Davina McCall: I've told my daughter heroin is fantastic

Big Brother host Davina McCall wants to be honest with her children

Davina McCall has revealed that she told her 8-year-old daughter that takingheroin was 'fantastic'.

The Big Brother host - who battled drug addiction as a teenager - says she explained to Holly that the illegal susbstance felt so good that she quickly became addicted. 

'Recently, because of something onRadio 1, we had to have a drugs conversation,' says Davina, 42.

'Holly asked me: "What do they feel like?"' If I told her that heroin didn't feel nice and then she tried it and it did, she'll think: "Mum was lying."

'But if I say: "Heroin is so fantastic you'll want to take it again, then you'll 

get addicted, which is horrible," that's honest and more frightening.'

Davina McCall has 3 children with husband Matthew Robertson

Davina hopes being candid will help her kids turn to her when they have a problem. 

'If you have an open relationship with your
children, those really massive conversations, drugs, sex, alcohol,
happen naturally,' she tells Easy Living. 

She is also mum to Tilly, 6, and Chester, 3, with husband Matthew Robertson.