Abi Morgan: What most recently made you cry?

What most recently made you cry?

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.

Recorded Abi Morgan said elsewhere, not written here

Yesterday. Everything seemed impossible.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 October 2015 source ↗

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Bobbi Brown

I teared up when I did a voiceover for my memoir while talking about my mother-in-law, whom I adored and miss so much.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 4 October 2025 source ↗

Sofia Coppola American filmmaker and actress

Two weeks before shooting – after some of our financing dropped out – when the producers said I had to cut a week’s worth of scenes out of my script. I was on location and away from my daughters [currently in middle and high school] who I felt were needing a mother.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 18 March 2023 source ↗

Donny Osmond American singer, dancer, actor, television host

Last Monday was a really emotional day for me: my last son graduated from high school and he’s going on a mission for the Mormon Church soon. I’ve already experienced it four times with my other sons: my oldest went to London, my second son to Italy, my third to Scotland and my fourth the Netherlands. They come back, but the little boy stays out there. He never comes back.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 16 July 2016 source ↗

James Norton English actor