The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A fixed Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Why is your nose so wonky?
The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 January 2026 source ↗
We’ve run out of champagne.
I was going to a bar with friends and there was a line at the door. I’d been there before and asked the doorman to skip the line. He said, “Oh, I remember you, you were in Almost Famous, weren’t you?” And I said, “Yeah.” And he goes, “Yeah, get back in line.”
I love you but I hate your lifestyle.
On X, I am regularly called a traitor, a fraud, a grifter, a weakling, a narcissist, a coward and a child molester.
The Bare Necessities.
Becoming a father.
I love and admire Julia Roberts, one of our Running Wild guests, for the way she has a few close friends, is loyal to her family, doesn’t believe in all the fame stuff and can laugh at herself.
Light of the Almighty in my heart.
Resilience, courage and kindness, as compassionate points to follow.
Faith-filled, never-give-up man.
Ed Harris, Graydon Carter, Belinda Carlisle, Rose Ayling-Ellis, Toby Stephens, Zack Polanski
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