and took her a bunch of s***ty, cheap flowers as I didn’t have any money and went, ‘I’m not expecting you to believe me, but I do want to get clean’.”
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