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.
Modelling in South Korea, aged 19. After a party, I flopped into bed, lit a big candle and balanced it on top of a massive box of matches. I created my own firework display when the candle burnt down and set fire to it. It made the biggest noise ever which, luckily, woke me from my slightly boozy slumber.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 31 August 2019 source ↗
Fifteen years ago, a bacteria went to my heart. For three days they didn’t know if I was going to live or not.
When the media, en masse, reported my imminent demise.
I made a suicide attempt at 12 or 13 years old.
In 2016, the moment my agent rang me to tell me I’d got the part of Hamlet for the RSC. While I was on the phone, I looked to my left and turned to the right, and a bus whizzed by and the wing mirror was so close to me that it knocked my hat off.
As an adult, not having my own horse yet.
My half-electric Volvo.
A full belly and a nice nap.
For making people’s journeys on the M6 a bit easier.
The Hovis ad music.
The ability to walk in high heels.
Bryan Adams, Penny Lancaster, Corinne Bailey Rae, Julien Macdonald, Graham Norton, Joseph Fiennes
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