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.
Hasn’t happened yet, it’s coming.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 11 April 2026 source ↗
“Let’s face it, you’re not Ingrid Bergman.” I was 19 and he was a potential boyfriend. My only thought at the time was: “I’m not?”
This was said about me in a Radio 1 focus group: “I don’t pay my licence fee to hear scummy northerners.”
Why is your nose so wonky?
On X, I am regularly called a traitor, a fraud, a grifter, a weakling, a narcissist, a coward and a child molester.
Getting even older.
Martin Sheen, simply the kindest and most fun-loving person and serious activist I’ve ever known. If Jesus was alive today he’d point to Martin Sheen and say, “That’s what I was talking about.”
Inability to listen.
My lack of foreign language skills.
People finding out my greatest fear.
Showing up is at least 90% of it.
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