Brandi Carlile: 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.

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Recorded Brandi Carlile said elsewhere, not written here

I cried last week after talking about marriage equality with my daughters. My oldest let slip that she believed that if the supreme court overturned Obergefell, she wouldn’t have parents any more. I felt angry with my country and ashamed that I didn’t consider the possibility that she might think that.

The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 November 2025 source ↗

Others on this question

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Scott Mills English radio DJ and television presenter

When I left Radio 1: full snotty sobbing on air.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 October 2022 source ↗

Bryan Cranston American actor

When I think of my mother. After my father left, she became an alcoholic and wallowed in resentment.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 22 October 2016 source ↗

Stockard Channing

At the election of Joe Biden, thinking we were out of the woods. Wrong.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 August 2026 source ↗

Martin Clunes English actor

I often cry when people do things well, like on Britain’s Got Talent; I cried at the old ladies doing finger knitting.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 September 2018 source ↗