Having somebody pull my judo trousers down at a competition when I was seven. And finding I wasn’t wearing any pants.
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A gazillion years ago I was in Gucci with Melanie Blatt, and I attempted to sit down on a chair that wasn’t there. I did a full-on stuntwoman backward roll, landed in a ball of the floor and laughed so hard I wet myself. Everybody in the shop moved to a different section.
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