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.
“Your career will be over if you have the baby.”To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why? My parents, for my teenage years. I tried to run away when I was 15. We lived in a fishing village in France and, with my boyfriend, I headed to Spain to sell arts and crafts on the beach. Mum came and took me home.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 July 2023 source ↗
“I would love to go on a date with you, but I’d be too embarrassed.”
“You’re a reasonably intelligent girl,” by a teacher, and it drove me crazy and made me want to get into Oxford.
I’m not interested.
I can’t disclose that because it’s not suitable for public airing, but it was truly awful; they’ve since said worse.
Horrible gigs at the beginning, when no one’s interested.
I would put the brain that I have now into my 20-year-old body.
I haven’t stopped crying since Glastonbury, because I’m on a massive comedown.
Just being remembered at all would be great.
Now, with time and wisdom you know your happy places.
David Hasselhoff, Rita Wilson, Adam Lambert, Fran Healy, Chaka Khan, Jason Manford
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