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.
Somebody wrote that my voice was more numbing than novocaine.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 May 2024 source ↗
It’s that bad, I’d never repeat it. I’ll just say it was particularly cruel and incredibly racist. It was somebody that I used to date, at the end of the relationship, and it hurt very deeply.
Apart from stuff on social media, an ex-partner telling me I’m unlovable.
The melanoma has returned in your lung.
Go back to where you came from.
Nothing. I love getting old – I love the freedom it allows you.
As a great songwriter.
Going on stage and saying, “Good evening Lyon!” I was in Marseille.
Quiet, noisy, androgynous.
Not being in pain – I have back problems and had shoulder surgery just before Christmas and there isn’t a day that goes by when I am not in pain.
Uncontrollable, wonderful.
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