Yahoo News Davina McCall reveals 'traumatic' childhood experience forgotten at airport by mum
Former Big Brother host admitting to being so afraid she 'wet herself' and to often being 'forgotten' about
Davina McCall has opened up about events from her childhood surrounding her complicated relationship with her mother that left her feeling traumatised as an infant.
McCall, 55, opened up in a new interview about how she would travel alone as a three-year-old to see her late mother Florence Kock.
The former Big Brother host admitted that her mum would "often forget" to collect her from the airport after her journey from England to France and that she remembered being so scared during a flight that she wet herself.
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McCall grew up in Surrey with her grandparents after she was left in the care of her grandmother Pippy McCall and would only see her mother during school holidays.
Speaking to the Sunday Times travel supplement Davina said: "The first trip I remember was very traumatic. I was three or four and too scared to ask for help. I wet myself on the flight. My mother would often forget to pick me up at the airport and I’d be waiting and waiting before somebody would call to remind her. That was our normal. I would stay with my Spanish grandmother, French businessman grandfather and my big sister, who my mum had when she was 16."
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The popular TV star described her late mother - who passed away in South Africa in 2008 - as "absolutely bonkers, with no boundaries."
She also described how her mother would take her clubbing in Paris at the age of 12 and wear high heels and makeup.
McCall has previously recalled how she even used drugs with her mum on two occasions at a young age.
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Chatting to Steven Bartlett on his Diary of a CEO podcast earlier this year she recalled the drug usage Kock and her older half-sister, Caroline Baday.
She said: "Drugs at 12 with my mum. Smoking weed at 12. I did coke with my mum at 15. I did it with my sister at 14."
She added: "Me and my mum only did drugs twice. I mean, I know that's twice times too many in my book, but I don't want to give this impression that she and I were taking tonnes of drugs together cause that would be a false impression."
