The question
When were you most embarrassed?Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
A verbatim recurring question in The Guardian's Q&A series.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
When I was a teenager, I laughed at a joke I didn’t understand. Whoever told the joke turned to me and said, “What are you laughing at?” Of course I didn’t know and he obviously knew I didn’t know. It was excruciating.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 6 May 2023 source ↗
That time I congratulated a waitress on being pregnant.
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.
I constantly forget people’s names when they have literally just told me.
An earthquake in Peru forced me and a young man into the street, where he had to introduce me to his family at three in the morning.
Not to take anything for granted.
The early family skiing holidays – before I’d broken an ankle and Gerald had torn a ligament – were just wonderful.
If my children remember me as fondly as I remember my mum, that would be a treat.
Minding not being liked.
Mental cruelty.
The amazing women standing up against the Taliban.
Paapa Essiedu, Olly Alexander, Craig Charles, Sofia Coppola, Rosie Jones, Rita Wilson
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