What is the worst 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.

Recorded Adam Lambert said elsewhere, not written here
“You’re never going to make it.” It was some guy I was dating. I had the last laugh.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 25 February 2023 source ↗

Others on this question

View all 130 →
“You pinko!” by a Tory minister signing off at the end of an interview with me during the EU referendum campaign.
Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 9 March 2024 source ↗
Robert Carlyle Scottish actor
On Angela's Ashes, Alan Parker said to me, 'You've got the Bafta, just get in the door.' I was walking along the street to go into a shop and he saw me milking it a bit. It was a really good piece of advice.
Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 23 February 2008 source ↗

More from Adam Lambert

View profile →

More on failure & regret

Also answered this

Rita Wilson, Jason Manford, Melanie Blatt, Olly Alexander, Bruce Dickinson, Richard Coles

Search the directory for somebody in particular.

Explore further

Report this answer