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 was opening in a play in my 20s, and my agent came on opening night, brought flowers, took me out to dinner and then told me she was no longer going to be representing me.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 1 April 2023 source ↗
“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.”
They tend to say it behind my back.
“What makes you think you are so special?”
Like waves of warm water rippling on to the shores of your heart.
Losing my memory. My mom had Alzheimer’s disease, and I never ever want to have that decline.
I really admire Bonnie Raitt. She is a singer songwriter who has been doing what she has been doing for so many years and she recently won the song of the year Grammy for Just Like That. I loved the validation that creativity never stops, you can keep doing the things that you love.
That you’re stronger than you think you are.
Having breast cancer.
Anything and everything.
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