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
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We’ve run out of champagne.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 27 June 2026 source ↗
"You can't see your children for two weeks." (When I was going through my divorce.)
“I’ll tell you later.” They never do.
I was going to a bar with friends and there was a line at the door. I’d been there before and asked the doorman to skip the line. He said, “Oh, I remember you, you were in Almost Famous, weren’t you?” And I said, “Yeah.” And he goes, “Yeah, get back in line.”
People give me a hard time about my hats. Over Christmas, this drunk woman shouted something about me having a shit hat because I had a red beanie on. Last week at a party, someone gave me a hard time for wearing a cap. I just think about melting ice caps when this happens.
I don’t think I’ve ever done a job that I hate. I worked as a temp briefly when I was out of work and it was fun.
I’m very impatient – next question.
Not to be able to do the things that you take for granted, like running up the tube steps or going somewhere under your own steam.
Impatient, funny, worrier.
I cry a lot at films; my mother and I were champion criers at Meet Me in St Louis.
Being run over by a cyclist on a pavement or pedestrian crossing, because it’s nearly happened too frequently.
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