The question
How close have you come to dying?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A recurring Guardian Q&A prompt asked directly across respondents and years.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
A plane to San Francisco, 25 years ago. There was a bang and I looked out of the window and saw flames coming out of one of the engines. We zoomed down to the airport below.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 24 July 2021 source ↗
Near head-on collision driving from Oklahoma to California back in the 70s.
I was nearly hit by an enormous gold-fibreglass cherub in a shopping centre. It fell five storeys and smashed into a thousand pieces about 4ft away from me.
Falling down a mine shaft in New Mexico while filming.
When a pal grabbed hold of me as I fell into an unbanistered stairwell at a rave. Would have been curtains, but for his sharp reaction.
Founding the Fashion and Textile Museum.
Not doing Diana’s wedding dress.
A quiet moment.
Julien Macdonald, Bobbi Brown, Tuppence Middleton, Zack Polanski, Kathy Lette, Graydon Carter
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