McGee spoke to Newstalk ZB's Francesca Rudkin today, revealing how her life had changed since the pandemic began - and what she thought of New Zealand's new policy for Covid nurses.
McGee said it was "amazing" to be back home.
"It's been a long time coming but it feels really good to be here," she told Rudkin.
McGee revealed that she was in the shower when she first heard that she had been name-dropped by her famous patient.
"I jumped out and saw my phone going berserk," McGee said, adding it came "out of nowhere".
She said her "world exploded" and believed the popularity of her story was that it offered a bit of hope and humanity amidst the omnipresent Covid gloom that dominated the news cycle at the time.
She said the public glare almost overwhelmed her but family stepped in to manage the media interest while she worked on to battle the pandemic in a UK hospital.
McGee told Rudkin that the second wave of Covid was worse than the first wave that caught Boris Johnson.
She said it was relentless, adding that at times "it didn't seem that there was a way out."
Comparing the two country's approaches to Covid, McGee said health bosses in the UK had to take "desperate measures" to keep staff at work during the pandemic - but NZ's recent decision to allow Covid-positive health workers to treat patients "boggles the mind".
Critical healthcare employees can now work while Covid positive, but only as a last resort and with strict conditions about how they spend their day.
Changes have also been made to section 70 of the health order so critical workers who provide a health service or managed isolation or quarantine service can leave isolation for work.
