Pal locked me in car to get me to quit heroin
TV’S Davina recalls life-saving intervention
Sarah, left, with Davina
MARK JEFFERIES
Showbiz Editor
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 muchneeded 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’.”
I was a bit of a mess ...nobody wanted to hang out DAVINA MCCALL ON HER DRUG ADDICTION