Tina Turner: What do you fear most?

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Vanity Fair, to its interview subject, The Proust Questionnaire

The exact prompt is fixed in Vanity Fair's Proust Questionnaire and independently sustained in The Guardian's The Q&A over multiple decades.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Tina Turner

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I never want to go back; I fought so much through my life, that I have to keep going forward.

The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2023 source ↗

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Carrie Fisher Actor and writer

A bad death . . . fast or slow.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, April 2001 source ↗

Tom Fletcher

I’m afraid of the dark.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 November 2025 source ↗

Jack Whitehall English comedian, actor, presenter and writer

Turning into my father.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 29 April 2023 source ↗

Zadie Smith Novelist and essayist

Violent death. Death generally.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, November 2016 source ↗

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Question What does happiness look like for you when life is going well? Identity & self

Being at one with yourself.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 1 February 2000 source ↗

Question How would you want people to remember you? Death & what remains

As the Queen of Rock’n’Roll. As a woman who showed other women that it is OK to strive for success on their own terms.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2023 source ↗

Question How would you describe what love feels like to you? Relationships

Like a dryer going off in your stomach.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2023 source ↗

Question Which trait in yourself do you like least? Identity & self

I don’t deplore anything about myself, but I am a perfectionist.

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2023 source ↗

Question What trait do you most dislike in other people? Values & belief

Too many times I had people try and make decisions for me. The assumption that I needed that was a big mistake!

Recorded The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 April 2023 source ↗

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