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 ↗
In a different sense, I’ve helped to try to resuscitate a dead man.
A picnic on the beach at Seaforth during the war. Somehow I managed to wriggle through a barbed-wire fence and run across a minefield. My teenage aunt Kat bravely followed suit and rescued me.
Three squaddies on a train in 1995.
Probably when I didn’t sleep for a week on drugs in 2009. I’d had a lot of meth and my heart felt like it was giving out. I remember climbing over balconies really high up, and I thought I was going to die, until I eventually fell asleep in someone’s garden.
The ability to walk in high heels.
A full belly and a nice nap.
As an adult, not having my own horse yet.
The Hovis ad music.
For making people’s journeys on the M6 a bit easier.
My half-electric Volvo.
Bryan Adams, Penny Lancaster, Corinne Bailey Rae, Julien Macdonald, Graham Norton, Joseph Fiennes
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