The question
What is the harshest thing anyone has said to you?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.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
I’m not interested.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 30 May 2026 source ↗
That I wouldn’t be successful. Joke’s on them, I guess.
“I could never love you like that.”
The melanoma has returned in your lung.
“Do you know what your problem is?” It was a dear friend of mine. They were referring to the fact that I’m impatient.
Like nothing’s a problem.
I think we’re definitely gone, but I do think people leave traces everywhere from what they did in life, and live on and continue to make an impact through the ripple effect of that.
I’d be happier being myself younger.
Catastrophising.
Pigeons. One got stuck in my flat once for quite a long time and it really changed how I feel about them.
In the back of my mind I just assumed I’d be in a boyband at some point.
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