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.
That I am a terrible actor.
The Q&A, The Guardian, 28 October 2023 source ↗
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.”
Racial and homophobic slurs – the F- and N-words. When I moved to London, people screamed the F-word from their cars, and that stings.
There are yards and yards and yards of abuse every day. I ignore the lot of it.
It’s that bad, I’d never repeat it. I’ll just say it was particularly cruel and incredibly racist. It was somebody that I used to date, at the end of the relationship, and it hurt very deeply.
Procrastination.
I’ve never got through Ulysses.
Good self-esteem.
Pain and loneliness.
At my mother’s funeral last year.
Recently, sending a negative text about a person to that person.
Fearne Cotton, Pauline Black, Eleanor Tomlinson, Alison Steadman, Peter Sarsgaard, Graham Norton
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